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UNIT – I
LESSON –1: TALLY FEATURES
CONTENTS
1.0 Aim and Objectives
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Tally User Classification
1.2.1 Single user - Silver
1.2.2 Multi user – Gold
1.3 Tally Activation Form
1.4 General features
1.5 Accounting feature
1.5.1 Comprehensive accounting system
1.5.2 Categorization of account
1.5.3 Ledger group administration
1.5.4 Audit trail, Drill down display
1.5.5 Extracting reports
1.5.6 Bank reconciliation
1.6 Inventory features
1.6.1 Stock group, category and classification
1.6.2 Physical stock position
1.6.3 Stock transfer, adjustments
1.6.4 Multiple godowns, stock evolution
1.6.5 Multiple rate price lists
1.6.6 Actual bill quantity
1.6.7 Tracking through receipts/delivery notes
1.7 Accounting and Inventory management
1.8 Let us sum up
1.9 Points for discussion
1.10 Check your progress
1.11 Lesson-end activities
1.0 AIM AND OBJECTIVES
In this Unit we will discuss the origin and features of Tally accounting software and the
Accounting and Inventory features. After going through this unit, you will be able to,
i. Describe Origin of the Tally Division
ii. List down the User Classification
iii. Explain Comprehensive Accounting System
iv. Discuss Accounting and Inventory Management System
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Tally is versatile and massive software package. It is used by various types of trade and
industry. Tally Software business was set up in 1986 by late S.S. Goenka, who was the founder
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of the company Peutronics Private Limited., Bangalore. He mentors his son Bharat Goenkar in
creating software that would handle the financial accounts for his business. Bharat Goenkar
spends a lot of months to develop path breaking technology. Tally is user friendly software used
to solve all the complicated accounting structure.
Bharat Goenkar is the original architect and programmer of the Tally Accounting systems
and also developer of the “No-Code” concepts of accounting entities. Tally is a globally
recognized name with 2 million users in over 90 countries experiencing the “Power of
Simplicity”. This value is reflected in innovative, uncomplicated and customer-centric approach.
Tally recognizes its own format in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information
Interchange) from which data can be imported into Tally. To export your database file
application to tally, you have to export data in tally acceptable format in ASCII. The milestone
statement of the Tally division is “Continuously doing the right thing”.
1.2 TALLY USER CLASIFICATION
Tally ies (integrated enterprise solution) 7.2 provides you with two specific classification
Licensing. They are
Ø Tally Silver for Single –User
Ø Tally Gold for Multi-User
1.2 .1 TALLY SILVER FOR SINGLE-USER
The single-user Licensing allows the consumption of Tally on only one computer with an
option of activating it online or offline. However, you can use the same Tally license on another
computer, by granting the license activated on the first and reactivating it on the other. If you are
an Offline user, you can take a request file to a computer, which has Internet connectivity and
activate your copy of Tally easily.
1.2.2 TALLY GOLD FOR MULTI-USER
The multi-user Licensing feature facilitates the use of Tally on any number of computers
connected to a local area network (LAN) with a provision of activating the license online or
offline. However, the method of activation is no different from the one followed in Single User
licensing system. After the successful installation of multi-user license on the License server,
you can have Tally start when Windows starts and run as a service in the background. The
License clients may install and use Tally later on.
1.3 TALLY ACTIVATION FORM
Activation Form
The first time you run Tally after installation, the Activation Form dialog window will be
displayed in both Single User and Multi User licensing systems.

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Enter your Serial Key and E-mail Id (If you are connected to Internet). Else, press Esc or
Ctrl+Q to quit this form.(if you are not connected to Internet)
1.4 GENERAL FEATURES
i. The new option directory have been introduced to specify Data Directory
in the Company Creation Screen.
ii. To keep data for one company in one drive/ directory
iii. Tally lock storage device is used to share the information quickly
iv. Tally vault is used to keep the data in encrypted format instead of Normal form
v. All the profitability reports, invoice wise reports, item wise reports , godown wise
reports are summarized easily
vi. Display all vouchers for a grouping method
vii. Income and expenditure statement also available to view Profit and loss account
viii. Using the Tally Defined Language, we customize the user friendly environment
to the organization.
ix. Tally is availability on windows 95, 98, XP, 2000, NT and Linux. This software is run
on single personal computer, LAN and WAN. If on a Network supports access via any
combination of platforms.
x. Tally is now Web Enabled. While working with tally you can browse by clicking the
browser button
1.5 ACCOUNTING FEATURE
Accounting has been defined as the art of recording, classifying and summarizing
monetary money transaction in a significant manner. Tally maintain ledger wise balance and
display net debit or credit balance for a ledger. Using Reverse journal to make transient journal
vouchers to get intermediate Profit and Loss and Balance sheet. Tally offers numerous options
for interest calculation. While simple mode meets need of average users, advance mode is meant
for users having complex requirement like penal interest.

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1.5.1 COMPREHENSIVE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM
Tally is complete Accounting system. It handles different types of vouchers, for example,
Payments, Receipts, Journals, Debit Notes, Sales, Purchase, Delivery note and etc. Accounts
Receivables is the amount to be received from Sundry Debtors and Accounts Payable is the
amount payable to Sundry Creditors. Tally provides complete bill wise information of amounts
receivable as well as payable either Party wise or Group wise. Activate ‘Bill Wise' details by
pressing F11 (Features). Now Create a Party (Ledger A/c) under the group ‘Sundry Debtors' as
well as one under group ‘Sundry Creditors', and also activate ‘Maintain balances bill by bill' for
all the Parties while you are in Ledger creation mode.
1.5.2 CATEGORIZATION OF ACCOUNTS
Tally allows the user to define account heads as per his requirements. Tally offers 28
predefined widely used Groups. Of these 28 predefined groups 15 groups are Primary groups and
the remaining 13 are sub groups. Among the 15 predefined groups 9 Groups are Balance Sheet
items and the remaining 6 groups are Profit and Loss items. The user is allowed to alter the
arrangement of any of these 28 Groups. Further the user is allowed to create any number of
Groups as per his/her requirements, which can either be a Primary or a Sub-Group. Tally also
allows the user to have a multiple tree like structure groupings. This flexibility and ease of
configuration allows Tally to be used across industries and geography.
1.5.3 LEDGER GROUP ADMINISTRATION
Tally maintains details of all ledgers that are defined by the user. You can define your chart
of accounts that is maintain groups, ledger etc. Ledger reports can be used for scrutiny of
accounts. Most accounting systems across the globe follow the concept of separate Personal and
Nominal accounts. Tally follows the concept of single ledger systems, which includes both
Personal and Nominal accounts.
1.5.4 AUDIT TRAIL AND DRILL DOWN DISPLAY
Tally allows users to Drill Down from any report to lower levels of reports till the voucher.
For example, user can view a Balance sheet and then select the required group in the Balance
Sheet and drill down till the vouchers. Any changes then made in the voucher (i.e. if allowed by
current security levels), is reflected real time at all levels.
1.5.5 EXTRACTING REPORTS
Tally allows users to select any report for a particular date or for any range of dates. Once
you have selected a Report, press F2 (F2 in case of Day Book) and specify the date range (From
and to). You can also do simultaneous comparison side by side for any two selected periods
including across financial years. All reports from Tally are generated based on the transaction
date rather than the date of actual entry and hence Tally ensures that information is always
represented accurately. This unique approach to bank reconciliation allows review of past date
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Tally provides columnar reports in Sales register, Purchase Register and Journal registers as
well as Ledgers and Cash / Bank Books.
1.5.6 BANK RECONCILIATION
Tally provides the user a facility to reconcile bank accounts with his bank passbook
statement and hence providing the user with information regarding transactions, which haven't
been cleared as yet by the bank. For bank reconciliation follow the procedure: Firstly, while
creating “Bank Account” Ledger, specify ‘Effective date of reconciliation' (i.e the date from
which the user wants to reconcile his bank accounts). Then, Select Display à Account Books à
Bank Book à Select the particular ‘Bank’ a Select month à Press F5 (Reconcile). Now enter
the date, on which a particular transaction has been cleared. Tally now provides information of
balances as per company Books as well as Bank pass book/statement.
1.6 INVENTORY FEATURES
Tally meets special requirements for computation of Excise Duty and information in
Invoice-Cum Gate Pass. It provides options to configure the system according to the applicability
of Excise duty provision. In case of purchase the additional cost may be allocated to items to
arrive at the effective cost of purchase also known as Landing cost. Tally provides you the basic
feature and quotations through optional voucher system.
1.6.1 STOCK GROUP AND STOCK CATEGORY CLASSIFICATION
Like accounts Ledger, Stock Items take part in all inventory Transactions. For better
organization of the hundreds & thousands of Stock items that may be stocked & traded in an
organization, you may organize them in stock groups and stock Categories. The relationship
between stock item and stock group is similar to that of Accounts Ledger and Accounts groups.
Normally, stock groups will be sufficient for most of the organizations for managing the
inventory reports in an organized manner. However, some organization may need an alternative
way to find out items of similar nature. For that, Tally provides a build up a parallel method of
organizing the items in stock categories.
1.6.2 PHYSICAL STOCK POSITION
Stock discrepancy is one of the mystical that have been intriguing the accountants for a long
time. You may sell 20 Kg of lemon after purchasing 20 Kg, and still may have 200 grams left in
your stock. Or after selling 5Kg of sugar out of 6 Kg bought, you may have paltry 800 grams
left. This is a part of life. To adjust such kind of real life dilemma, Tally has introduced a sort of
novel voucher called physical stock voucher.
1.6.3 STOCK TRANSFER AND ADJUSTMENTS
Tally provides stock journal voucher to move items from one Godown to another, dismantle
an item into its components or to assemble the components.

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1.6.4 MULTIPLE GODOWNS STOCK EVOLUTION
Tally not only allows to create multiple godowns, but even create sub godowns , nest into
any level – thus you logically built factories, warehouses, godowns to organize and get
summarized total for each level. You can treat the godowns as stackable or non-stackable and
also to keep their stock separate and have separate valuation.
For multiple stock valuations Tally provides multiple methods for stock items like Average
unit cost, LIFO (Last in First Out), FIFO (First in First Out), Average price etc. Default valuation
methods can be specified at the time of creation of stock items. You can get final accounts with
stock valued in selected valuation method.
1.6.5 MULTIPLE RATE PRICE LISTS
Tally allows creating multiple price lists with alternative rates (retail, wholesale) and you
can specify rates and discounts for each item for each type of price list with quantity slabs.
1.6.6 ACTUAL BILL QUANTITY
You may deliver a different quantity but have to bill for a different quantity (for example, 1
packet of Horlicks pouch free with 5 packet of Horlicks Pouch – Delivered 6 packet, Billing 5
packet). You can enter both quantities, actual to update stock and billed for computation of
invoice.
1.6.7 TRACKING THROUGH RECEIPTS AND DELIVERY NOTES
In many businesses, goods are dispatched first and invoices are sent later or vice versa. In
such cases stocks should not be updated along with the accounts. Tally tracks such situation with
the help of tracking nos. you can receive /dispatch goods first and receive or send invoices later
or invoices first and material later. Receipt/Delivery notes updates inventory but will not affect
accounts. Tally track pending tracking document and displays in Profit and Loss as apart of
purchases and sales as sales / purchase as bills to make.
1.7 ACCOUNTING & INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
Accounts cum Inventory are normally used by traders. This option basically affects
Accounts. If you set this option to Yes, the value of stock is automatically computed on the basis
of inventory and posted in the balance sheet; Profit & Loss Account and you are not allowed to
input the stock value on your own as the Accounts are integrated with the Inventory part. Each
Transaction is entered through voucher. In a voucher, you first make the accounting entries,
followed by Inventory allocation requiring prior computation of Bill Value. If you set this option
to Yes, you can enter sales transactions in Invoice mode also.
Bills can be entered in following modes:
· Voucher Mode
· Invoice Mode

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In Invoice mode , upon selecting the buyer , you first enter inventory particulars like item
name, Quantity , Unit , Rate etc, sales value is auto computed , next you enter the accounting
entries for sales account. Tax and Additional charges are computed as per your specification and
Buyers ledger account is debited with the total amount. Some additional options like Excise
Format, entering additional description for item name, separate Buyer and Consignee name etc.
are available in Invoice mode only. If you want to enter in invoice mode, respond yes. If you
respond No, you will be restricted to enter sales Transactions in Voucher mode only.
1.8 LET US SUM UP
In this unit, we have briefly touched upon the following points.
1. Tally accounting software origin and founder of the tally division
2. Limited user classification like single user and multi user work environment activation
form
3. Tally provides a comprehensive solution to the accounting need of business. The package
comprises, book-keeping, financial accounting, inventory accounting and number of tools
for extracting information.
4. A powerful feature of Tally allows you to create a personalized chart of accounts to
reflect the nature of the business
5. Tally allows to import data from other software as well as export data from tally
6. Tally maintained the inventory transaction, Accounting transaction and Accounts with
Inventory transaction easily.
1.9 POINTS FOR DISCUSSION
The following questions are making to induce the basic computerized systems of
accounting.
1) Justify “ Computerized Accounting System” and “ Manual Accounting System ”
2) Substantiate “Computer is an Electronic Device used to simplified the Accounts”
3) Establish “ Computer is an Error Free Calculating Device”
4) Analyze “All the Companies or Institution need the computer ”
5) Evaluate “Essential components of Tally Software”
1.10 CHECK YOUR PROGRESS
A. State any two advantages of Tally Accounting Software
B. What is the use of web Enabled Service?
(Write your answer in the space given below)
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1.11 LESSON END ACTIVITIES
1. Define the term accounts.
2. Explain the general features of tally.
3. What is meant by stock group and stock category classification.
4. What is meant by accounting & inventory management?
5. Discuss the accounting features.

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LESSON – 2: TALLY SCREEN COMPONETS
CONTENTS
2.0 Aim and objectives
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Starting Tally Environment
2.3 Tally Screen Classification
2.3.1 Product Information
2.3.2 Work Area
2.3.3 Button Bar
2.3.4 Calculator
2.4 Switching between Screen Areas
2.5 Mouse and Keyboard Interaction
2.6 Button Bar Hot Key combination
2.6.1 Help Button
2.6.2 Web browser Button
2.6.3 Upload Button
2.6.4 Email Button
2.6.5 Export Button
2.6.6 Print Button
2.7 Gateway of Tally Menu
2.8 Selection of Menu Option
2.9 Let us Sum Up
In Unit 1 we discussed the screen components of the Tally package. Here we discuss the
individual parts of the tally working environment. After going through the unit, you will be able to,
i. Describe the Tally opening screen methods
ii. List down the feature of Hotkey combination
iii. Explain the Gateway of Tally panel
iv. Discuss the feature of web browser button functions.
2.1 INTRODUCTION
An attractive splash screen appears. It is a user friendly screen. All the parts of the windows
are fabricated with four divisions. Gate way of Tally is arranged in the form of Tree view
structure. All the transaction entries are made in Gateway of tally. This is the entry division of
your transaction.
2.2 STARTING TALLY ENVIRONMENT
After install the tally software. We are ready to work with the Tally environment. The
following methods are used to activate the tally screen.

