Basic Tally is one of India's most in-demand practical accounting skills, with TallyPrime being the preferred accounting software across small businesses, trading firms, manufacturing units, and service organizations nationwide. This comprehensive course is designed to take learners from foundational concepts of the marketplace and bookkeeping through to confident, hands-on application of accounting principles using TallyPrime in real business scenarios. Structured as a course spanning 60 sessions, the course follows a progressive learning architecture — each session builds logically upon the previous one.
- Session 1 –15 establishes the essential foundations of accounting: understanding the marketplace, financial management, source documents, accounting principles, and an introduction to TallyPrime.
- Session 16 - 30 advances learners into the practical maintenance of books of accounts in Tally, covering voucher types, sales and purchase recording, banking operations, and GST configuration.
- Session 31 - 45 develops analytical capabilities, covering financial statement analysis, ratio analysis across service, manufacturing and trading organizations, budgets, GST framework, depreciation, working capital, and personal finance.
- Session 46-60 applies all learnings through an end-to-end retail business case study, taking learners from business setup through inventory, MSME compliance, GST accounting, and advanced Tally reporting features. Every session is supported by session objectives, applied demonstrations using real business scenarios, and case studies drawn from actual Indian business contexts, ensuring learners are not just conceptually aware but operationally capable of maintaining books of accounts independently.
Objectives of the Course
The primary aim of this course is to equip learners with the full spectrum of accounting competencies using TallyPrime — from understanding the marketplace and foundational bookkeeping through to practical transaction recording, financial analysis, GST compliance, and end-to-end business accounting in real organizational contexts. Upon completion, learners will be capable of independently setting up, maintaining, and reporting on a complete set of books of accounts using TallyPrime.
Foundational Objectives – First 15 Sessions (Understanding the Marketplace)
- Understand the concept of a marketplace, types of organizations, and the purpose of maintaining books of accounts, with clarity on the distinction between single entry and double entry systems.
- Explain the difference between cash basis and accrual basis of bookkeeping, and identify the reports generated from bookkeeping in a business context.
- Describe the meaning and responsibilities of financial management, including sources and uses of funds, working capital cycle, fixed capital, and petty cash management across small, large, and multinational organizations.
- Identify and interpret key source documents used in business transactions — including sales invoices, purchase orders, delivery challans, goods received notes, debit notes, credit notes, expense vouchers, and bank reconciliation statements.
- Apply the fundamental principles of accounting — including Entity Concept, Going Concern, Matching, Accrual, Prudence, Materiality, and Dual Effect — and distinguish between capital and revenue expenditure and income.
- Install TallyPrime, navigate its interface, create a company, and configure F11 features for accounting, inventory, and taxation as required by a business.
- Apply the Golden Rules of Accounting to record cash and credit transactions, understand types of accounts, and prepare journal entries and subsidiary books including sales return and purchase return books.
- Post transactions to ledgers, prepare a trial balance, and perform ledger scrutiny for expenses, income, assets, and liabilities.
- Prepare and interpret financial statements including the Profit and Loss Account, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, and Notes to Accounts for different types of organizations — sole proprietorship, partnership, trust, company, and bank.
- Understand the Indian taxation system including direct taxes, TDS provisions across salary, contractor payments, professional services, commission, rent and interest, TDS compliance, Form 16/16A, and the concept and types of audits.
- Manage debtors and creditors — including credit periods, reconciliation statements, bill-wise entries, ledger scrutiny, and the role of credit rating agencies.
- Record a complete set of transactions for a packaged food products supplier including salary payments, debtor collections, TDS workings, trial balance preparation, and financial statement generation.
- Understand inventory concepts including components, valuation methods, cost sheets, manufacturing accounts, variable and fixed costs, and set up inventory masters in TallyPrime including stock groups, categories, godowns, units of measurement, and stock items.
Intermediate Objectives (Session 16 – 30 — Maintenance of Information in Books of Accounts)
- Set up accounting masters in TallyPrime including accounting groups, sub-groups, ledgers, and chart of accounts, and classify transactions correctly for a sole proprietorship and wholesaler business.
- Create and manage voucher types in TallyPrime, record vouchers, and understand the relationship between physical books — cash book, journal, ledger, and subsidiary books — and their Tally equivalents.
- Generate and interpret key Tally reports including Trial Balance, Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Report, Income and Expenditure Account, and understand the flow from trial balance to financial statements.
- Record purchase and sale transactions using purchase and sales vouchers, handle supporting processes, and distinguish between types of purchases and sales with practical case studies.
- Record receipt and payment transactions — cash, bank transfer, and cheque — and prepare Bank Reconciliation Statements for both receipts and payments.
- Implement bill-wise entry for sundry debtors and creditors in TallyPrime, track outstanding bills, and manage payments and receipts against specific bill references.
- Use contra vouchers for cash deposits and interbank transfers, and record journal vouchers for depreciation, write-offs, provisions, prepaid expenses, reserves, and opening entries.
- Understand and apply accounting standards (AS 1–29), IndAS, IFRS, and ICAI publications, and handle foreign exchange transactions including forex market concepts and authorized dealer rules.
