Six months of books
Deliverable: Half a financial year of transactions for a trading business entered in Tally and closed to a trial balance, with final accounts you can explain line by line.
Course
Certified Account Professional (CAP)
The shorter accounts programme — Tally, GST, TDS and Excel practised on a real half-year of books, for people who need to be hireable sooner rather than exhaustively trained.
- Duration: 6 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Maintain day-to-day books in Tally accurately and consistently
- Compute GST correctly on sales and purchases and post compliant invoices
- Prepare GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data and reconcile it against the books
- Handle routine TDS deduction and challan workings
- Reconcile a bank statement and explain every difference
- Produce a trial balance and read the resulting final accounts
Who this course is for
- Commerce students and graduates
- Job seekers targeting accounts assistant and executive roles
- Working staff who handle books without formal training
- Debit and credit are taught from scratch
Syllabus
6 modules · 6 months
Module 1. Accounting fundamentals
- Debit, credit and the accounting equation
- Journal, ledger and trial balance
- Subsidiary books and their purpose
- Adjusting entries and depreciation
Module 2. Tally in practice
- Company setup, groups and ledgers
- Voucher entry for the everyday transaction types
- Inventory and stock basics
- Reports, filters and finding an entry again
Module 3. GST in the books
- Supply, place of supply and rate determination
- Input tax credit and when it is available
- GST configuration in Tally and compliant invoicing
- GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data, reconciled to the ledger
Module 4. TDS essentials
- Common sections, rates and thresholds
- Deduction at source and challan preparation
- Certificates and what the deductee needs
- Where mistakes generate notices
Module 5. Banking and reconciliation
- Payment instruments and banking entries
- Preparing a bank reconciliation statement
- Tracing an unexplained difference
- Cash and fund position reporting
Module 6. Excel and reporting
- Lookups, PivotTables and validation
- Receivables and payables ageing
- Building a schedule that agrees with the books
- Presenting a month-end position
Tools and technologies you will use
- Tally Prime
- Microsoft Excel
- GST portal
- Banking and reconciliation statements
Projects you will build
GST return workings
Deliverable: GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data prepared from your own posted invoices and reconciled against the books, with any difference identified and explained.
Reconciliation and ageing pack
Deliverable: A bank reconciliation statement resolving a genuine difference, plus a receivables ageing analysis built in Excel that ties back to the Tally ledger.
Where this course can take you
- Accounts Assistant
- Accounts Executive
- Billing Executive
- GST Assistant
- Data Entry Operator, accounts
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 6 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Ask about the upgrade path if you decide to continue into the nine-month CIA programme.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
The short road to employable
Nine months is the right answer for someone building a career in industry accounts. It is the wrong answer for someone who needs a job this year.
CAP exists for the second person. It covers the four things an accounts department actually asks a new hire to do — keep the books in Tally, get GST right, handle routine TDS, and reconcile the bank — and it does them on a real half-year of transactions rather than on exercises.
What it leaves out is payroll, cost centres and the deeper statutory work. Those are in the CIA programme, and you can add them later.
Reconciled, not just entered
Entering vouchers is the part everybody can do.
Reconciling — making the GST return agree with the ledger, making the bank statement agree with the cash book, finding the one entry causing a difference — is the part that separates a hire from an applicant. Two of the three projects are specified around exactly that, including one where the numbers genuinely do not match and you have to find out why.
Being clear about the certificate
This is a Samyak certificate. It is not statutory, and it is not CA or CMA.
Those are professional qualifications with their own bodies and examinations, and nothing taught here substitutes for them. What this does is make you useful in an accounts department quickly, which is a real and immediate outcome — just a different one.
Filing versus preparing
The course takes you to accurate, reconciled return data.
Filing itself is usually done by a practitioner or under one, and the portal changes often enough that memorising this year’s screens is a poor use of your time. Knowing the law’s structure, preparing correct data and being able to spot when something does not tie is what stays valuable.
Questions
Certified Account Professional (CAP) — frequently asked questions
Should I take CAP or the Certified Industrial Accountant programme?
CAP is six months and covers the core — Tally, GST, TDS, banking and Excel. CIA runs nine months and adds payroll, deeper statutory work, cost centres and a full year of finalisation. If you need to be employable sooner, take CAP. If you want to run an accounts department rather than assist in one, take CIA.
Do I need a commerce degree?
No. The first module builds debit and credit from nothing, and people from other streams complete this regularly. Commerce students will move faster through the opening weeks, which is why some choose to start at the second module — tell us your background and we will place you honestly.
Is the certificate government recognised?
No — it is an institute certificate issued by Samyak. It is not a statutory qualification and it is not equivalent to CA or CMA. What it is meant to do is make you employable in an accounts department, and the finished books from the projects are what carry that weight in an interview.
Will I be able to file GST returns after this?
You will be able to prepare the data accurately and reconcile it to the books, which is the part employers hire for. Actual filing is usually done by or under a practitioner, and the portal mechanics change often enough that the course teaches you to check the current process rather than memorise last year's screens.
Enquire about Certified Account Professional (CAP)
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- Certified Industrial Accountant (CIA)
The full accounts-department skill set in one programme — Tally, GST, TDS, payroll, banking and reporting — practised across a complete financial year rather than as separate topics.
- Tally Prime with GST
Tally Prime taught through a full simulated financial year — vouchers, inventory, GST, TDS and payroll — so you finish having actually kept a set of books, not just clicked through menus.
- GST Practitioner
GST taught as reconciliation work rather than as rules to memorise, because the job is finding why your books and the portal disagree — and that is where mistakes cost money.
- Advanced Excel
The Excel that offices actually run on — lookup logic, PivotTables, Power Query pipelines, dashboards and enough VBA to automate the work you repeat every month.
Next step
Talk to a course advisor
Tell us what you want to learn and we will help you pick the right course, batch and mode.