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Method 1
Start à Programs àTally ies 7.2 à Tally 7.2
(At start menu, select program > Tally ies 7.2>Tally 7.2 or Explore the Tally
Program folder (either through Windows Explore or My Computer), double
click the program file (Tally 7.2)
Method 2
Double click the Tally shortcut icons on Desktop
Method 3
Select Run from Start Menu, enter the Drive, path and the executable File Name.
(The exe file for Tally ies 7.2 is tally72. for example, “D:tally72.exe”)
2.3 TALLY SCREEN CLASSIFICATION
The Gateway of Tally screen can be divided into 4 parts as marked in the below figure.
(1) Product Info, (2) Work Area, (3) Button Bar, (4) Calculator
2.3.1 PRODUCT INFORMATION
Product info displays information about Software Version & Release, Developer Company,
System Day and Date, Product brand Name, Single or multi user indicator, Software serial
number, and System time. Every time a new release of Tally is made, it is identified with a
different release name. Tally would rewrite data created in earlier release to make it compatible
with the current release of software.
2.3.2 WORK AREA
The work area at Gateway is broadly separated into two sections. The right hand side
contains the menu, where you would select your instructions to Tally and left hand side displays
List of Selected Companies, Current Period and Current Date you are working with tally screen.

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In current date option have not the calendar date but the date you worked last during the current
period. In list of selected companies displayed the name of all selected or loaded companies with
last date voucher entry information. Suppose you select more than one company, the active
company is shown at top of list in bold letters and others appear next in normal font.
2.3.3 BUTTON BAR
Button Bar consisting of numerous buttons appears at right of the screen. Buttons provide
quick access to different options, which varies from screen to screen. Active buttons are shown
in solid colour and inactive buttons are showed in grayed colour.
Invoking Buttons
You will find many buttons name starts with Function key (e.g., F1:
Select Company) which means you have to press the function Key
(appears at topmost row of keyboard). Some buttons have a
character to key single or double underline which means you have to
press the character/Function key in conjunction with Alt or Ctrl key
respectively. You can of course launch by clicking it.
Alt : (Press Alt Key & character/function key with single underline)
Ctrl : (Press Ctrl key & character/function key with double underline)
2.3.4 CALCULATOR
Working with Tally, at any moment you can either work at Work Area (where menu,
reports and entry screens etc appear) or with Calculator. By default work Area becomes active
(Teal colour band appears at top of this section) and Calculator remains inactive. Press Ctrl+N
to activate Calculator (colour and would move to top of calculator). You can enter values and
operators e.g.,+.-,/,*, on pressing Enter, computed results would be displayed in next line. To
return to Work Area, press Ctrl+M.
Action Button Name Hot key Combination
Web Browser Press <Alt> + <W>
Upload Press <Alt> + <O>
E-Mail Press <Alt> + <M>
Export Press <Alt> + <E>
Print Press <Alt> + <P>
F3 : Company Press F3 Function Key
F3: New Cmp Press <Alt> + <F3>
Groups Press <Ctrl>+G
Ledgers Press<Ctrl>+L
Voucher Types Press <Ctrl>+V
Currency Press <Ctrl>+e
F11 : Features Press F11 Function Key
F12 : Configure Press F12 Function Key

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2.4 SWITCHING BETWEEN SCREEN AREAS
When Tally first loads, the Gateway of Tally area is available. To toggle between this and
the Calculator/ODBC Server area at the bottom of the screen, press [Ctrl] + [N] or [Ctrl] + [M]
as indicated on the screen. The active area of the screen is highlighted by a green bar. At any
numeric fields, you can activate Calculator by pressing Alt+C. upon entering value & operators,
on pressing Enter, calculated result would be pasted to the numeric field. You can return to
Work area by pressing Ctrl+M. The Calculator follows BDMAS rule where execution sequence
is Bracket, Division, Multiplication, Addition, and Subtraction.
2.5 MOUSE & KEYBOARD INTERACTION.
While working in Tally, please use the following conventions:
Mouse / Keyboard Conventions
Do Action
Click Press the left mouse button
Double-Click Press and release the left mouse button twice, without moving the
mouse pointer off the item
Ready to activate the Keyboard keys combination
Press <Alt> + <M>
Press <Ctrl> + <L>
Press
Press F12 key in keyboard
2.6 BUTTONS BAR HOTKEY COMBINATION
2.6.1. HELP BUTTON <ALT> + <H>
This button launches Tally reference manual. This manual is compiled HTML Help File
method. Contents would be displayed to select the topic you wish to view. To launches Tally
help window by double click the tallyref.chm file at the program folder where Tally ies 7.2 has
been installed. On clicking these keys, contents would be displayed and you can select any topic
for reference. On-line help has been incorporated in Tally 7.2 version software. This screen has
two portions. While the left hand side consists of Tabs like Contents, Index, Search and
Favorites, the right hand side portion displays the information for the item selected.
Contents : The manual is split into 14 major topics indicated with book icon
mark at root level.
Index : To find out a topic from indexed List, click index Tap that displays
a textbox to enter the keyword to list index entries.
Search : To search topics matching with your keyword. Click search tab that
would display a text box to enter words to be founded.
Favorites : You can add a topic to favorites. To add the current topic at list
favorites , click Add button , thus you can add topics selectively to
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2.6.2. WEB BROWSER BUTTON <ALT> + <W>
Using this option, you can browse any website or view any file in web format. This button
launches the web browser and on clicking this button, the internet explorer would appear at the
work area within the Tally Screen. The browser appears only in the work area while the other
areas still remains in the screen as it is. You can browse any website by entering the URL at the
address bar or view any file in web format. When web browser is active, the button becomes End
Browser. To return to Tally work area, click this button which toggles between Web browser and
End browser.
2.6.3. UPLOAD BUTTON <ALT>+<O>
Uploading is the process of transferring files from the user’s computer to the web server
where you wish to publish the web page or wish to store your file. Many business organisation
already have their website, those who do not, are expected to have soon. Tally 6.3 versions helps
to make better use of website with twin facilities: first by generating any report in HTML format
to make it as web page and second by providing direct publishing option to upload at web server.
If you need to publish your half-yearly unsuited Accounts, upload Balance sheet and Profit &
Loss Account in HTML format to your web server. Tally supports FTP, HTTP and HTTPS
protocols.
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. A protocol is a set of rules that Enable computers to
speak to one another. FTP is used to make files and folders publicly available for transfer over
the internet. FTP allows users to browse through the directories from a remote site and to
download or upload files. Downloading is the process of transferring a file from the internet to
the user’s computer and Uploading is reverse process. FTP site is a directory space in a web
server that accepts FTP connections.
HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTPS Sites conforms to security protocol
to configured and accept secure connections to ensure that your data and files are not tampered
while the connection remains ensure that your data and files are not tamper while the connection
remains normally used for websites that accept payment through Credit card organizations who
handle sensitive data. Many internet sites are set up to prevent unauthorized people from seeing
the information that is sent to or from those sites, these are known as secure sites. You can send
information to secure site with safety and confidence. When you visit a secure web site, it
automatically sends you its certificate and the browser displays a lock icon on the status bar. If
you are about to send information to a secure site, normally browser warns that the sites is not
secure. Normally commercial websites are FTP Site, so check with the Web Server provider for
the type of Web Server and select accordingly.
2.6.4. EMAIL BUTTON <ALT> + <M>
Working with Tally ies 7.2, any report can be e-mailed by entering recipients email address.
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printing and sending by post. To send and Invoice via email, on completing the invoice entry
click email button. A carbon copy of mail can also be sent by entering recipients email ID at
Carbon Copy (CC) field. Tally picks up the email address entered in party ledger for documents /
reports related to specific party. E-mail drastically reduces communication cost and time to
maintain paperless office environment.
2.6.5. EXPORT BUTTON <ALT>+<E>
In Tally ies 7.2, you would get 2 formats for export, namely ASCII (Comma delimited
export data format) and SDF (System Data Format). In this integrated enterprises solution have
some more export data format namely HTML (web publishing) and XML (Data Interchange).
These formats provide you tremendous flexibility to work with the Tally data in many
applications.
2.6.6 PRINT BUTTON <ALT>+<P>
To change the style and format of Balance sheet or to tag schedule reference in the balance
sheet printed from tally, on storing output report to a ASCII text file. The following five steps are
used to get the hard copy of the balance sheet. These steps are,
1. Select the report
2. Set Report Option
3. Print
4. Quit format
5. File Name
2.7 GATEWAY OF TALLY MENU
If we select Display > Accounts Books the
menu shows the full patch picture. The menu displays
primary choices. Menu options are dependent on
activation of options. In some cases, you may find
some options appearing as grayed indicating that option
is not active. The menu is a drill-down, on selecting an
option, if a sub-menu exists for the selected option, it
would be displayed. If next level sub-menu exists, it
would appear below it – showing the entire path at top
of the menu. By selecting Quit – last option in each
menu (by pressing Esc key in keyboard) you can return
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2.8 SELECTION OF MENU OPTION
You can select a menu in either of the following mode:
· Press the highlighted character. Example, to select Create Company, Press C (the
highlighted character). This is the easy way of selection.
· Move highlight bar on the option with up/Down arrow key in keyboard and press
Enter
· Double click the option (Click twice, fast in left button in mouse)
2.9 LET US SUM UP
In this Unit I, we have briefly touched upon the following points.
i. Three type of tally opening screen environment is available
ii. One of the most easiest way to open the tally screen is,
a. Start menu, select program > Tally ies 7.2>Tally 7.2
iii. The Gateway of Tally screen can be divided into 4 parts. They are Product
information, Work area and Button bar and Calculator area.
iv. Button Bar consisting of numerous buttons appears at right of the screen. Buttons
provide quick access to different options, which varies from screen to screen. Active
buttons are shown in solid colour and inactive buttons are showed in grayed colour
v. To launch Tally help window by double clicking tallyref.chm file at the program
folder where Tally ies 7.2 has been installed.
vi. E-mail button drastically reduces communication cost and time to maintain
vii. paperless office environment.
viii. By selecting Quit – last option in each menu (by pressing Esc key in keyboard)
ix. you can return to the upper level menu.
A. State any two methods to open the Tally software
B. What is the use of BDMAS rule in Calculator area?
C. How many type of Export method are available in Tally 7.2 software
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2.11 LESSN END ACTIVITIES
1. How to activate the Tally screen?
2. Explain the Tally screen classification.
3. What is meant by Button bar?
4. Explain the Hotkey combination.
5. What is the use of BDMAS rule in working with calculator?

