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Administration costs are generally understood to be costs that are not directly incurred by a charity in delivering its services.

A charity can make a surplus, providing it is used to further its charitable purposes.  

Charities should put in place good standards of governance and accountability to manage and reduce the risk of terrorism financing, fraud and other forms of abuse.

See Risk management

An Address For Service is the primary address to which the ACNC will send a charity all correspondence.

Members of the public can raise concerns about a registered charity with the ACNC. The ACNC takes all concerns seriously, and investigates where appropriate.

A charity's governing document sets out its charitable purpose, that it operates on a not-for-profit basis and how its governing body makes decisions and consults members.

A not-for-profit is an organisation that does not operate for the profit, personal gain or other benefit of particular people.

An organisation cannot be a charity if it exists for private benefit. Charities must be for the public benefit, which means that they must benefit the general community.

A conflict of interest is when a person's personal interests conflict with their responsibility to act in the best interests of the charity.