Tally Prime Accounting Services

Eight financial years of books must be preserved under the Companies Act, so the file is closed properly, not merely updated. You send it, or give access, with bank statements and the month's purchase and sales documents. Back comes a closed period: vouchers entered and verified, ledgers regrouped so the balance sheet reports correctly, GST and TDS workings drawn from the same file, and a reconciliation against every bank statement. Traders who value order in a busy company file recognise the routine.

Inside Tally accounting services sits the recurring cycle: entry, reconciliation, statutory workings, then the locked close. How heavy a month gets turns on voucher volume, the companies held in the same file and whether inventory is maintained alongside. Cleaning up several prior years, migrating data off another system, or wiring the file to the government e-invoicing portal are each scoped as separate pieces of work.

A Tally accountant is for businesses that have chosen to stay on TallyPrime and want the file run properly month after month. The software sits on a desktop in the office, and the books only stay clean when someone owns entry, reconciliation and the close.

• Traders and SMEs running daily books in TallyPrime, needing the month closed on time.
• Owners entering purchase bills themselves after the data-entry assistant left, with nobody reviewing.
• Businesses holding several companies in one Tally file, each needing its own clean close.
• Firms preparing GST and TDS returns straight from the same company file.
• Businesses raising e-invoices and e-way bills from Tally, needing masters set for it.
• Manufacturers maintaining stock inside Tally, where item masters must group and report right.
• Companies that must produce Edit Log evidence, needing the audit trail left switched on.
• Users on an old release or lapsed TSS, needing Tally support to bring the file current.

Keeping one Tally company with a steady flow of vouchers sits at the entry price. As voucher volume rises or you run several companies in Tally, a dedicated tally accountant handles more, so the fee moves up. Book a scope call on +91 94594 56700.

Fees exclude GST and government charges. Final quote confirmed after a scoping review.

All fees and charges listed are indicative only and do not constitute a binding offer. Final amounts may vary depending on the volume of work and the complexity involved.

Professional accounting and compliance charges are scoped to your number of entities, funding stage and monthly transaction volume, and are separate from statutory and government charges. Contact us for a detailed, fixed quote.

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Tally books are kept to the same accounting standards as any other, but the provision that makes the software itself a compliance matter is Rule 3(1) of the Companies (Accounts) Rules: since April 2023 the tool has to keep an unbroken edit log, and Section 128 requires the file it lives in to survive eight years. That is what turns a data-entry package into statutory infrastructure.

So maintaining a Tally company file is governed work. The records must stay retrievable and legible, the invoices must meet the tax-invoice rules, and the archive cannot be pruned to save space. That is why controls like Tally Vault over access and a disciplined Tally XML Export for backups matter to the auditor, not just the operator. A Tally accountant keeps the file against the provisions below.

• Rule 3(1), Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014The software keeps an audit trail of every change with its date, switched on all year and never disabled - the single hard test the tool must pass.
• Rule 3, Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014 with Section 128(1)Books held electronically remain accessible in India, legible and backed up, and retrievable for the eight-year retention period - supported by Remote Tally Access.
• Section 31 with Rule 48, CGST Act 2017Invoices carry the prescribed tax-invoice fields, and above Rs 5 crore turnover an IRN is generated through the e-invoice portal.
• Section 128(5), Companies Act 2013The ledger and its vouchers are preserved for eight years, so a version upgrade or a data repair cannot break the historical trail.
• Section 44AA, Income-tax Act 1961The obligation to keep complete books applies to whichever entity runs the file, company or non-corporate alike. Cloud alternatives are covered on the Zoho Books page.

Official sources: Ministry of Corporate Affairs · Income Tax Department · GST Portal · Startup India (DPIIT)

Patron tracks each against your books so nothing is reconstructed after the fact. Call +91 94594 56700 to set up a filing-reminder schedule.

The proprietor ends up inside the company file late at night, entering the month's purchase bills personally, because the data entry assistant left and nobody was replaced. Work done that way is entered, never reviewed, and the errors survive into the balance sheet. A Tally accountant takes the file off the owner's evenings and closes it properly.

Credit decisions follow from that directly. Once outstanding bills are matched against the receipts that actually settled them, Tally accounting services expose a party who has quietly stretched well beyond agreed terms. The credit limit can then be tightened before the next order is accepted rather than after it.

Where the company file physically lives has to be established at the outset, since TallyPrime runs on a desktop in your office. How we reach it, and how many companies sit inside it, follows, as does any case for keeping the ledger in a browser.