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LESSON – 3: MULTILINGUAL AND QUIT OPERATIONS
CONTENTS
3.0 Aim and objectives
3.1 Introduction
3.2 F11 feature Environment
3.3 F11 Function key theme
3.4 F12 Configure dialog Window
3.4.1 Country details
3.4.2 Style of Names
3.4.3 Style of Dates
3.4.4 Configuration of Numbers
3.4.5 Graphs in Monthly Report
3.5. Multilingual Communication
3.6 Multilingual Advanced Technology
3.7 Quit the Tally Screen
3.8 Let us Sum Up
3.9 Points for Discussion
3.10 Check your Progress
3.11 Less-end activities
In this unit we will discuss the multilingual feature of Tally software and also we will
discuss the F11 and F12 function key interaction in trade nature. After going through this unit,
you will be able to,
i) List down the function key Advantages
ii) Explain configuration pop-up menu options
iii) Describe multilingual communication system
iv) Discuss the tally quitting operation procedure
3.1 INTRODUCTION
Tally provides predefined vouchers and also allows defining different types of vouchers as
per trade nature. The integrated system ensures real-time linking of accounts and inventory,
resulting in accurate tracking of information. Blazing speed ensures quick data entry and
retrieval of information. A Tally user can maintain ‘Outstanding Reports' along with Age Wise
analysis. Credit Limits can be given ‘amount wise' as well as ‘period wise'. Once Credit limits
are set for a Party, then the user cannot bill the particular Party beyond the specified limit. Only
the authorized user can alter the Credit Limits. This helps to monitor as well as control any
potential slow collection and warns about the potential bad debts. Using the function key F11
and configuration key F12 we set these type of limitation for accounting and inventory
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3.2 F11 FEATURES
In the Right side panel button, F11 function button is available. On clicking this button we
are easily make operation setting for individual company. Depending on the featured activated,
tally displays menu options and set prompts in master entry / edit screens. On selection of the
company, you get the screens as follows in this window.
In the top of the screen, company name is highlighted with underline format. Some of the
F11 function key feature are listed below.
1) Allow Multi Currency: To record transaction in foreign currency, your should set this
option to Yes.
2) Maintain Budgets and Controls: The main purpose of budgeting is to control the
expenditure. Tally allows you to create multiple budgets. If you wish to use budgets to
compare with actual and get variances
3) Allow 0 valued entries in Vouchers: Zero value vouchers are possible for Sales and
Purchase vouchers as they permit invoicing for free sample. This option is not available
in the case of Receipts, Payment and Journal Vouchers.
4) Allow Purchase Order Processing: Goods received are linked Purchase Orders and
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5) Maintain Bill-Wise Details: Tally would maintain ledger wise balance and display net
debt or credit balance for a leader. By maintaining Bill wise details you can get bill wise
outstanding compute bill wise overdue interest.
6) Maintain Cost Centers: Cost centers option is set to yes, computer asked this question,
if you wish to allocate a transaction to more than one set of cost centers simultaneously ,
respond yes, that would activate cost category option under Accounts Info menu and also
able to allocate to multiple set of cost centers in parallel.
7) Active Interest Calculation: To calculate interest for any ledger, respond yes, that
would prompt at every ledger screen whether to activate interest calculation for the
ledger. Tally offer two type of interest calculation. They are Simple mode calculation and
Advanced mode calculation
8) Use Reverse Journals: Reverse journals helps to make transient journal vouchers to get
intermediate Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet after the adjustments.
3.3 F11 FUNCTION KEY THEME
The different features of a company can be selected or modified by F11 button. This button
is available in almost all screens of Tally as you might wish to modify it as your requirements
change. Each company may have different features active. For example, a company in your
group may need multi-currency whereas another company may not. Configuration options, on
the other hand, affect all companies maintained in the same DATA directory and setting
configuration for one company will affect other companies in that data directory. Please note that
certain features like multi-currency and multi-locations, once set to Yes, cannot be modified if
the feature has been used. However, other features like Cost Centers and Bill-wise details can be
modified even if they are used. If you reset the option after having used the feature in
transactions, it is advisable to rewrite the company by using [CTRL+[ALT]+[R].
The two features - Cost centers and Bill-wise details- must be activated here for them to be
available for ledger accounts. Each ledger account can then individually be set for the feature as
required. For example, the options will become available for both ‘ABC Software Private
Limited’(a Debtor A/c) and 'Rent' (an Indirect Expenses A/c). You would want Bill-wise details
but not Cost Centers for ‘ABC Software Private Limited’ and vice-versa for Rent. You can
active an option
3.4 F12 CONFIGURATION DIALOG WINDOW
In the Right side panel button, F12 configure button is available. On clicking this button is
context sensitive. Its effects depend on where you press the button. For example, when you press
this button at Gateway of tally menu you get respective configuration screen. If you press it at
any report screen you get configuration screen relevant to the Report to configure display,
printing or export of the Report. Gateway of Tally configuration screen have shown the
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3.4.1 COUNTRY DETAILS
Accounting terminology differs in India/Asia and other countries. The main difference is the
local tax levied on transfer of goods. It is VAT in Europe, Sales Tax in Asia and America. If you
are at any part of Europe, the first thing you should do is to select Britain / Europe before
creation of a new company. For a company in Asia and India select India/ Asia. In this Gateway
of Tally screens press F12 function key and than choose General sub menu. Now you have the
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Normally state authority’s levies tax on goods transferred within the state while central
authorities’ levies tax on goods transferred from one state to another. Registration certificate
number is required to be mentioned in inventory document.
3.4.2 STYLE OF NAMES
In Default appearance of Names in Reports portion you have lot of option to view the
information in the sub heading of Alias Name only or Alias only or Description name or
Description part no or Name only or Name description or Name alias or Part no alias only or part
no description or Part name or part no only. The default setting can either be a single value or
combination. On selection of two values you can also determine the appearance order. The
liberty to alter it in individual reports, but more accurate default setting would save your precious
time to alter it in each report.
3.4.3 STYLE OF DATES
Styles of dates have 3 options. They are namely Indian style (dd- mm -yy), American style
(mm-dd - yy) and Japanese style (yy- mm- dd) as applicable for your country. Separately used in
sort date format or long date format. Long date format example is 1st
June 2007 and Short date
format example is 01-06-2007. The default short date separator is a hyphen (-). You can
customize the date separator dot (.) or colon (:)
3.4.4 CONFIGURATION OF NUMBERS
In most countries a dot(.) is used to represent a decimal symbol.(For example
1245.45,12.234343 and 0.124) . In some countries comma is used as separator for decimal
symbol. (for example 1245, 45 and 12, 2345). This configuration of numbers options give the
choice of the decimal symbol whether it may be dot (.) or comma (,) or any other character as
decimal symbol (/). Normally comma is used as separator for thousands and dot is used decimal
symbol. Put the sign before the currency have user choice option. You like to get currency
symbol means give the option yes otherwise it will be no. In the same option environment is
possible to show the million or lakhs formation.
3.4.5 GRAPHS IN MONTHLY REPORTS
We have graphical representation of the monthly reports using the option Graphs in monthly
reports is set to Yes. Each and every month transaction will be show in the format of the bar
chart. In F12 numeric symbol, you can configure symbols for positive (+) and negative (-)
number, Debit and Credit amount. You can configure the prefix, suffix symbols. Normally a
prefix appears to distinguish a negative number but no prefix for positive numbers. For Example
positive 500.00 is represented as 500.00 and negative 500.00 are represented as -500.00. The
following three properties are common for the entire numerical symbol,
i) Symbol before numbers (prefix)
ii) Symbol after numbers (suffix)
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3.5 MULTILINGUAL COMMUNICATION
Tally 9 is also concurrently multilingual, which means users can switch between English
and other Indian languages while processing a transaction. For instance, one may have recorded
a transaction in English but can choose to process it, modify it or take print outs of it in Tamil.
This is different from a regular multilingual feature where one cannot switch between languages
for the same business transaction. To incorporate this concurrent multilingual capability, Tally 9
has been designed with a different software architecture compared to its previous versions such
as Tally 6.3 and Tally 7.2, said Mr Shoaib Ahmed, Vice-President (South Asia - Sales), Tally
(India) Private Ltd. However, users of previous Tally versions can upgrade themselves to Tally 9
for about Rs 3,500 (for those upgrading from Tally 7.2), he said. Tally 9 comes in two versions
silver (single user capability) and gold (multi user capability) and is priced at Rs 9,900 and Rs
24,000 respectively.
Tally9 empowers business owners to manage their businesses smoothly. Designed keeping
in mind the needs of the Indian businessman, it has several key additions in terms of
functionalities. The multilingual capacity of Tally 9 gives you tremendous freedom of
communication – you can maintain your business accounts in any Indian language view it in
another and print it in yet another language of your choice. All the modification works will be
done easily. You can send separate documents to suppliers, business associates, customers etc.
Maintaining accounts in your language. In effect, you can conveniently transact business across
the length and breadth of India, and language will no longer be a barrier. Freedom from
dependence on accounting professionals is yet another clear benefit that Tally 9 enables. Right
from day one, you can let your accountant enter information in any Indian language that he is
comfortable with and you can review it in your preferred language at the click of a button.
Backed by the heritage of incredible simplicity, Tally 9 takes one more significant step towards
ensuring that concrete business advantages are realised from accounting on computers.
3.6 MULTILINGUAL ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
Enter input data in the language of your choice
Capture language-specific aliases for all masters
Print reports, vouchers, invoices in any language, based on the information input in a
language-specific alias through transliteration
Enter data through normal as well as phonetic keyboards
Interact with the menu options in a vernacular language, by choosing from the list of
built-in interface languages
3.7 QUIT THE TALLY SCREEN
We are easily save the information and exit from any screen using the key Esc. This is the
way to properly close the Tally splash screen. The following steps are used to quit the Tally
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1. In the Gateway of tally menu , you have one sub menu option Quit
2. To exit the window without confirmation, press [Ctrl]+[Q]
3. Press [Esc] button until you see the message Quit? Yes or No. you can press [Enter] key
or [Y] for yes to quit the Tally application.
The following window show the key stoke activities response screen. In this screen we have
the clear idea , to shutdown to quit the tally accounting software.
3.8 LET US SUM UP
1) Tally accounting software configurations menu
2) Function key F11 is used active the option for one company and deactivate the same
for another company.
3) Function key F12 is context-sensitive. Configuration option is relevant to the
specific screen would appear
4) Multilingual capacity of Tally 9 gives you tremendous freedom of communication.
These multilingual languages are Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi,
Gujarati, Bengali and Malayalam.
5) Print reports, vouchers, invoices in any language, based on the
6) Information input in a language-specific alias through transliteration
7) Press the [Esc] button to quit the tally splash screen environment.

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The following questions are making to induce the user work perfection through their
business.
i. Justify “ Function key F11 and F12 Company configuration ” and “ Manual
Company configuration”
ii. Substantiate “Multilingual feature is necessary for all the Tally version”
iii. Establish “ quit the tally screen via close button or Escape button ”
A. State any two advantages of Tally configuration button
B. What is the use of multilingual platform?
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1. Explain the full key features.
2. What is meant by F12 configuration dialog window?
3. Explain the multilingual communications.
4. How to quit the Tally screen.

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UNIT - II
LESSON – 4: COMPANY CREATION
CONTENTS
4.0 Aim and objective
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Company Information menu
4.3 Creation of Company
4.4 Fields of company creation
4.4.1 Directory
4.4.2 Mailing Address
4.4.3 Tax and currency symbol
4.4.4 Types of a company
4.4.5 Financial and Book begin year
4.4.6 Security Control
4.4.7 Base currency information
4.5 Selecting a particular company
4.6 Delete a particular company
4.7 Shut a particular company
4.8 Let us sum up
4.9 Points for discussion
4.0 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
In this Unit we will discuss the features of company creation, selecting, deleting and
shutting a company environment. After going through this unit, you will be able to,
i. Describe the company information menu environment
ii. List down the Fields of company creation
iii. Distinguish shut a company and delete a company
iv. Discuss selecting company in a sequence
4.1 INTRODUCTION
The term company is a generic term and not confined to an organization registered under
company Act. This term in context of Tally stands for any entity for whom a separate set of
books of accounts is maintained. It may be a company, partnership firm, individual organization
even a branch office for which a separate set of account books is maintained for accounting. For
each entity you create a profile which is termed as “COMPANY” in Tally.
4.2 COMPANY INFORMATION MENU
Using the button F3 : cmp info (<Alt> + <F3> ) , we have the following company
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Company info menu consists of following options(Hotkeys Show in bold letter)
S. No. Action Meaning
1 Select Company To select a company
2 SHut Company To unload a selected company
3 Create Company To create a new Company
4 Create Group Company This option becomes active when more than one
company is selected
5 Alter To alter information of existing company
6 Change Tally Vault To alter Tallyvalut password for a company
7 SPlit Company Data To split the company data into financial period
8 Backup A copy of the data should be kept in other
media like floppy or CD or Tally Locker
9 Restore To getting back the earlier data in the working
Disk
10 Quit To exit the Tally software
4.3 CREATION OF COMPANY
To create a company, select Create company option from company info menu that brings
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4.4 FIELDS OF COMPANY CREATION
This company creation screen wants the necessary and optional information about the
company. The necessary fields are Name of the company, communication address , State name,
Pin code, E-mail address, use Indian vat, vat in, income tax number, local sales tax number,
currency symbol, maintain the company type, financial year from, Book beginning from , Tally
vault password , use security control and base currency information. The option field is Directory
specification location. The above fields are arranged in group wise information and also
discussed sequentially.
4.4.1 DIRECTORY
The data path where you want the company to get created can be specified in the Directory
field. This field is skipped by default assuming that you wish to create the company in the data
path given in the Tally.INI file. If you want to change it, simply use the backspace key and
change it to what ever required. This is basically referred to as the Tally Anywhere concept –
which is an ability to create/load companies in separate directories. The Directory field is found
during Select, Create, Backup, Restore and Rewrite options for a company. By default, the
cursor will skip the field, presuming that you wish to use the default data directory for your
work. You may press backspace and give a completely new path and work through there.
For example, the default Tally data directory could be C:TALLYDATA. You may now
wish to create a new company on C:TALLYBRANCHES. The next time, the default
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branches, you would press backspace and enter C:TALLYBRANCHES for the directory
name. This would bring up those companies whose data is stored there
4.4.2 MAILING ADDRESS
As you type the name of the company, Tally compresses it so that all the characters can be
viewed on the screen. This is Tally's marvelous innovative technology Auto-Fit which allows
you to enter really long names. Tally does not scroll to the right making the first few characters
invisible. The information given, can be viewed all at once. Tally compresses the information on
screen – however, at the time of printing – the given information is printed as required. In
addition to the Company Name - Tally provides the facility to enter the mailing name and
address of the company. The mailing name and address details are picked up for inclusion in any
report which needs the company name and address at the top, e.g., Balance Sheets, Statement of
Accounts, etc.
For example, ABS Software Privated Limited
Royal Floor
No.25, Orchid Apartments
Sabha Nagar
Chennai
Tamilnadu
Pin : 600 002
4.4.3 TAX AND CURRENCY SYMBOL
The Income Tax Number is the number allotted by the Income Tax Authorities. In India
this could be the Permanent Account Number - which comprises of 10 digits and may be
alphanumerical. The information given here will appear in Account Confirmation Statements.
However, it is not compulsory to provide this information – this field can be left blank. In India,
the States as well as the Centre (Central Government) charge tax on transfer of merchandise. The
State usually taxes transfers within the State (Local Sales Tax), while the Central Government
will charge tax on transfers from one State to another (Central Sales Tax).You may be required
to register your company with both local and or central governments. Registrationis
acknowledged by way of numbers, which often need mentioning in different documents,
especially invoices. The Local Sales Tax Number refers to the registration number allotted by
Local (State) Sales Tax Authorities. The details given here comprises of a number and date of
registration (in India). This information, if given, can be printed on invoices.
For example
Income tax number : 123456ABC4 dated 24/10/07
Local sales tax number : 2343521234 dated 20/7/07
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4.4.4 TYPE OF COMPANIES
Tally displays a pop-up list called Type of Company this is how your books of accounts
will be maintained. Weather it may be Account only or Account with Inventory Only. Select this
only if you do not have any inventory transactions. This type of transaction is suitable for
professionals and corporate offices. Tally would not permit interruption of Inventory related
information that is not required. Maintain Accounts-with-Inventory – Tally accordingly now
provides all the inventory-related information. This obviously allows you to maintain both
financial accounts and inventory. You may choose not to use one or the other until the need
arises. You can always modify the company information to change these settings to allow or to
discontinue accounts or inventory.
For example
Maintain : Accounts Only [Or] Accounts with Inventory
4.4.5 FINANCIAL AND BOOK BEGIN YEAR
In most countries, the books of accounts of a company are maintained for a stipulated
period like 12 months. This stipulated period is referred to as the Financial Year. Tally
automatically considers 12 months from the date you give here as the Financial Year. For
example, if 1st
April 2007 is given as the date, the Financial Year will be April to March in this
case, ending with 31st
March 2008
Tally allows you to maintain data for multiple years by changing the period (Alt+F2) at the
Gateway of Tally. In addition, you can also specify the date of actual establishment of the
company this is possible in Books beginning from. Tally presumes that you wish to maintain
books from the beginning of the financial year. Tally displays the date given in Financial Year
From automatically. However, you can change the date if required. The date for Books
beginning from can be changed – in case of companies, which are started in the middle of the
year (not many people wait for the 1st
day of the Financial Year (FY) to start companies!). If
your company is a new company, you would like to start the books of accounts from the date of
actual establishment of the company (date of incorporation) but close books according to the
Financial Year specified by you. This is because - you do not want reports including the period
when your company was not even in existence. Tally provides the required flexibility in such a
case by allowing you to give the date when the books of accounts actually began. Tally will open
books from this date and close on the last day of the FY.
For example, your company is established on 19th
August 2007. The opening balances for
all the accounts can be given as on 19th
August 2007 even though the Financial Year given is 1st
April 2007 (April to March financial year). The company's books will begin on 19th
August 2007
and close on 31st
March 2008. It ensures smooth transition to the next year.
Financial year From : 1-4-2007
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This concept can be applied even when you are migrate to Tally from any other system or a
manual accounting system on any day during the Financial year. Simply close books in that other
system on the previous day and start books on Tally from this day. You are allowed to give
opening balances of all ledger accounts including revenue accounts.
4.4.6 SECURITY CONTROL
Tally Vault is an enhanced security system, which allows for encryption of the company
data. Encryption means converting normally accessible Tally information into unrecognisable
information, which can only be reconverted by authorized persons. Give a password here and
repeat the same. This basically results in the creation of an encrypted company whose
information is not accessible to users other than the password holder.
If you obtained for security control, Tally offers a comprehensive password based access
control to different parts of the system based on authority lists created by the Administrator. (The
section on Security Control under Administer Tally contains details on authority lists)Give the
name of the administrator (most probably yourself) and your password. You repeat the password
by way of verification. The password is not displayed to protect it.
For example
Tally Vault Password : **** (ROSE) four letters are appeared with astrick.
4.4.7 BASE CURRENCY INFORMATION
The lower portion of the Company Information screen is reserved for Base Currency
Information. Tally is multi-currency enabled. You can record transactions in foreign currency,
raise invoices in US Dollars (or any other currency), maintain bank accounts or ledgers in
foreign exchange .Base Currency is the currency in which your accounts would be maintained.
Financial statements would be prepared in the base currency by default and these would
normally be required for local statutory authorities. The Base Currency information has to be
compulsorily provided in Tally, during creation of a company. Base Currency is the common
currency in which your accounts would be maintained. It is usually your home (local) currency,
assuming that most transactions are in this currency. Moreover, financial statements would be
prepared in the base currency by default. For example, if the accounts belong to a company in
India, the base currency would be Indian Rupees (Rs.)
4.5 SELECTING PARTICULAR COMPANY
In the button bar area you have the option F1 : Select Cmp button. You press the function
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Choose which company you want to work Tally important fields are:
1. Company Name : All the companies created are displayed
2. System-generated code : Automatic code for each company displayed.
3. The Financial Year
Information : Relating to the number of years data present in the
company
(for example, 1-Apr-2005 to 31-Mar-2006)
4.6 DELETE A PARTICULAR COMPANY
To delete a company, press <Alt> + <D> in Alteration Mode (Company info à Alter), a
confirmation would be sought (Delete? Yes or No) to delete a company, click yes or press ‘Y’
again a confirmation would be sought (Are you sure? Yes or No) respond Yes to delete the
company’s data files permanently from disk. As there is no Undo process to revive the data, you
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4.7 SHUT A PARTICULAR COMPANY
Shut company is the reverse process of Select company. That means unloads the company
from memory using F1 : Shut Cmp
For example, you have selected two companies namely SS industries and VNS Soft
systems. Now you wish to work with SS industries only, as such wish to unload VNS Soft
systems Click the button F1 : Shut cmp in button bar area. Now VNS Soft systems is removed
from the company list pop up menu.
4.8 LET US SUM UP
i. The term company is a generic term and not confined to an organization registered
under company Act . This term in context of Tally stands for any entity for whom a
separate set of books of accounts is maintained. It may be a company
ii. Using the button F3 : Cmp info (<Alt> + <F3> ) to get the company information
menu
iii. To create a company, select Create company option from company info menu that
brings company creation
iv. The data path where you want the company to get created can be specified in the
Directory field
v. Tally allows you to maintain data for multiple years by changing the period (Alt+F2)
at the Gateway of Tally
The following questions are making to induce the user work perfection through their
business.
1. Justify Gateway of tally menu and company creation menu
2. Substantiate “Tally vault and Security control need the company creation”
3. Establish “ Base currency information”

