Xero for Good: Financial Fitness

This page, published by Xero, introduces Financial Fitness, a free program helping small business owners build financial confidence and capability. It includes short videos, toolkits and guides designed to fit into a busy week, alongside a self-assessment quiz and free mentoring matched with volunteer accountants and bookkeepers.

The program is grounded in Xero's own research into Australia's small business financial fitness gap, drawing on surveys of 750 business owners and 500 accountants and bookkeepers. It finds that many business owners lack confidence in basic financial tasks, such as knowing whether they turned a profit, even when they have the underlying capability, and explores what it would take to close that gap.

It's useful for small business owners wanting practical, bite-sized financial education and mentoring, and for accountants or bookkeepers interested in volunteering as mentors.