A full simulated financial year
Deliverable: Twelve months of sales, purchase, payment, receipt and journal entries for a trading business, closed to a trial balance, profit and loss statement and balance sheet you can explain line by line.
Course
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.
- Duration: 9 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Maintain a complete set of books from opening balances to finalisation
- Compute GST on sales and purchases and prepare GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data
- Handle TDS deduction, deposit and return data correctly
- Run payroll including attendance, salary structures and statutory deductions
- Reconcile bank statements and resolve differences to root cause
- Produce and interpret trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet
Who this course is for
- Commerce students and graduates
- Anyone working in or applying to an accounts department
- Business owners who want to keep their own books properly
- Basic understanding of debit and credit is helpful but is taught from scratch
Syllabus
8 modules · 9 months
Module 1. Accounting foundations
- Debit, credit and the accounting equation
- Journal, ledger and trial balance
- Books of original entry and subsidiary books
- Depreciation, provisions and adjusting entries
Module 2. Computerised accounting in Tally
- Company creation, groups and ledger masters
- Voucher types and everyday transaction entry
- Inventory, stock groups, godowns and batches
- Cost centres and cost categories
Module 3. GST
- Registration, supply and place of supply
- Input tax credit and its conditions
- Configuring GST in Tally and posting compliant invoices
- Preparing GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data and reconciling with books
Module 4. TDS and statutory compliance
- Sections, rates and thresholds
- Deduction, deposit and challan
- Return data preparation and Form 16 and 16A
- Common notices and what causes them
Module 5. Payroll
- Salary structure, allowances and deductions
- Attendance, leave and payroll processing in Tally
- Provident fund, ESI and professional tax
- Payslips, registers and statutory returns
Module 6. Banking and reconciliation
- Payment modes, instruments and banking entries
- Bank reconciliation statement, prepared properly
- Investigating a difference to root cause
- Cash flow and fund position
Module 7. Excel for accountants
- Lookups, PivotTables and data validation
- Building a schedule that ties to the books
- Ageing analysis for receivables and payables
- Presenting figures to a manager
Module 8. Finalisation and reporting
- Year-end adjustments and closing entries
- Trial balance to final accounts
- Reading a balance sheet critically
- Audit preparation and what an auditor will ask for
Tools and technologies you will use
- Tally Prime
- Microsoft Excel
- GST portal
- TDS return utilities
- Banking and reconciliation statements
Projects you will build
GST and TDS compliance set
Deliverable: GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data prepared from your own books and reconciled against them, plus TDS deduction workings and challan detail for a quarter.
Payroll cycle
Deliverable: One month of payroll processed for at least ten employees including attendance, statutory deductions and payslips, with the resulting accounting entries posted.
Bank reconciliation with a real difference
Deliverable: A reconciliation where the statement and the books disagree, investigated to the actual cause and documented in a note a manager would accept.
Where this course can take you
- Accounts Executive
- Accountant
- Accounts Assistant
- GST Practitioner
- Payroll Executive
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 9 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Ask about the instalment options available for the nine-month 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
A year of books, not a list of topics
Most accounting courses teach GST on Tuesday, TDS on Thursday, and leave the student to work out how they meet.
They meet in a set of books, which is why this programme runs one continuous simulated business across the whole nine months. The GST you compute is on invoices you posted. The TDS is on payments you made. The bank reconciliation is against the cash book you have been maintaining since month two.
By the end you have closed a financial year, and that is a materially different claim from having attended modules on eight subjects.
What an interview actually tests
Almost every candidate for an accounts role can enter a sales voucher.
Far fewer can be handed a trial balance and explain why a figure sits where it does, or say what they would check first when a reconciliation will not close. That is the level this programme aims at, and it is the reason the projects are specified as finished books rather than exercises.
What it is not
It is not a chartered or cost accountancy qualification and we will not blur that line.
CA and CMA are statutory professional courses with their own bodies and examinations, and nothing here substitutes for them. This is a practical programme that makes you useful in an accounts department quickly. Plenty of people take it while studying for those exams, and plenty take it instead and build a career in industry accounts.
Rules change, structure does not
GST rates move. TDS thresholds move. Anybody teaching them as memorised facts is preparing you to be confidently wrong in eighteen months.
So the compliance modules teach how the law is structured and where to verify the current position, alongside the current numbers. Knowing where to look is the part that stays useful.
Questions
Certified Industrial Accountant (CIA) — frequently asked questions
How is this different from just doing the Tally course?
The Tally course teaches the software. This teaches the job — the software plus GST, TDS, payroll, banking and finalisation, practised across a full year of books. If you only need to operate Tally, take the shorter course. If you want to be the person who runs an accounts department, this is the programme built for that.
Do I need a commerce background?
It helps but is not required. The first module teaches debit, credit and the accounting equation from scratch. What you do need is comfort with numbers and the patience to check your own work, because accounting is unforgiving about small errors and this course does not pretend otherwise.
Is CIA a government or statutory qualification?
No. This is an institute programme and the certificate is issued by Samyak. It is not a statutory qualification and it does not make you a chartered accountant or a cost accountant — those are separate professional courses with their own examinations and bodies. It makes you employable in an accounts department, which is a different and more immediate thing.
Will this help me get a job in an accounts department?
It is built for exactly that, and the closed set of books is the reason. Most candidates arrive able to enter vouchers. Very few arrive having closed a full year and able to explain how the balance sheet came together, and that difference is visible in an interview within minutes.
Are GST and TDS rules kept current?
Rates and thresholds change, so the course teaches the structure of the law and where to check the current position rather than only the numbers as of today. Anyone who teaches you a rate as a fact rather than a lookup is setting you up to be wrong next year.
Enquire about Certified Industrial Accountant (CIA)
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Related courses
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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