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4.10 CHECK YOUR PROCESS
A. Write the step to change the Data Directory
B. List down different type of tax number available in Tally
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1. Define the term company in the context of Tally.
2. Explain the various fields of company creation.
3. Explain the selection of new company.
4. What is meant by shut a particular company.

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LESSON – 5: COMPANY MODIFICATION
CONTENTS
5.0 Aim and objective
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Company Information Hotkey combinations
5.3 Company Creation Model
5.4 ABC Software Private Limited company creation
5.5 Save company information
5.6 Alteration of Company
5.7 Change Data Directory
5.8 Auto Selection of company
5.9 Let us sum up
5.0 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
In this Unit we will discuss the new company creation and auto selection of the company.
After going through this unit, you will be able to,
i. Describe the new company location
ii. List down the various Tax applicable to the company
iii. Distinguish Inventory and Accounts with Inventory mode
iv. Discuss auto select company in a sequence
5.1 INTRODUCTION
Computer now play a major role in any commercial organization for a number of function
initially performed. A number of accounting package are available which are being extensively
used for the purposes of maintaining accounts. With the help of computers, a business concern
will have a better control over its operation. Tally software organize the information than only it
is easy to interpret. It makes the user’s job simple. All activities of an organization are to be
recorded and documented. Company creation is the base information of the accounting software.
Each company has different set of information about their concern. Each and every company
creation has unique data number for further manipulation. Here we discuss the communication
and taxation information about the particular concern.
5.2 COMPANY INFORMATION HOTKEY COMBINATION
Start -à Programs -à Tally ies7.2 -à Tally 7.2 . This is the
way to properly open the Tally application. Now you have tally splash
screen. This is the first time to open the Tally application after the
Installation means you have the following menu in work area. Otherwise
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5.3 COMPANY CREATION MODEL
ABC Software Private Limited deals in both Software and Hardwareproducts. It is a
corporate office is located at 21,Lenin street, Banasangari, Bangalore 700 013, PAN :
A32456L456, Local Sales tax number : ST/cal/5654.They are not registered under Central Sales
tax. They operate with in the country. This is the original information of the company ABC
Software. Manually how you do categorized the following fields,
1. Name of the company
2. Communication address
3. State Name
4. Pin code
5. Pan
6. Local sales tax number
This same type of classification will be made in the new company creation screen using the
following systematic approaches.
5.4 ABC SOFTWARE PRIVATE LIMITED
Directory C:TallyData
Name ABC Software Private Limited
Mailing Name ABC Software Private Limited
Address 21,Lenin street,
Banasangari,
Bangalore
State Karnataka
Pin Code 700 013
E-mail Address ABCSoft@yahoo.co.in
Use Indian VAT No
VAT IN -
Red color
Button used to
open the New
Window
Meaning
S Select the existing company
information
C Create the new company user
information
B Store the information in external
storage device
R Copy the external storage device
information to hard disk
Q Exit the Tally environment

