Practical compliance guides

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 8 min read

MIS Reports for Small Businesses: What Your CA Should Deliver Every Month

Your CA files your GST returns on time. Your TDS is deposited. Your ITR gets filed every year. You are compliant. But do you actually know h...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 8 min read

Accounting for Startups in India: From Day One to First Statutory Audit

You have incorporated your Pvt Ltd company, received the Certificate of Incorporation, and you are ready to build. But here is what most fou...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 8 min read

Accounting for E-Commerce Sellers in India: Amazon, Flipkart and Meesho Setup

Selling on Amazon, Flipkart, or Meesho is the easy part. Accounting for it is where Indian e-commerce sellers struggle. Unlike traditional r...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 8 min read

Restaurant and Food Business Accounting India: GST, Inventory and Cost Control

Restaurants fail at twice the rate of other small businesses - and in almost every case, the cause is financial, not culinary. The food is g...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 9 min read

Accounting for Freelancers and Consultants in India: GST, ITR and Books Combined

You are a software developer, content writer, digital marketer, management consultant, CA, lawyer, architect, or design freelancer. You have...

CACA Poonam Kadge · Apr 7

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 14 min read

Quarterly Inventory Statement for Banks: How MSME Borrowers Should Prepare It

An MSME manufacturer in Nagpur with a Rs 1.5 crore CC limit from SBI had been submitting stock statements showing inventory valued at Rs 2.2...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 14 min read

Slow-Moving, Dead and Obsolete Stock: Accounting Treatment and Write-Off Rules in India

A pharma company in MIDC Bhosari, Pune discovered 42 batches of raw material past their expiry date during a stock audit - still carried on...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 15 min read

Ind AS 2 vs ICDS-II: How Inventory Must Be Valued for Financial Reporting and Tax

A manufacturing company in Pune reported closing stock of Rs 4.2 crore in its audited financial statements (valued under Ind AS 2). When the...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 7

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 11 min read

Complete Zoho Books Guide for Indian Businesses 2026

If you are running a business in India in 2026, your accounting software needs to handle GST invoicing, GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B filing, e-invoici...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 6

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 10 min read

Migrating from Tally to Zoho Books: Complete Checklist and Step-by-Step Process

You have decided to move from Tally to Zoho Books. The question is not whether to migrate - it is how to migrate without losing data, breaki...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 6

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 11 min read

Zoho Books Bank Reconciliation: Step-by-Step Guide to Matching Transactions

Your Zoho Books balance says Rs 4,32,000. Your bank statement says Rs 4,18,500. The difference is Rs 13,500 - but you have no idea where it...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 6

Accounting & Bookkeeping · 7 min read

Zoho Books Pricing India 2026: All Plans Compared - Free to Ultimate

Zoho Books is one of the most competitively priced cloud accounting solutions in India - offering a genuine free plan and five paid tiers th...

CACA Sundaram Gupta · Apr 6