Full financial year for a trading business
Deliverable: A complete set of books for a simulated trading company across twelve months, ending in a trial balance that agrees and a set of final accounts you can explain line by line.
Course
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.
- Duration: 3 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Record every common voucher type correctly and know which one a transaction needs
- Maintain stock with godowns, batches and correct valuation methods
- Compute GST on sales and purchases and prepare GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data
- Handle TDS deduction, payment entries and the related returns data
- Run payroll including attendance, salary structures and statutory deductions
- Produce and interpret trial balance, profit and loss and balance sheet
- Diagnose why a report does not tally and correct the underlying entry
Who this course is for
- Commerce students and graduates entering accounting roles
- Working accounts assistants moving to full accounting responsibility
- Business owners who want to keep their own books correctly
- Basic understanding of debit and credit is helpful but taught from scratch
Syllabus
7 modules · 3 months
Module 1. Accounting foundations in Tally
- Debit, credit and the accounting equation, revisited practically
- Company creation, financial year and feature configuration
- Ledgers, groups and a chart of accounts that will not need rebuilding
- Voucher types and choosing correctly between them
- Day book, ledger reports and drilling into a figure
Module 2. Inventory and stock
- Stock groups, categories, items and units of measure
- Godowns and multi-location stock
- Batch-wise details and expiry tracking
- Valuation methods and their effect on reported profit
- Purchase and sales order flow
Module 3. GST
- GST structure — CGST, SGST, IGST and cess
- Configuring GST at company, ledger and item level
- Intra-state and inter-state transaction entry
- Input tax credit, reverse charge and blocked credits
- GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data preparation from Tally
- Reconciling Tally output against portal data in Excel
- E-way bills and e-invoicing concepts
Module 4. TDS and other statutory work
- TDS sections, thresholds and rates in practice
- Configuring and recording TDS deduction
- Payment entries and challan details
- Return data preparation
Module 5. Payroll
- Employee groups, categories and pay heads
- Salary structures and attendance
- PF, ESI and professional tax deductions
- Payslip generation and payroll reports
Module 6. Banking and reconciliation
- Contra, receipt and payment entries
- Cheque printing and management
- Bank reconciliation statements
- Tracing and resolving a mismatch
Module 7. Finalisation and reporting
- Trial balance and locating errors
- Profit and loss and balance sheet
- Ratio analysis and cash flow
- Year-end adjustments and closing entries
- Data backup, restore and security controls
Tools and technologies you will use
- Tally Prime
- GST portal concepts and return formats
- TDS provisions and rate structures
- Payroll and statutory compliance in Tally
- Excel for reconciliation
Projects you will build
GST return preparation cycle
Deliverable: Three months of GST-applicable transactions with GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data prepared from Tally and reconciled against a supplied portal extract, with differences explained.
Payroll run
Deliverable: A monthly payroll for a simulated staff of fifteen with attendance, statutory deductions and payslips, plus the reports an accountant would hand to management.
Error diagnosis exercise
Deliverable: A deliberately corrupted set of books that you diagnose and correct, with a written note identifying each error, how you found it and what it had affected downstream.
Where this course can take you
- Accounts Executive
- Accounts Assistant
- GST Practitioner (support role)
- Billing Executive
- Audit Assistant
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 3 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Share your details and an advisor will confirm the current fee.
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
Why this course is built around one simulated year
Most Tally courses are menu tours. You are shown where the voucher entry screen is, you enter three transactions, and you move on. Then you reach a real job, meet three hundred transactions and a trial balance that does not agree, and discover you were taught the software but not the work.
So this course is structured around a single simulated trading company that you carry through a full financial year. Every module adds to the same set of books. By the finalisation module you are closing accounts you opened in week two, which means errors you made early actually surface — exactly as they do in a real job.
The error diagnosis project
The fourth project hands you a set of books with deliberate errors in it and asks you to find them.
This is the most disliked and most useful thing we do. In real accounting work, nobody tells you which entry is wrong. You have a report that does not agree and a deadline. Learning to work backwards from a mismatch — narrowing by period, then by group, then by voucher — is the skill that distinguishes someone who can be left alone with a set of books.
About GST
GST rules change. Rates get revised, return formats are updated, and filing procedures evolve.
We teach the structure and the reasoning — how input tax credit works, why reverse charge exists, what makes a supply inter-state — because that is stable even when specifics shift. We also teach reconciliation against portal data in Excel, since that is where real discrepancies are found. Always check current rates and formats against the GST portal before filing.
Questions
Tally Prime with GST — frequently asked questions
Is Tally still in demand with newer cloud accounting software available?
In India, yes, and by a wide margin among small and medium businesses. Cloud tools have gained ground in startups and larger companies, but Tally remains the default across most of the SME market, which is where the majority of entry-level accounting jobs are. Learning it is the pragmatic choice for an Indian accounting career.
Do I need a commerce background for this course?
It helps, but it is not required. The first module covers the accounting logic — debits, credits, ledgers, groups — before touching the software. What matters more is comfort with detail and a willingness to check your own work, since most of the job is noticing when something does not agree.
Will this course prepare me to file GST returns independently?
It prepares you to produce and reconcile the data GST returns are built from, which is the accountant's job in practice. Actually filing on the portal is a short procedural step. We cover the return formats, input tax credit rules and reconciliation against portal data, which is where mistakes actually happen.
What is the difference between Tally ERP 9 and Tally Prime?
Tally Prime is the current generation, with a reworked interface, better navigation and search, and ongoing statutory updates. The underlying accounting logic is the same, so someone who knows ERP 9 adapts within days. We teach Prime because that is what employers are running now.
Enquire about Tally Prime with GST
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
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