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Local Sales Tax Number ST/cal/5654
Inter State Sales Tax Number -
Income Tax Number A32456L456
Currency Symbol Rs.
Maintain Accounts with Inventory
Financial Year From 1-4-2007
Books Begin From 1-4-2007
Tally Vault Password -
Use Security control -
Name of Administrator -
Use Tally Audit Features -
Base Currency Information As it is (Same currency information)
After feeding the data the company creation screen will have the following look.
5.5 SAVE COMPANY INFORMATION
On completing the information, Tally seeks your confirmation to save the company profile
by asking Accept? Yes or No. If you find everything in order click yes or press Y that would
save the information and create necessary folders and data files for the company and enables to
work with the company in a moment. In case you wish to alter any information in the screen.
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to move to the desired field. Alternately click the data field you wish to modify. After the
modification press Ctrl + A to save the information of alters company.
5.6 ALTERATION OF COMPANY
After save the company information or any other transaction you are entered into the tally
application we will be able to modify, at any time, any information given whilst creating the
company.
At the Gateway of Tally > [ALT]+F3 > Alter
Press [Enter] on Alter and the screen appears as:
5.7 CHANCE DATA DIRECTORY
As you create a new company, Tally assigns a 4 digit numeric number for the company
(starting from 0001) and creates a folder by same name under which data from files for the
company is created. As you would create another company, Tally would assign the next number.
Tally assign incremental number within the data folder and it is possible that two companies
have same number
For example, we have so for created 9 companies. Data files for 8 companies are stored at
D:data and one company at C:accounts. Tally has assigned company Numbers as 0001 to 0008
for data files of companies stored at when you create a new company , if you obtain to store data
at D:data folder. It would be assigned an increment number. That is 0009 , if you select in
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assign 0001. D:data and again 0001 for the file of company stored at C:accounts as seen in the
following tree view structure.
5.8 AUTO SELECTION OF A COMPANY
Instead of selecting company each time upon loading Tally, you may automate selection of
companies by entering company numbers to be pre-loaded at Tally.ini file . This file will be
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If you are working with tally all the company data files would be in same folder and by
default the same would appear as data path specified next to specified location of data files.
Ensure that response to the default companies’ statement is yes
[Default companies = Yes]
Next enter the company four digit numbers you wish to pre-load against the load statement. For
Example,
Load =0007
You can specify multiples companies to pre-load by entering each company number in separate
lines as shown below.
Load =0001
Load =0002
Load =0003
Load =0004
Next time when you would launch tally, company numbers 0001, 0002, 0003 and 0004 would be
preloaded. Later if you wish to stop preloading any of them, you can place a semi-colon prior to
the statement. A statement preceded by semicolon is skipped. Say to prevent company 0002
Load =0001
;Load =0002
Load =0003
Load =0004
You can preloaded as many companies in this fashion but all from one data folder.
Tips for working Tally Beginners,
On loading the tally splash screen, it covers up your entire screen (Desktop) area and do not
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application. , you are required to minimize Tally in order to get the Desktop including Taskbar.
Other wise, Position the cursor on the Title Bar of Tally screen and drag it a little in either way,
now minimize the screen and again maximize. Now, you will notice the Taskbar is appearing at
bottom allowing you to launch any other application simultaneously.
The F12 key is context-sensitive. We get different options on pressing this key at different
screens. In each case , configuration options relevant to the specific screen would appear . The
setting which we specify through F12 are global and got company specific. Any change made
becomes effective for all companies in Tally.
In your leisure time you want to read the Tally software manual means, directly you go to
the run prompt and choose the Tallyref.chm in tally directly and get the tutor for your future
reference.
5.9 LETUS SUM UP
1. In the company information menu red colour button are indicated to quickly access
the window separately
2. On completing the information, Tally seeks your confirmation to Save the company
profile by asking Accept? Yes or No. Depends upon the user it will be stored in data
file
3. All the information are stored in the tally application is easy to alter using the Alter
screen environment. At the Gateway of Tally, press <Alt> +<F3> to do the
modification work.
4. As you create a new company, Tally assigns a 4 digit numeric number for the
company(starting from 0001) and creates a folder by same name
5. Selecting company each time upon loading Tally, you may automate selection of
companies by entering company numbers to be pre-loaded at Tally.ini file
A. Write the step to change auto selection of the company
B. List down different type Alteration method available in Tally application
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1. Explain the company creation model with an example.
2. What are tips for working Tally beginners?
3. Write short notes on
a) Save company information
b) Alteration of company.
c) Change Data Directory
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UNIT - III
Lesson – 6: PREDEFINED GROUPS IN TALLY
CONTENTS
6.0 Aim and Objective
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Understanding of groups
6.3 Predefined groups of Accounts
6.4 Primary group nature
6.5 Sub group nature
6.6 Grouping Environment
6.6.1 Creation of Group
6.6.2 Alteration of Group
6.6.3 Deletion of Group
6.6.4 Creation, Display, Alteration of Multiple Groups
6.7 Example for Group Structure
6.8 Group creation in advanced mode
6.9 Let us Sum up
6.0 AIM AND OBJECTIVE
In this Unit we will discuss the classification of Groups, selecting, deleting and altering
Group environment. After going through this unit, you will be able to,
i) Describe the Predefined Groups Nature
ii) Distinguish Primary groups and Sub groups
iii) List down the Multi groups functions
iv) Discuss the advanced mode grouping method
6.1 INTRODUCTION
Tally provides with appropriate accounts groups to classify ledger information which are
compliant with relevant laws and meaningful for reporting. In order to classify and organize your
accounts, you must have groups. Classify accounts to determine whether a ledger goes to profit
& Loss account or Balance Sheet. After creation of company, the next step is the creation of
masters for account and inventory. Now we shall discuss Creation, Alteration of Accounts
Masters (Groups).All masters other than the pre-defined reserved account groups should be
created. This process of creation and alteration of accounting masters can be accessed through
accounts information at Gateway of Tally. Tally provides the option to work with either Single
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6.2 UNDERSTANDING OF GROUPS
To carry on a business we will incur certain expenditure like, telephone expenses, electricity
charges, conveyance, etc. We create these as ledgers and pass the entries. Because all voucher
entries are made using ledgers. But, what should we do if we want to know the total of such
expenses for a week or a month? Simple, we have to GROUP them under expenses.
That is why mentioned the ledger name along with details of which group the ledger should
come under. This is so that we can get a report telling us the total expenditure for a particular
period. We can generate similar reports for other groups also.
6.3 PREDEFINED GROUPS OF ACCOUNTS
Groups are a collection of Ledgers of the same nature of transaction.Tally provides a list of
28 pre-defined Groups. Of these 15 are primary Groups and 13 are sub-Groups. Tally has pre-
defined ledgers for Cash (under Cash-in hand group) and for the Profit & Loss A/c (Under
primary group). Out of the 15 pre-defined primary groups, given below are 9 pre-defined
Primary Groups that appear in the Balance Sheet. These 9 primary groups are Capital in nature
and hence appear in the Balance Sheet. Note: [Items in square brackets] are aliases for the
Group Names.
Primary
Group
S.No
Primary Group Name Sub Group
S.No
Sub Group Name Alias Name
1 Capital Account 1 Reserves & surplus Retained Earnings
2 Current Assets 2 Bank Accounts
3 Cash-in-hand
4 Deposits Asset
5 Loan and advances Asset
6 Stock-in-hand
7 Sundry Debtors
3 Current Liabilities 8 Duties and taxes
9 Provisions
10 Sundry creditors
4 Fixed Assets
5 Investments
6 Loans 11 Bank OD A/c Liability
12 Secured Loans
13 Unsecured Loans
7 Suspense A/c
8 Miscellaneous Expenses
9 Branch / Divisions
10 Sales Accounts
11 Purchase Accounts
12 Direct Income Income (Direct)
13 Indirect Income Income (Indirect)
14 Direct Expenses Expense(Direct)
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6.4 PRIMARY GROUP NATURES
In Tally have 15 primary groups for all the transaction.
1. Capital Account
This group consists of Capital and Reserves and Surplus of the Company. For example
Share Capital, Partner's Capital, retained earnings.
2. Current Assets
Current assets are those assets which are to be converted into cash with a period of one year
or during the normal operating cycle of the business
3. Current Liabilities
Current Liabilities are those liabilities which require the use of Current Assets for
settlement. In other words, liabilities payable within a year or during the operating cycle of the
business, whichever is longer, out of the existing current asset or by creation of other current
liabilities come under this category. It also includes amount set apart or provided for any
unknown liability like Provision for Tax, Pension etc.
Long-term loans are treated as Current Liabilities in cases where they are due for settlement
within the year of Balance Sheet. But it does not include installments of long term loans.
4. Fixed Assets
It refers to those assets which are held by way of investment and not for the purpose of
resale. They are of a permanent nature. These are acquired for the purpose of creating production
and income earning capacity or for increasing the production and income earning capacity.
For example purchase of Machinery, Building etc. Fixed assets are further classified into
(i) Tangible Assets, (ii) Intangible Assets.
Tangible Assets: It refers to those assets which can be seen, felt and touched with physical
existence such as machinery, land and building, furniture etc.,
Intangible Assets: These assets do not have any physical existence. Goodwill, patents,
trademarks and copyrights are examples of Intangible assets.
5. Investment
This is a convenient head to view all the company's total investments. Investment accounts
such as Investment is Shares, Bonds, Government Securities, Long-term Bank deposit accounts,
etc., shall be classified under this group
6. Loans (Liability)
This is a convenient head to view all the bank transaction .Company have the Secured
money transferring method for loans. All long term loans taken by the company will come under
this Group. For example, debentures Loans from financial institution
7. Suspense account
Theoretically speaking, this group should not exist. However, in modern accounting, many
large corporations use a Suspense Ledger to track money paid or recovered, the nature of which
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expenses whose details would be known only upon submission of the TA bill on the completion
of a tour. Some companies may prefer to open similar accounts under Loans and Advances
(Asset) group. Suspense Account is a Balance Sheet item.
8. Miscellaneous Expenses (asset)
The first item under this head is Preliminary Expense which is also known as formation
expenses. Expenses associated with the issue of shares and debentures can also be classified
under this head. The other items that can come under this head are Share and Debenture
Discount, Deferred Revenue Expenses like expenditure on Advertisement, Research &
Development (R&D) etc .These are normally written off against profits over a period of time.
Until it is fully written off, the amount not written off appears under this head.
9. Branches and Divisions
This is a group of sheer convenience. If a company has many branches, then the company
can make use of this group. If you wish to maintain books of the branches / divisions on your
computer, you must open a separate company (Tally allows maintenance of multiple company
accounts).
10. Sales
Selling of goods in the normal course of business is termed as Sales. If the sale is for
immediate cash payment, it is cash sales. If payment for Sales is deferred, it becomes Credit
Sales. All sorts of sales should constitute this group. The classification depends upon the type of
information for the importance is given. Sales Returns come under this Group.
11. Purchases
Buying of goods for the purpose of resale is termed as purchases. If cash is immediately
paid for the purchases, then it becomes cash purchases. If payment is deferred, it is credit
purchases. Purchase Returns will also come under this group. Purchase bills sometimes include
various other charges such as Freight, Delivery Charges, Sales Tax, Excise Duty, etc., which are
finally accounted for as Purchases. Therefore, they should not be treated as separate expenses.
These accounts heads are merely needed to show the amount spent separately in Purchase
Register, but in fact they are of purchases account.
12. Direct Incomes [Income (Direct)]
In the case of professional or servicing companies, which do not have sales income but have
income and professional fees and services, you can place the ledger accounts under Direct
Income.
13. Indirect Incomes [Income (Indirect)]
Incomes such as Interest received, Discount received, Commission earned shall be classified
under this Group.
14. Direct Expenses [Expenses (Direct)
This is a Group for all direct expenses like Wages, Freight, Coolie, Import Duty, etc. In
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15. Indirect Expenses [Expense (Indirect)]
All Office, Administration, Selling Expenses and Financial Expenses should be classified
under this head. In other words, those expenses which are not considered for computation of
Gross Profit should be placed in this group.
6.5 SUB GROUP NATURES
1. Reserves and Surplus Open ledgers like Capital Reserve, General Reserve, Reserve for
Depreciation, etc.
2. Bank Accounts For Current savings, short term deposit accounts, etc.
3. Cash-in hand Tally automatically opens one Cash A/c under this group.
4. Deposits In essence, a place for Fixed Deposits, Security Deposits, or any
deposit made by the company
5. Loans & Advances For all loans given by the company and advances of a non-trading
nature, e.g., advance against salary.
6. Stock-in-hand This is a special sub group. You may wish to open accounts like
Raw Materials, Work-in-Progress and Finished Goods.
7. Sundry Debtors For your customer accounts.
8. Duties and Taxes For all tax accounts like VAT, Sales and other trade taxes. A
convenient place to find the total liability
9. Provisions For provision accounts like Provision for Taxation, Depreciation,
etc.
10. Sundry Creditors For trade creditors of the company.
11. Bank OD Accounts Tally gives two distinct types of Bank Accounts, The Bank OCC
A/c is meant to record the company's overdraft accounts with
banks. e.g., Bill Discounted
12. Secured Loans For term loans and other long/medium term loans that have been
obtained against security of some asset.
13. Unsecured Loans For loans obtained without any security .e.g., Loans from
Directors/partners or outside parties.
6.6 GROUPING ENVIRONMENT
6.6.1 CREATION OF GROUP
Groups can be created in two Modes, namely (1) Normal mode (single group). (2)
Advanced Mode (multiple groups).
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1. Name
Here, you can enter the name of new group.
2. Under
Select the parent group from the list of reserved groups already existing in Tally under
which the new group would be placed. The behaviour of the new group and the parent
group will be the same. If you want to save the Master accept ‘Yes’ otherwise ‘No’.
3. Group behaves like a Sub-Ledger
In order to get net group balance instead of ledger-wise balances in statements respond
‘Yes’ to this option. For example, generally Sundry Debtors contain numerous party
ledger accounts and you may not want to include that long list of debtors in the final
accounts.
4. Used for calculation (e.g. Taxes, Discounts)
If ledgers have percentages for discounts or taxes give ‘Yes’ to this option.
5. Method to allocate when used in Purchase Invoice
Under this menu, you will be given three options for allocation. (i) Appropriate by
Quantity (ii) Appropriate by Value and (iii) No Appropriate. If you do not want any of these
Options, select ‘Not Applicable’.
6. Net Debit /Credit balances for reporting
This groups where you prefer to get net effect, set this option to ‘Yes’ and if you wish to
Alter. On choosing a group, details of the selected group are displayed in Groups
Alteration screen.
6.6.2 ALTERATION OF GROUP
On selecting this option, a List of Groups is displayed to select an existing group you wish
to Alter. On choosing a group, details of the selected group are displayed in Groups Alteration
screen.
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In this above example window, we are easily chance under into fixed assets to current
asset
6.6.3 DELETION OF GROUP
We can Delete a Group by pressing <Alt> + <D> in the Group Alteration screen. Your
confirmation would be sought. Click yes to delete the group.
Accounts Info Group Single Alter Alt +D
Deletion is not permitted in the following Cases:
1.System Generated Reserved Groups cannot be deleted
2.User Created Groups cannot be deleted if any Child Groups and Ledger have been placed
under the Group.
6.6.4 CREATION/DISPLAY/ ALTERATION OF MULTIPLE GROUPS
This option is to be chosen when there is a need to create, alter or display
the names of many groups.
1) Gateway of Tally Accounts Info Groups Multiple
Create = Creation of Multiple Group screen
Display = Display Multiple Groups heading
Alter = Alter Multiple Group content.
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6.7 EXAMPLE FOR GROUP STRUCTURE
SundryDebtors (Predefined group)
1. North India Debtors (Sub-group)
a. New Delhi Debtors (Sub-group)
b. Allahabad Debtors (Sub-group)
2. South India Debtors (Sub-group)
a. Bangalore Debtors (Sub-group)
b. Chennai Debtors (Sub-group)
We have learnt to create ledgers in single and multiple modes under Tally’s default pre-
defined groups and our own sub-groups under Tally’s predefined groups. We have also learnt
how to create groups in single mode. After feeding the groups and sub groups methods you have
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6.8 GROUP CREATION IN ADVANCED MODE
Normal group creation modes have only Name with alias and under sub heading only.
Suppose you open the Group in Gateway of Tally --à Account info--à configuration menu F12
means you have the following menu highlighted for processing. This Group have the sub ledger
option, used for calculation, method to allocate purchase invoice and Net Debit//Credit Balance
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6.9 LETUS SUM UP
i. Groups are a collection of Ledgers of the same nature of transaction. Tally provides a list of
28 pre-defined Groups. Of these 15 are primary Groups and 13 are sub-Groups.
ii. Groups can be created in two Modes, namely Normal mode (single group) and Advanced
Mode (multiple groups).
iii. In Group menu, we have different Letter interaction function. Namely C for Create, D for
Display and A for Alter the Group in Single group or Multiple group
A. List down any 5 primary groups name
B. Mention any 2 subgroup nature
C. Give one difference between single group and multiple group
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1. What is meant by groups of expenditure and accounts?
2. Explain the creation of groups.
3. Explain the group creation in advanced mode.
a) Alteration of Group
b) Deletion of Group
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LESSON – 7: TALLY LEDGER MODIFICATION
CONTENTS
7.0 Aim and Objective
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Creation of Ledger
7.2.1 Ledger Configuration
7.2.2 Process of Ledger
7.3 Display Individual Ledger
7.4 Alteration of Ledger
7.5 Deletion of Individual Ledger
7.6 Creation of Multiple Ledgers
7.7 Alteration of Multiple Ledgers
7.8 Multiple Ledger Buttons
7.8.1 Company
7.8.2 Parent
7.8.3 New Parent
7.8.4 Zero Opening Balance
7.8.5 Skip Name
7.8.6 Skip Parents
7.8.7 Skip details
7.8.8 Change Sort
7.9 Let us sum up
7.11 Lesson-end activiites
7.0 AIM AND OBJECTIVE
In this Unit we will discuss ledger creation, Display, delete and alter Ledger environment.
After going through this unit, you will be able to,
i. Describe the Ledger creation environment
ii. Distinguish Single Ledger and Multiple Ledger
iii. List down the Multi Ledger Buttons functions
7.1 INTRODUCTION
After the creation of necessary masters, you should proceed with the ledger creation. Ledger
account heads are the actual account heads to which we identify the transactions, that is passing
of all vouchers using ledger. Hence, a thorough understanding of account classification is
important for working with ledgers. Tally creates the following two ledgers on its own and the
other ledgers should be created by you. (i) Cash under Cash-in-hand group, (ii) Profit & Loss
Account under Primary Ledger. When you create a new company where Books beginning from
and Financial Year From date are the same, you should create all the ledgers appearing in the
Balance Sheet as at the previous date with opening balance. Also create ledgers appearing in
Profit & Loss Account but with zero (0) opening balances unless Books Beginning From date is
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7.2CREATION OF LEDGER
7.2.1 LEDGER CONFIGURATION
Gate way of Tally -à Account info --à Ledger -à Create -à Press F12. You have the
configuration menu looking like the below window,
7.2.2 PROCESS OF CREATING LEDGER
To Create Account Ledgers Individually select Create form single Ledger under
Accounts Info Ledgers Create and also press F11 to configure
Maintain Bill wise details to Yes and for Non-trading Accounts also to set Yes.
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1. Name
Here, enter the name of the ledger. Tally will not accept same names. We also create the
alias name for the ledger, to conveniently retrieved later.
2. Under
Under this option, you should select the group from the list of groups that will
be displayed along with the ledger creation screen.
3. Inventory values are affected
This option should be given ‘Yes’ for those ledgers which will affect the inventory position
of the company. For example, Purchase, Purchase Returns, Sales, Sales Returns, etc.
4. Maintain balances Bill-by-Bill
To get this option give ‘Yes’ to Maintain Bill-wise details in Company Features-F11. This
option is useful only for Sundry Debtors and Creditors. It can also be used where some tracking
is needed like Project-wise Expenses or income, installments due, installment-wise outstanding
details. Enter due date of the bill or credit days under the option default credit period.
5. Opening Balance
Enter the opening balance of the respective your bank account as on the date of Books
beginning from option in Company Creation Screen.
6. Mailing and Related Details
Tally by default carries the ledger name here. You can also enter any other mailing name as
you wish. This name is printed in all external documents i.e. other than internal reports, books of
accounts, etc. The Address Details, Income Tax Number, Sales Tax Number, the person to
whom you should contact should be given in the respective menus. This option is available only
for parties’ accounts (Capital, Sundry Debtors and Creditors). Further, you can also give the
Telephone number, Details regarding Fax and the E- mail address. We can also add Notes for
ledger account. This option is available for all ledgers. This is useful to add remarks or notes
about the ledger like the credit worthiness of the party. In this context we create in the single
ledger option to bring up the Single Ledger screen. We setup “Conveyance” ledger under the
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7.3 DISPLAY OF INDIVIDUAL LEDGER
Accounts Info Ledgers Display
Select this option to view Account Ledgers individually
.List of Ledgers would be displayed to select the ledger you wish
to view. On selection of a ledger, it would be displayed which
you can view but not alter the information.
7.4 ALTERATION OF INDIVIDUAL LEDGER
Accounts Info Ledgers Alter
Select the option ‘Alter from Single Ledger’ to
get list of Ledgers from which you may select the ledger
to carry out desired modification and save by pressing
<Ctrl>+<A>.
In this context we already create in the single
ledger option “Conveyance” ledger under the “Indirect
Expenses” group. We change the Ledger option instead
of “Conveyance” into “Traveling Allowance” under the
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7.5 DELETION OF INDIVIDUAL LEDGER
To Delete, select the ledger in Alteration mode,
press <Alt> + <D> and respond with Yes to confirm
deletion. However, if the ledger is transacted in any
voucher, the message would not appear and you cannot
delete the ledger.
7.6 CREATION OF MULTIPLE LEDGERS
Accounts Info Ledgers cReate
Select cReate under Multiple Ledgers for creation of multiple ledgers screen. You can
also create many ledger accounts on a particular group at a single time. This option would be
useful when you create many accounts under one group like different expenses (Rent, Salary,
Interest, Commission etc.) under the group Indirect Expenses. You may find this option more
convenient when you have to create many ledgers continuously. On selection of this option, a
screen appears as shown in below.
In top part select the parent group and at bottom create the ledgers in the columnar table.
Under group
Here you have to select the parent group under which you wish to create ledgers. In the list
of Groups pop-up, besides groups you get an additional option all items are shown. If all the
ledgers you wish to create are to be placed under a single group, select the group from List of
group’s pop-up – that would ensure faster master creation as you need not to select the parent
group for each ledger. However, if parent group varies from ledger, you should select All Items
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Field Name Particulars
S.No
Name of Ledger
Under
Opening Balance
Serial Number of the entry is displayed for
reference, however cursor does not move
here.
Enter Name of the Ledger you are creating.
If you select any group at the first field of
the screen, i.e., Under Group, the selected
group name is displayed here and cursor
does not move to this field. However if you
select All Items, you have to select the
parent Group for each ledger at this field
from the List of Groups.
Enter here opening balance for the ledger, if
any. At Dr/Cr field, enter D or C. if you
have opted to maintain bill wise balance for
the company, Bill wise allocation screen
would appear on entering opening balance
for any ledger. On entering allocation entry,
cursor would return to the main screen
prompting to enter next ledger.
Thus you can create multiple ledgers in one single entry screen. To terminate further entry,
press <Enter> on blank line and respond Yes to the query Accept? Yes or No.
7.7 ALTERATION OF MULTIPLE LEDGERS
Accounts Info Ledgers ALTER
To alter multiple ledgers in a single screen, select this option. On selecting this option, List
of Groups would be displayed to select fro which you wish to alter ledgers. To alter ledgers
under a specific group, select it, to alter ledgers under multiple parent groups, select All Items.
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7.8 BUTTONS IN MULTIPLE LEDGER CREATION
Multi ledger alteration screen have the following button for user transaction.
7.8.1 COMPANY
This button becomes active when more than one company is selected to enable you to select
another company. You can copy the same ledgers (from source company) into the selected
company (target company) by accepting the screen (or pressing <Ctrl> + <A>) at the target
company.
7.8.2 PARENT
Clicking this button (or pressing F4) moves cursor to Under Group field at top part directly.
Useful when you have enter few ledgers in the columnar list and wish to change parent group. In
normal course you had to press <shift + Tab> or <Backspace> at each field to move to Under
Group field. This button lets you to move cursor instantly.
7.8.3 NEW PARENT
Upon altering ledgers under a group, if you wish to select ledgers under another group, click
this button (or press Ctrl + F4) that would bring List of Groups to select from. Although both
buttons F4: Parent and F4: new parent relates to parent, both have different functions. Clicking
F4: Parent would change the parent group for the ledgers you are altering in the current screen
while clicking F4: New Parent button would bring list of groups to select a group which would in
turn would display ledgers under the group of alteration.
7.8.4 ZERO OPENING BALANCE
If you wish to initialize the opening balance for all ledgers, click this button. This button is
particularly useful when you copy masters from one company with balance. With a single action
you can wipe out the opening balance.
7.8.5 SKIP NAMES
In case you need not to modify ledger name, click this button which would skip the Ledger
Name field for faster alteration.
7.8.6 SKIP PARENTS
In case you need not to modify Group name, click this button which would skip the Group
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7.8.7 SKIP DETAILS
On clicking this button, cursor would skip the opening balance field. In case you need not to
modify opening balance, click this button that would skip opening balance and allied fields for
faster alteration. This button toggles between Skip Details and Edit Details.
7.8.8 CHANGE SORT
To alter sorting position index values, click this button that would display the Sorting
Position Index in a new Column. BY default all ledgers are assigned 1000, you may assign new
values. If you do not wish to alter sorting position, click this button again to remove sorting
position column. This button toggles between Chg Sort and Skip sort
7.9 LETS SUM UP
1) Ledger account heads are the actual account heads to which we identify the
transactions, that is passing of all vouchers using ledger
2) Tally creates the following two ledgers (i) Cash under Cash-in-hand group, (ii) Profit
& Loss Account under Primary Ledger.
3) Single Ledger creation short cut is Gate way of Tally -à Account info --à Ledgers -à
Create
4) Single ledger Display short cut is Gate way of Tally -à Account info --à Ledgers -à
Display
5) Single ledger Alteration short cut is Gate way of Tally -à Account info --à Ledgers -à
Alter
6) In Gate way of Tally -à Account info --à Ledgers -à Multiple Ledgers , after that
choose the key ‘R’ for Create new Multiple Ledger, ‘I’ for Display the existing multiple
ledger data and ‘T’ for Alter the multiple ledger data.
7) Multiple ledger alteration window , activate the company, parent, new parent, zero
opening balance, skip name, skip parents, skip details and column change sort for further
transaction.
A. List down changes needed in Ledger configuration menu.
B. Mention the create, alter and display key board shortcut for single ledger
creation
C. Discuss any one of the Multi ledger creation feature.
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1) Explain process of creation of ledger.
2) What is meant by Display of Individual Ledger.
3) Explain the creation & alteration of multiple ledger.
4) What are the buttons available in multiple ledger creation?