- Identify banking products, types of loans, and banking documents, and prepare stock statements, debtor statements, and creditor statements for bank submission.
- Understand export finance concepts including IEC code, SEZ, EOU, bank guarantees, and relevant government trade portals.
- Set up bank ledgers in TallyPrime, record banking vouchers, print cheques, maintain a cheque register, handle post-dated transactions, and perform manual bank reconciliation.
- Configure GST in TallyPrime — including party masters, stock item masters, ledger masters — and record intrastate and interstate inward and outward supply transactions.
Analytical Objectives (Session 31 - 45 — Analysis of Books of Accounts)
- Prepare and interpret common-size balance sheets and income statements and perform vertical common-size analysis using Tally.
- Conduct comparative financial statement analysis and trend analysis for profit and loss of accounts and balance sheets and use exception reports in Tally for corrections.
- Calculate and interpret all major categories of financial ratios — profitability, expense, shareholder, liquidity, solvency, and turnover ratios — and apply ratio analysis within Tally.
- Perform complete ratio analysis of a service sector organization using the case of LKP Consultants and Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited, covering trend analysis, income statement analysis, balance sheet analysis, and business projections.
- Perform complete ratio analysis of a manufacturing organization using the case of Nisar Enterprises and Asian Paints Limited, including common-size statements and Tally-based analysis.
- Perform complete ratio analysis of a trading organization using the case of Pradnya Food Products, and apply basic Excel skills for grouping expenses, FD registers, workbook management, and fixed asset registers.
- Understand budgets — types, preparation, and variance analysis — and configure and track budgets in TallyPrime including account group and ledger budget setup and budget variance reports.
- Record and correct complex banking transactions in TallyPrime including advance adjustments, bill references, sales invoice corrections, and goods return corrections.
- Understand the complete GST framework in India — evolution, cascading effect, dual GST structure, concept of supply, time of supply, ITC mechanism, registration, composition scheme, applicable rates, and GST returns.
- Record and account for all types of GST transactions — intrastate and interstate purchases and sales, service supply, purchase and sales returns — and compute GST tax liability and applicable returns.
- Identify and correct common GST errors in TallyPrime — missing configurations, ledger regrouping, inventory setup errors, party master errors, and purchase and sales error corrections.
- Account for transactions under the composition scheme, including bill of supply, ITC restrictions, and GST liability computation for composite dealers.
- Apply methods of depreciation as per Income Tax Act and Companies Act, record depreciation entries in TallyPrime, and maintain fixed asset schedules.
- Understand working capital management — components, turnover ratios, international trade context — and prepare working capital statements for a trading organization.
- Apply personal finance concepts including investment avenues, goal setting, compounding, mutual fund ranking, and LIC products.
Applied Objectives (Session 46 – Session 60 — Application of Accounting Principles)
- Set up a complete retail business in TallyPrime from scratch — including company creation, F11 feature configuration, ledger setup for sales, purchases, income, expenses, debtors, creditors, voucher types, number series, and point of sales vouchers.
- Configure a complete inventory system for a retail business including stock groups, categories, units of measurement, godown setup, stock item creation, multi-master creation, and inventory chart of accounts.
- Ensure MSME compliance by setting up MSME data, updating debtor and creditor master's with MSME details, recording business investment, and managing cash and bank accounts with contra transactions.
- Record all phases of retail business accounting — business setup expenses, consultancy charges, secured and unsecured loans, purchase of trading and capital goods, petty cash management, and trial balance verification.
- Handle debit notes, credit notes, purchase returns, sales returns, rate difference adjustments, sales invoice printing configuration, daybook reports, and sales and purchase register analysis.
- Record advanced accounting transactions including advance payments and receipts, part loan payments, stock consumption, and generate financial reports including ratio analysis and dashboard reports in TallyPrime.
- Amend Tally data for GST compliance, update masters with GSTIN, record local and interstate GST transactions for both goods and services, handle purchase and sales returns with GST, and generate GSTR1 and GSTR3B reports.
- Record year-end adjusting entries including prepaid expenses, outstanding expenses, bad debts, discount rebates, and depreciation, and generate ledger vouchers, confirmation statements, payment advice, and outstanding reports.
- Use advanced Tally features including cancelled and deleted vouchers, optional vouchers, cash and fund flow reports, bank reconciliation, account and inventory book registers, exception reports, multi-account printing, and statistics reports.
- Apply Tally to a pathology laboratory case study — recording business fund introduction, equipment purchases, rent and deposit, cash and corporate sales, staff salary provisions, and generating financial reports.
- Apply Tally to a cash-intensive business case study — recording opening balances, cash purchases, advance receipts, daily cash collections, sales against advances, and generating cash and bank ledger summaries.
- Implement bill-wise receivable and payable management — setting up billwise features, recording opening debtors and creditors, tracking new references and against-reference transactions, and generating outstanding reports.
- Apply advanced Tally features including security controls, actual vs billed quantity, discount details, voucher classes, multiple address invoice printing, monthly expense provisions, bad debt provisioning, and inventory adjustments.