FrontAccounting should generally work out of the box and if you want to support the project, then you can use the slightly older but more stable version hosted by the project devs for a small fee at http://my.frontaccounting.com . Unless you state what you are familiar with - computerese, academic accounting, shopfloor experience, banking, manual tax preparation, etc, you will find it difficult to find the right consultant. It boils down to what you want to accept online and what you wish to "possess" and what you want to offload to third parties - in short what is the level of trust you wish to delegate and whether you intend to work on making up your current lack of specific skills to take on the mantle of full responsibility sometime.
Once you have your Chart of Account setup (there is an AU CoA within FA and you can modify it with the help of your local CPA), you can fill in the Setup tab menu's various forms like Company Setup, etc after you create a new company for your business. Keep the default company (Company 0) as your control company and for all working purposes use a newly created one.
Then setup your customers, suppliers, items and manufacturing assembly kits. Import your last balance sheet (and inventory stock) values as a single journal voucher into the last day of the previous year and then close that year and start on your new active current year.
Several links in the wiki point to tutorials about accounting in general and FrontAccounting operations in particular. If there are any specifics you are unable to fathom, we can try to address it by explaining it better in the wiki. That way newbies in the future too can benefit from it.
Please search for any FA support group in your locality (where in AU?) and if you still cannot find one who is cost effective then checkout the nearest one in the support page in the wiki.