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UNIT – IV
LESSON – 8: MEANING OF TALLY VOUCHERS
CONTENTS
8.0 Aim And Objectives
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Predefined Vouchers
8.2.1 Contra Voucher
8.2.2 Payment Voucher
8.2.3 Receipt Voucher
8.2.4 Journal Voucher
8.2.5 Sales Voucher / Invoice
8.2.6 Credit Note Voucher
8.2.7 Purchase Voucher
8.2.8 Debit Note Voucher
8.2.9 Memo Voucher
8.3 Gateway of Voucher Transaction
8.4 Payment Voucher Entry Rule
8.5 Receipt Voucher Entry Rule
8.6 Gateway of Payment Vouchers
8.7 Gateway of Receipt Vouchers
8.8 Voucher Entry special key
8.9 Let Us Sum Up
8.10 Check Your Progress
In this Unit we will discuss the need of Vouchers and also the Payment voucher and
Receipts voucher transaction. After going through this unit, you will be able to,
i) List down feature of Predefined vouchers
ii) Discuss the Entry rule of the vouchers
iii) Describe special key combination involved in vouchers
iv) Distinguish single entry and double entry mode
8.1 INTRODUCTION
A voucher is a written document in support of a transaction. It is a proof that a particular
transaction has taken place for the value stated in the voucher. Voucher is necessary to audit the
accounts.
In manual accounting, the transactions are recorded through journal entries whereas in Tally
they are done through voucher entry. Tally provides 21 predefined vouchers that can be used for
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some cases, a voucher can be used for different purposes. For example, purchase vouchers can be
used as invoices, or vouchers can be made optional etc., which can be decided at the time of
voucher entry by selecting the appropriate key. You can also alter these vouchers according to
your company and also create a new voucher.
They are two types of vouchers namely
* Accounting voucher
* Inventory voucher
8.2 PREDEFINED VOUCHERS
Tally provides following pre defined types of Vouchers to record Accounting transactions,
which we split into 3 sets for convenience of understanding.
Set 1
[To record non-cash
transactions (normally
entered in Journals)]
Set 2
[To record Cash (and
Bank) transactions]
Set 3
[Special
Vouchers having
exclusive
applications]
Voucher Types Sales
Purchase
Debit Note
Credit Note
Receipt
Payment
Contra
Memo
Reverse Journal
8.2.1 Contra voucher
Contra Voucher is for entering Fund Transfer transaction where net Inflow and Outflow
are equal, i.e., net effect is Zero. Here you can enter transaction between Cash and Bank
Accounts. Press <F4> at the Voucher Entry screen to enter Contra Voucher
For example:
Cash withdrawn from Bank: Outflow from bank account, equal cash Inflow.
Cash deposited into Bank: Cash Outflow, equal Inflow at Bank Account.
8.2.2 Payment voucher
All transactions related to payment are recorded in Payment Voucher. Such payments can
be towards purchase, expenses, loans and advances given by you or repayment of
loans/advances taken by you earlier etc. Press <F5> at the voucher entry screen to make a
Payment Voucher.
For example:
Purchase a new computer from ABCs InfoTech Private Limited.
8.2.3 Receipt voucher
All inflow of money is recorded through Receipt Voucher. Such receipts may be towards
any income or from debtors or Loans/Advances taken or Refund of Loans/Advances
given earlier etc. The voucher is similar to payment voucher except that you debit cash or
bank A/c’s and credit the Ledger from which you receive. Press <F6> at the voucher
entry screen to make a Receipt Voucher.
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Journal Voucher is an Adjustment Voucher, used for non-cash transactions like
adjustment between ledger accounts, Provision for Liabilities, Income Receivables, Depreciation
& all other provisions are common examples of Journal Voucher. Pass a journal voucher when
you want to adjust amount between two or more ledger accounts, without affecting Cash or Bank
Accounts. Press <F7> at the voucher entry screen to make a Journal Voucher.
8.2.5 Sales voucher / invoice
All Sale transactions (goods or services) are entered in Sales Voucher. In case of Cash
Sales, you receive payment immediately by Cash or by Cheque or Credit Card and since you do
not require tracking Outstanding (as payment has already been received, so there is no need to
create a separate ledger for the buyer who has paid immediately). Instead of making one Sales
Voucher debiting the party and another Receipt Voucher crediting the party, you can create a
composite Sales Voucher. In the first entry, instead of Party Ledger, you can select Cash or Bank
Account (with whom you deposit the cheque) or Credit Card organisation. The entry would
appear in Sales Register as well in Cash (or Bank) Book. Press<F8> at the voucher Entry screen
to enter Sales voucher.
8.2.6 Credit note voucher
By default Credit Note voucher would not be available. If you activate the option Use
Debit/ Credit Notes for the company under Features, you can select this voucher upon clicking
either F7: Journal orF8: Sales buttons. A Credit Note is generally issued when a buyer returns
some goods that you sold him (Sales Returns) or if you grant him credit due to rate difference or
discount (rebate or due to some reason now you like to square off a debit balance.
8.2.7 Purchase voucher
Any purchase transactions are entered in Purchase Voucher.
In case of Cash Purchase, you make payment immediately by Cash or by Cheque and you
do not require tracking Outstanding. Instead of making one Purchase Voucher crediting the party
and another Payment Voucher debiting the party, you can create a composite Purchase Voucher.
In the first entry, instead of Party Ledger, you can select Cash or Bank Account. The entry would
appear in Purchase Register as well in Cash (or Bank) Book. Press <F9> at Voucher Entry screen
to enter a Purchase Voucher.
8.2.8 Debit note voucher
By default Debit Note voucher would not be available. If you activate the option Use Debit/
Credit Notes for the company under Features, you can select this voucher upon clicking either
F7: Journal and F9: Purchase buttons. Normally a Debit Note is entered when you make
purchase Return or have short-billed a customer or your suppliers have granted Credit to you on
account of rate difference, discount etc.
8.2.9 Memo voucher
Memo voucher is another provisional voucher and the entries made using this voucher
would not affect your accounts. That is, Tally does not post these entries to ledgers but stores
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regular voucher later when you decide to bring the entry into your books. Apart from the option
to include in Scenarios, Memorandum vouchers can also be used, for applications like
Ø Making suspense payments
Ø Vouchers not verified at time of entry
Ø Items given on approval
8.3 GATEWAY OF VOUCHER TRANSACTION
Gateway of Tally and Press F12 configuration menu. You have the sub menu Voucher
Entry and configure it depends upon your transaction. This Screen looking like,
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8.4 PAYMENT VOUCHER ENTRY RULE
Payment Voucher rules stated below:
Particulars Debit Credit
Dr Ledger Accounts Paid to (Amount)
Cr Cash/ Bank Account (Amount)
Entry Rules:
The first entry is always Debit and Second entry onwards you may select Debit or Credit. In
a Payment Voucher at least one ledger account placed under the Cash in Hand, Bank Accounts
or Bank OCC Group must be credited, otherwise the voucher will not be accepted and you would
get an error message. You can enter many entries in a single payment Voucher.
8.5 RECEIPTS VOUCHER ENTRY RULE
Receipt Voucher rules stated below:
Particulars Debit Credit
Cr Ledger Account Received from (Amount)
Dr Cash/Bank Account (Amount)

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The first entry is always Credit and second entry onwards you may specify Debit or Credit.
At least one ledger Account placed under the Cash in Hand, Bank Accounts or Bank OCC group
must be debited, and otherwise the voucher will not be accepted.
8.6 GATEWAY OF PAYMENT VOUCHERS
For example the company settles a creditor’s bill by cheques
Particulars Amount Amount
Bangalore Cyber division 7500
Bank Account 7500
In Gateway of Tally > Accounting Vouchers > Press F5 to enter the Payment voucher. For
this movement to create a new Ledger information means press <Alt>+<C> and create the
Bangalore Cyber division under Sundry Creditors and Bank Account under Bank Accounts
means you have the following payment voucher screen.
8.7 GATEWAY OF RECEIPTS VOUCHERS
For example the company receives notice that interest has been credited to its deposit
account.
Particulars Amount Amount
Bank Interest 1750
Deposit account 1750
In Gateway of Tally > Accounting Vouchers > Press F6 to enter the Receipts voucher.
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Bank Interest under Indirect incomes and Deposit account under Bank Account means you have
the following receipts voucher screen.
8.8 VOUCHER ENTRY SPECIAL KEY
Following are the list of key combinations for some special tasks during voucher entry.
<Alt< + <C> Ledger Creation : Pressing these keys together at particulars
column (where you select Account Ledger from pop-up window)
will bring Ledger Creation screen to create New ledger during
voucher Entry (as described in ledger creation screen pressing
<Alt>+>C> at Group pad will bring Group Creation screen).
Upon creation of New Ledger, cursor will return to the same
location of Voucher picking the newly created ledger (by default)
in the Account amount paid to continue Voucher entry.
Calculator : Pressing <Alt> + <C> at amount field activates the
Calculator (the bottom pane) to Auto Value Calculator where you
can perform all sort of calculations, pressing <Enter> pastes
computed values to the numeric pad. Press <Ctrl> + <M> to
return to Voucher screen.
In any screen, by pressing <Ctrl> + <N>, you can switch to the
Calculator.
<Ctrl> + <A> Pressing these keys together during Voucher Entry will save the
Voucher without prompting [Accept? Yes or No] to quicken
voucher Entry. This is particularly useful when you alter just one
or two data and all other data in the voucher remains the same, in
such event, instead of pressing <Enter> at every field to reach to
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<Ctrl> + <R> Repeats data entered in the field, during previous entry. For
example, you wish to enter same narration in the current voucher
as was entered in the previous voucher (or wish to make a slight
alteration), press <Ctrl> + <R> at narration box, narration entered
in previous voucher will re-appear here (you can carry out
necessary alteration thereto)
<Alt> + <R> Instead of repeating the narration entered in earlier voucher
relating to the first ledger account, i.e., it repeats ledger-context
narration.
8.9 LET US SUM UP
1) A voucher is a written document in support of a transaction. It is a proof that a
Particular transaction has taken place for the value stated in the voucher.
2) They are two types of vouchers used in Tally software namely Accounting voucher
Inventory voucher
3) To record non cash transaction means Sales, Purchase, Debit Note and Credit Note
voucher are used
4) To record cash and bank transaction means Receipt,Payment and Contra vouchers are
used
5) Memo and Reverse Journal are special voucher category
6) Press <F5> at the voucher entry screen to make a Payment Voucher.
7) Press <F6> at the voucher entry screen to make a Receipt Voucher.
A. List down any 2 feature of payment voucher
B. Write down the steps to activate voucher configuration
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1. Write the meaning of Tally vouchers.
2. Explain the predefined vouchers and give it components.
a) Payment voucher entry rule.
b) Receipts voucher entry rule.
c) Gateway of payment vouchers.
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LESSON 9: POSTING TALLY VOUCHERS
CONTENTS
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Voucher Creation
9.2.1. Voucher Header
9.2.2. Voucher Body Part
9.2.3. Voucher Amount
9.2.4. Narration
9.3 Saving Voucher
9.4 Deletion of Voucher
9.5 Cancellation of Voucher
9.6 Voucher Printing
9.7 Cursor Movement within the Voucher Screen
9.8 Post Dated Voucher
9.9 Let Us Sum Up
In this unit we will discuss the need of voucher environment and also key components of
delete, cancel and printing a voucher. After going through this unit, you will be able to ,
i) List down the voucher entry field properties
ii) Discuss the Entering and exiting method of voucher
iii) Distinguish delete and cancel a voucher
iv) Describe the cursor movement in voucher screen
9.1 INTRODUCTION
In a voucher, a transaction is recorded. Some examples of a transaction that needs a voucher
is given below:
1. Payment for wages to employees
2. Withdrawal of cash from bank account.
3. Provision of Depreciation for Fixed Assets
4. Appropriation of Profit to Partner's Capital Accounts
In the first example, Payment for wages to employees is undoubtedly a genuine fiscal
transaction, as money is paid out. Obviously, it must be recorded through a voucher. In the
second event, withdrawal of cash from bank, though no real transaction is made (as neither
money is paid out, nor received), in accounting terms, it is still a valid transaction needing a
voucher to record the entry, as bank & cash balances get affected. In the third example, though
no monetary transaction takes place, the recording of accounting adjustments to reflect the true
profit and the value of assets, a voucher is needed. The fourth example also reflects the effect of
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9.2 VOUCHER CREATION
All the records of transaction entered through a Voucher Entry Screen. To enter the
Voucher , Gateway of Tally > Account Vouchers you have the following screen.
9.2.1 VOUCHER HEADER
Left Side : Displays Voucher Type, Voucher Number
Type of Voucher : Selected Vouchers Type is shown at the top left corner.
Voucher Number : To identify a voucher uniquely, normally every voucher is given a
unique number. The number may be allotted by the user, or can be automatically
generated by Tally, according to options set in Voucher Types under Accounts Info.
Tally provides 3 options for Voucher Numbering: (1) Automatic (2) Manual (3) none.
If Automatic is opted for the selected Voucher Type, Tally allots incremental
number and cursor would not move here, this you can not change voucher number.
If Manual is specified for the selected voucher type, cursor would blink at the
Voucher Number field to input from keyboard. You can modify the Voucher Number,
If none is opted for the selected Voucher type, Voucher number field would not
appear.
9.2.2 VOUCHER BODY PART
Transaction data is entered in the Body Part of Voucher. To/By (or Dr/Cr) is pre-decided
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onwards, cursor moves to the first column where you have to select Dr or Cr (or By/To),
according to selection in the first column, cursor moves to the Debit or Credit Amount Column
upon selection of Ledger. However, in Sales, Purchase, Debit Note and Credit Note Vouchers,
second entry is also pre-decided, from 3rd
column onwards cursor moves to this column. We
have explained Entry rules for each voucher later. To select by, press B, T to select To, if you
type any other character, an error message would be displayed. You can set Dr and Cr instead of
To and By, by responding Yes to the query Use Cr/Dr instead of To/By during entry at voucher
configuration screen. In such case press D to select Dr and C to select Cr.
9.2.3 VOUCHER AMOUNT
Depending on your selection at the first column (Dr or Cr, To or By), Cursor would move to
the appropriate Amount column. Type here the transaction amount. In case you need to
calculate, press <Alt>+<C>, cursor would move to the Calculator and activates it as Auto Value
Calculator where you can type your values and operators. On pressing<Enter>, cursor would
return to the amount field of Voucher, pasting the computed value automatically moving cursor
to the next field.
You can enter many debit and many credit entries in a single voucher. When the total of
Debit and Credit would be equal, transaction entry part would be treated as complete and cursor
would move to Narration field.
9.2.4 NARRATION
Here describe details of transactions entered in the Voucher. You can write long text, the
letters would get crumpled to fit into the limited space . The text becomes illegible as you type
more (so you may not be able to see what you are typing and your typing mistakes). In printing,
the size of the font would be reduced as required (our recommendation, keep the narration brief).
If you set the option Narrations with each entry to Yes for the Voucher type, you would be
prompted to enter Narration immediately after each entry (debit or credit) of the voucher. If you
set Yes to Use Common Narration, you will get Narration field upon completing all the entries
where you enter narration that is common for all the entries .You can set both Narration options
or either or can turn off both.
To edit Narration, press <Home> to reach beginning of the narration, pressing <End> takes
to end, arrow keys moves one character each time in the direction, to jump one word at a time
press <Ctrl> + <Arrow keys>. You cab toggle between insert and overwrite mode by pressing
<Insert> key-in insert mode the cursor is a blinking line, in Overwrite mode it is a blinking
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Example :
The company settles Rs.12, 500 to creditor’s bill by Cheque. This entry looking like,
9.3 SAVING VOUCHER
Upon entering Narration, press <Enter> that would prompt a confirmation for saving
(Accept? Yes or No). Responding No would take back cursor to the first entry to carry out any
modification. Respond Yes to Save. Upon Saving the voucher, a blank voucher entry screen
would appear to continue voucher entry. To terminate voucher entry press <Esc> you would get
the query Quit ? yes or No. Respond Yes to quit. To save a Voucher quickly, instead of pressing
<Enter>, press <Ctrl>+<A>, the Voucher will be saved without seeking your confirmation. This
facility speeds up saving a Voucher, particularly helpful in Alteration mode where you may
change very few information and which to retain all others intact. This facility is available for all
Master, Vouchers, Feature, Configuration screens of Tally.
9.4 DELETION OF VOUCHER
In the Gateway of menu > Display > Account Books > Ledgers > Choose the ledger Asian
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Like Alteration of master, you may delete a voucher in Alteration Mode, Press <Alt>+<D>
to delete the voucher. A confirmation will be sought. Click Yes (or press Y) to delete the
voucher.
9.5 CANCELLATION OF VOUCHER
Cancellation of voucher means deleting the voucher without physically moved. For
example, you have opted auto numbering for Sales Voucher. A voucher was subsequently
cancelled. By canceling the voucher you ensure that the voucher number would not be assigned
to subsequent voucher. You can cancel a voucher by pressing <Alt>+<X> in voucher alteration
mode. Like deletion, a confirmation would be sought, Cancel Yes or No? To cancel the voucher,
click yes (or press Y). The cancelled voucher would appear in list of voucher or registers (but
with no amount).
Points to remember to Delete or Cancel a voucher
Although no thumb rule can be defined when to delete a voucher and when to cancel a
voucher, we elaborate side-effects of both so that you should determine what suits in your
situation. Footprint: When you delete a voucher, it leaves no footprint while cancellation does
so. If you wish to track the vouchers cancelled, you may prefer canceling a voucher over
deletion. However if you are worried of tracks, deletion is the only option. Renumbering: if you
have obtained for automatic numbering for the selected voucher type and selected to re-number
over long period, on deleting a voucher, subsequent vouchers for the period would be re-
numbered automatically, without seeking your confirmation.
9.6 VOUCHER PRINTING
You can print any Voucher by clicking Print button (or by pressing <Alt>+<P>) before
saving the Voucher. If you have responded Yes to the query Print after saving Voucher under
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Printing Voucher Option : You can print Payment Voucher on-line. To print the Voucher,
before saving the voucher (i.e., when you have finished entering Narration), press <Alt>+<P>
(or click Print button) that brings the printing screen asking Print? Yes or No. Respond Y (to
indicate Yes) the Voucher will be printed. To change the print configuration, press F12:
Configure, print configuration screen would appear where you can specify the height & width of
paper, space to leave on top, whether you want to print Bill wise and Cost Centre wise details
also, space to be left for. If you want to print in Quick Format, i.e., in simple ASCII format
(without any print enhancement like Bold, compression etc), click the Quick Format button, to
print multiple copies, click the Copies button, enter number of copies to be printed. This printing
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9.7 CURSOR MOVEMENT WITHIN THE VOUCHER SCREEN
If you need to alter any information in the voucher screen, you can move cursor to previous
field, by pressing <Shift> +<Tab> or <Backspace>, and to move to the next field press <Enter>
or <Tab>.Quit: To quit at any point, press <Esc>, your confirmation will be sought, Quit? Yes
or No. Respond Yes to Quit. If you do not get this confirmation, press <Esc> again (when you
press <Esc> at any field, first it erases the contents of the field, on pressing second time you get
the query). To Quit without any confirmation, instead press <Ctrl>+<Q> (this saves 1 to 2
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Buttons
In you voucher entry screen , you have the following buttons
(at right panel i.e., Button Bar).
Buttons Function
F2: Chg Date
F3: Company
F4: Contra
F5: Payment
F6: Receipt
F7: Journal
F8: Sales
F9: Purchase
F10: Memos
Post Dated
Optional
F11: Features
F12: Configure
To change Date of Voucher of Effective Date.
To Change the Company you are working.
To Create Contra Voucher.
To Create Payment Voucher.
To Create Receipt Voucher To create Receipt Voucher.
To create Journal, Debit/Credit Note Voucher.
To create Sales Voucher/Credit Note Voucher.
To create Purchase Voucher / Debit Not Voucher.
To create Memorandum or Reverse Journal Voucher.
To create Post Dated Voucher.
To create Optional Voucher.
To change Company Features.
To change configuration of Voucher for all Companies.
9.8 POST DATED VOUCHER
While entering vouchers, you can post- date them, and Tally will ignore them until the date
in question. This is most useful for entering transactions that take place on a regular basis. For
example, if you pay something by installments, you setup the payments in advance, and Tally
will only enter them in the ledger as they fall due. You mark a voucher as Post-dated while
creating alternating it.
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9.9 LET US SUM UP
1) All the records of transaction entered through a Voucher Entry Screen.
2) Tally provides 3 options for Voucher Numbering: (1) Automatic (2) Manual (3) none.
3) Transaction data is entered in the Body Part of Voucher. To/By or Dr/Cr is pre-
decided for first entry in each type of voucher
4) In case you need to calculate, press <Alt>+<C>, cursor would move to the Calculator
and activates it as Auto Value Calculator where you can type your values and
operators.
5) To edit Narration, press <Home> to reach beginning of the narration, pressing <End>
takes to end, arrow keys moves one character each time in the direction, to jump one
word at a time press <Ctrl> + <Arrow keys>.
6) To cancel a voucher by pressing <Alt>+<X> in voucher alteration mode.
7) To move cursor in the voucher screen , by pressing <Shift> +<Tab> or <Backspace>,
and to move to the next field press <Enter> or <Tab>.
A. List down any five voucher screen buttons name
B. Mention any two points to remember the Delete or Cancel a voucher
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1) How to create the voucher?
2) What is saving of vouchers?
3) Differentiate deletion and cancellation of vouchers.
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UNIT – V
LESSON 10: USE OF SECURITY CONTROL
CONTENTS
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Need of Security Control
10.3 Activate security control feature
10.4 Create security level
10.5 Create security level definition
10.5.1 Name of security level
10.5.2 Use of basic facilities
10.5.3 Days allowed for back dated vouchers
10.5.4 Cut-off date for back dated vouchers
10.6 User name and password environment
10.7 Security menu Display and Alteration
10.8 Load a company with security level
10.9 Let us sum up
In this Unit we will discuss the need of security control and also the user name and
administrator password environment. After going through this unit, you will be able to,
i) Describe active security control feature
ii) List down the security level features
iii) Discuss the administrator security provisions
iv) Define binary encoding format
10.1 INTRODUCTION
Tally offers extremely high reliability data. Tally uses a flexi-field, flexi-length, self
indexed weighted file structure for an extremely compact and fast database. Tally is robust and
will not be affected even if there is a power failure or if the machine is shut down while the
system is still functioning and hence there will be no data loss. Tally uses signaling quality data
integrity checks at regular levels to ensure complete reliability of data. Tally use of data integrity
checks ensures that no external change to the data can pass thru Tally. It also uses a binary
encoding format of storage to prevent designing grouping of information. It also offers access to
the database thru an ODBC layer, which is fully activated.
10.2 NEED OF SECURITY CONTROL
Security is one of the major concerns for computer system. All your valuable data is kept in
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prying eyes nor is it manipulated by unauthorized persons. Password protection is a common
method of computer security. An authorized person assigns a secret word called password. This
word is then specified computer operation. Any person, who does not know the password, they
are not able to enter the system. So your system remains protected.
Security Control is required in an environment where many people work on the accounts on
the same computer or the same set of accounts on a network. In a typical business environment,
different levels of staff will have different responsibilities and consequently different authorities.
Tally has a variety of management reports that are sensitive in nature as also the flexibility to
create, alter, display and print any information. Security Control system of Tally is used to set
the authority rights of groups of people to prevent of allow them to do any or more of the
following in the different areas of Tally: create, alter and display .Security Control may even be
used to prevent other people from using the system. Tally has a very customizable security
system. You can set up authority levels and users who are placed at theses levels. The authority
levels or Types of Security decide the right of the users. Tally has a very customizable security
system.
10.3 ACTIVATE SECURITY CONTROL FEATURE
1. From the Gateway of Tally of ABC Software private Ltd
Press Alt +F3 to bring up the Company Information menu.
2. Select Alter Press [Enter] and reselect ABC Software Ltd
you will get the Company Alteration Screen.
3. Press [Enter] till you reach the line “ Use Security Control”
set it to YES.
(remember , we had set this option No while creating the company)
4. An additional line appears asking for the name of the administrator
type “Master and for password type “Master” repeats the
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5. Shut the company and select ABC Software Ltd once again (don’t select the
Tally Vaulted Company).
6. Tally prompts for the user name and password as per this screen
7. Give the details as per what you entered in the Company Alteration screen
and accept it. Remember, this is the highest security level that can access
all the data of the particular company.
8. If you give the correct user name and password – Tally loads the company
and displays the Gateway of Tally.
10.4 CREATE SECURITY LEVEL
1. From the Gateway of Tally of ABC software private Ltd use, Alt+ F3 and view the
Company Info menu.
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The menu allows you to define the security access under Types of Security and the user
name and password for that access level under Users and Passwords. Company info menu >
SEcurity control >Types of Security > Data Entry > [Down Arrow](Press the down arrow
key at the option data entry.)This is one of the few places in Tally where you create a new entry
in this fashion.
1. Type the new security level, e.g. Data Entry, supervisor, supernatant, clerk and
Account Manager
2. Each and every security levels entries; we have the certain list of security level definition.
Depend on the rights given by the administrator. For example in our office we have to maintain
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10.5 CREATE SECURITY LEVEL DEFINITION
1. Under the List of Security Levels by default you will get Data entry.
2. Use the down cursor key and bring the highlight to the next line and
Type “Account Manager”.
3. Press [Enter] which brings up the Level definition Screen.
10.5.1 NAME OF SECURITY LEVEL
This defaults of the name you had created
10.5.2 USE OF BASIC FACILITIES
The default is the owner. However the other option is also available Data entry. The popup
list does not appear when you are at the field. Press O to beginning and type the word. Going
back from the next field will also be showed. The new level account manger will, likewise be
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10.5.3 DAYS ALLOWED FOR BACK DATED VOUCHERS
This is the number of days the users of this level are allowed to alter Back-dated vouchers.
Specifying O will indicate that back dated voucher are not allowed and 14 will allow the user at
this level to insert vouchers going back 14 days . here, enter 0, This is only effective if you
disallow back dated entries in disallow column.
10.5.4 CUT-OFF DATE FOR BACK DATED VOUCHERS
Specify the dates before which users of this profile or security level may not create or alter
vouchers. This is additional control over and above previous ‘Days allowed’. This is useful in
cases where you have completed you tax assessment for a period and no changes and desired in
the data for that period Level. We give the appropriate level of definition. The remaining screen
is divided into two sub columns. The left side is to disallow access to the various options of the
systems. The right side allows the security level different facilities. The sub-columns are types of
access and list of reports under both allow and disallow facilities enter the type of access you
wish to give and the option sought to be controlled. Once the entry is completed select end of list
from type of access fields to complete the allocation.
10.6 USER AND PASSWORDS ENVIRONMENT
Tally has a very customizable security system. You can set up authority levels and users
who are placed at these levels. The authority levels or Types of Security decide the rights of the
users – what they can or cannot do when using Tally. Tally has two security types already set up.
One is Owner and the other Data Entry. Owner has full access and rights to all parts of Tally,
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Data Entry has restricted rights. You are allowed to create other security types based on these
predefined types and allow more or less rights as required. Suppose different users work with the
Tally software, to assign separate password for each of them. Select this option at security
control menu which brings the following screen.
Name of the user : Enter Name of the user in this column is Account Manager
Password : Enter Password for the user is “A_Manager”
Security Level : Select the security level from the pop-up to which the user
belongs. Upon completion of user, cursor moves to next line
to create another user. This way goes on creating of many
users, press<ctrl> + <A> to save the information.
10.7 SECURITY MENU DISPLAY AND ALTERATION
There is no separate menu option to alter or display security option. Use the same menu to
display or alter user or security set-up. To delete a user, simply blank out the user name and
accept the screen. Do the same for security level. If you have defined a user under security level
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10.8 LOAD A COMPANY WITH SECURITY LEVEL
1. First of all you must be select the existing company ABC Software Private
Limited.
(Open the company info menu or Press <Alt>+<F3> in Gateway of Tally)
2. You have the following Select Company Screen
3. Choose the ABC Software Private Limited
4. Small window will be appeared and asked to enter the user name and password to
Work in their level. (This window looking like)
5. Using the window
Type Name of the User: Master
Password (if any) : Master
We have setup a password to that level. The Gateway of tally screen appears as,

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This window shows, the “Master” user have full rights to view the balance sheet.
6. Now you shut the company ABC Software Private Limited
(In Gateway of Tally -à press Alt + F3 and choose the shut company menu)
7. Once again select the ABC Software Private limited and open the company with
the following user name and password.
Type Name of the User: Account Manger
Password (if any) : A_Manager
We have setup the user name and password to “Account Manager” level. The Gateway of
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This window shows, the “Account Manager” user have no rights to view the balance sheet.
10.9 LETUS SUM UP
1). Tally uses a flexi-field, flexi-length, self indexed weighted file structure for an
extremely compact and fast database.
2) Security is one of the major concerns for computer system. All your valuable data is
kept in electronic form which may consist of many trade secrets.
3) The menu allows you to define the security access under Types of Security and the
user name and password for that access level under Users and Passwords. Company
info menu > SEcurity control >Types of Security
A. List down 2 feature of security control system
B. Write down the steps to activate security control
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1) Explain the importance of security control techniques.
2) How to activate security control features.
3) Explain the creation of security level.
4) Give the meaning of USER and PASSWORDS environments.

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LESSON - 11: TALLY AUDIT FEATURES
CONTENTS
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Security Mode Options
11.2.1 User Defined Security Level
11.2.2 Tally Audit
11.2.3 Tally Vault
11.3 Activate Tally Audit
11.4 Display Voucher Audit List
11.4.1 Accept One
11.4.2 Accept All
11.4.3 Configure
11.5 Display Ledger Audit List
11.5.1 Accept Buttons
11.5.2 All Accounts/Audit List
11.6 Features of Tally Audit
11.7 Safety and Confidentiality of Data
11.8 Safety Data Web Tijori
11.9 Let Us Sum Up
11.11 Lesson-end Activities
In this Unit we will discuss the need of Tally audit features and also the administrative
changes using Tally audit environment. After going through this unit, you will be able to,
i. Describe activity of Tally audit
ii. List down the benefits of Voucher audit list
iii. Discuss Ledger audit list environment
iv. Define audit list buttons
11.1 INTRODUCTION
Tally Audit provides the capability to the administrator or auditor to track changes in the
accounts following his previous review. Changes of two areas are important. The change in
transactions of vouchers and changes in ledger masters. Only material changes are considered,
i.e., a change in the narration does not affect the integrity of a transaction, hence it would not be
considered as changed. Any other change in a voucher is material and would be logged.
11.2 SECURITY MODE OPTIONS
Security is one of the major concerns for computer system. Your valuable data is kept in
electronic form which may consist of many trade secrets. You may prefer to ensure that the data
does not fall into prying eyes nor it is manipulated by unauthorized persons.

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11.2.1 USER DEFINED SECURITY LEVEL
Tally offers high levels of security. The user can define multiple levels of security as per his
requirements and every authorized user in the company can have individual passwords with
rights to use specific features only. The user with administrator level password will have full
access and can set controls to other users.
11.2.2 TALLY AUDIT
Tally audit feature provides the user with administrator rights; capabilities to audit for the
correctness of the entries made by authorized users and alter them if needed. Once entries are
audited, if there are any alterations made to those entries then Tally will display all the altered
entries along with the name of the user who has altered the entry and date and time of alteration.
11.2.3 TALLY VAULT
Give a password here if you want the company data to be maintained in an encrypted form.
This is known as Tally Vault. It is an enhanced security feature. With the Tally Vault password
given, the data will be maintained permanently in an encrypted form without retaining
information of the password used. Without the Tally Vault password – the company cannot be
opened. Remember to keep this password private and known only to those who need to know. If
the password is lost, your data cannot be recovered.
11.3 ACTIVATE TALLY AUDIT
Tally Audit feature can be activated during creation of Company. If the company is already
created, then he can select the particular company and then select the option ‘Comp Info'
(Alt+F3) and then select ‘Alter' option.
Activate ‘Use Security control' -> specify Administrator Name & Password -> activate ‘Use
Tally Audit Features = yes’ and you have the following screen.

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Tally audit activated Menu
In the Gateway of tally > Display > Statement of
Accounts after that you have the screen components.
Tally Audit Menu

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11.4 DISPLAY VOUCHERS AUDIT LIST
It is recommended that the very first time you use Tally audit, go through the list and accept
all the vouchers. Do a disciplined verification of the list so that it is periodically cleared and only
vouchers that are of concern remain.
Display Statements of Accounts Tally Audit Vouchers
Now print the list for records. Assess each or all the entries for authenticity and accept.
F7:Accept One can be pressed after placing the cursor bar on the relevant voucher. This would
accept the voucher as valid and remove from this exception list. If you are satisfies that all the
vouchers are valid then press. F7: Accept All to accept them all together. Once you accept an
entry it is not available for listing. Hence it is recommended that you take a print before
acceptance.
Voucher audit Button functions
11.4.1 ACCEPT ONE (F7)
It helps to accept the Voucher on which cursor rests.
11.4.2 ACCEPT ALL (ALT + F7)
To accept all Vouchers together
Print/View the list of records , vouch individually and press F7 to accept the
particular Voucher or (<Alt> + <F7>) to accept all listed vouchers.It is
recommended that for first time you accept them all. To get full benefit of this
feature, you must routinely verify at periodical interval, accept those which are
not offending and keep a short list of those concerns you.
11.4.3 CONFIGURE
On pressing F12: Configure, a screen appears to configure the options as

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Format: You get 2 options, namely Condensed and Detailed. In Condensed format each voucher
is listed in one line and details of the other ledgers involved in the transactions are not displayed.
To get name of all ledgers transacted in the voucher, select Detailed.
To get Narration, Bill wise, Cost Center wise or Inventory wise Details, respond Yes to
respective Query. Show Entered /Altered By? If you want the information that Entered /Altered
the voucher to be displayed, respond Yes. This would display name of the user in last line of
every voucher against prompt Entered By.
11.5 DISPLAY LEDGER AUDIT LIST
To display the changes to ledger masters, follow the same steps as for vouchers. The listing
here differs from the vouchers in two ways namely:
Display Statements of Accounts Tally Audit Ledgers

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11.5.1 ACCEPT BUTTONS
Accept One (F7)
It helps to accept the Voucher on which cursor rests.
Accept all (Alt + F7)
To accept all Vouchers together
F12 Does not exist at this screen.
11.5.2 ALL ACCOUNTS/AUDIT LIST
F6: This is a toggle button to switch between display of Audit List (ledgers created or
altered after last verification) and all accounts (complete list of ledger accounts)By, default
screen appears in Audit list mode. If no ledgers have been created or modified since last review,
you may get a screen with no entries. If any ledger have been created or modified since last
review, only those Ledgers will be displayed along with name of User and date. Press F6: All
accounts, you will be presented with complete list of accounts. (Including created or altered after
last review with name and date of user) presented in columnar format with column heading: ID,
Name, Opening Balance, and Altered By (No heading for this column).
In a ledger, modification could be either in name or in the opening balance. If any Name has
been changed /interchanged you need to identify the fraudulent transfer of accounts. This is
possible through ID assigned to each Ledger account. It is recommended that you take a print of

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all the Ledgers accounts with their original ID and subsequently match with Audit Lists
periodically to identify any change.
11.6 FEATURES OF TALLY AUDIT
To take full advantage of this option, you should take following steps:
a) Upon setting up Ledger Accounts, view and print the list for future reference.
b) Accept the list (by pressing F7: Accept All), to clear the exceptions.
c) Plan for review at periodical interval, decide the interval and mark in Dairy.
i. Tally Audit feature should be enabled while creating the company and authority list.
ii. Only a user designated as an auditor or the administrator can view the audit list and
act upon it.
iii. Tally tracks all changes made to vouchers that are more than 30 days old. Hence,
changes to vouchers that are less than 30 days old are not reported. This is to allow
adequate time to correct mistakes.
iv. A change includes insertion of new transactions or accounts. You are not required to
make any additional input of data.
v. The authorized user simply needs to display Tally Audit list and may print out the
lists.
vi. Authenticity of the changes accepts either selectively or all of them (by clicking on
the relevant button). Once the changes are accepted, they are removed from the audit
list and would not be available again. If, however, a change is repeated, it is reflected
in the audit list.
11.7 SAFETY AND CONFIDENTIALITY OF DATA
TALLY LOCKER
Tally Locker is a mini vault like solid state device to be plugged at USB port, where you
may store data directly. In the Company creation screen enter the Tally Locker Drive at the
Directory field to create the Company data files directly at Tally Locker. You may take the Tally
Locker and plug it at USB port and work at any other place where Tally is loaded. Besides Tally
data, any other computer file can also be stored at Tally Locker or Backup can be taken in it.
Advantages of Tally Locker
· You can store all your information and slip it into your pocket. This means that the data is
stored at and read from the Tally Locker, and not in the hard disk of the system.
· To work with the data at different place and plug out from the system.
· Keep the files you wish to carry with you onto the device, where needed, plug and work
directly onto it. No need to copy that on floppy disk or CD and again copy to the original
system/computer.
· Most suitable for data backup. You can take back up of all your works onto the drive you
can also write directly accounts with tally in the devices for complete security.
· Small in size but can hold 16 Mb
· You can keep personal accounts truly personal
· Keep data away from prying eyes.

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11.8 SAFETY DATA WEB TIJORI
It is a specially configured web server protected by password, where user can upload
accounts data for ultimate safety and confidentiality. User can in fact upload accounts data or any
other confidential file onto the web server and be safe. Incase, you have a website, you can use it
as Web Tijori also, thus you can get twin benefit of having your website as well store data safely
from a single web server.
11.9 LET US SUM UP
i. Tally Audit provides the capability to the administrator or auditor to track changes in the
accounts
ii. Security is one of the major concerns for computer system. Your valuable data is kept in
electronic form which may consist of many trade secrets
iii. User defined security level offers high levels of security. The user can define multiple
levels of security as per his requirements and every authorized user in the company.
iv. Tally audit feature provides the user with administrator rights, a capability to audit for the
correctness of the entries made by authorized users
v. Tally Vault password will be maintained permanently in an encrypted form without
retaining information of the password used
11.10 CHECK YOUR PROCESS
A. Mention the name of the three security mode
B. Write one feature of Voucher audit list
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1. Explain the meaning of Tally audit.
2. What are the advantages of voucher audit list.
3. Explain the voucher audit button functions.
4. What is meant by display ledger audit list?
5. Explain the features of Tally audit.

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