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TALLY - TUTORIAL

TALLY - TUTORIAL

 
A tally is a complete business accounting software developed by Tally Solutions Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore , India.
Now we are going to learn tally here.
First you need to know, some accounting basics
 
ACCOUNTING BASICS
 
Every Transaction in any business, there must be ledger accounts for record transaction details. 
For Every Transaction, there are minimum 2 entries for ledger accounts, one for Debit(Dr) and another for Credit(Cr).
Debit(Dr) means what comes-in (For Particular Ledger A/C).
Credit(Cr) means what goes-out.
All expenses are comes under Debit(Dr).
All Incomes are comes under Credit(Cr).
All purchases are comes into the purchase Ledger a/c.
All sales are out from the sales Ledger A/c.
 
HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF TRANSACTION.
 
Tally-Lesson-4-create company
 TALLY TUTORIAL
STARTING A TALLY
Before you going to create a company, we need to know , how to start a tally
 
Tally can be opened as following ways
–From Desktop Shortcut of Tally–From Start Menu, Programs, and select  tally7.2 
 
Gateway of Tally
Tally shows the first screen as Gateway of Tally
 
The Gateway of Tally Screen contains 5 major areas (parts).
–Production Info
–Current Status
–Tally Main Menu
–Button Bar
–Tally Calculator/Command line 
 
Product Info
 At the top part of Gateway of Tally Screen, the Product Info as following information
–Version & Release–System Date–User Version
–System Time
–Copyright Notice
–User Serial Number
 
 
Current Status
At left part of Gateway, you get the following information about current working status.
–Current Period:
–Current Tally Voucher Date
–Active Company ( Current Working Company)
–List of Selected Companies (Current Open Companies list)
 
Tally Main Menu
 
At right part of the Gateway of Tally Menu appears  showing the list of Menu Option or Menu Items
Select a Menu item to invoke a particular task.  
You can select Menu Options by using mouse click or by using keyboard control keys with Enter key and by keyboard shortcut keys.
Keyboard Short cut keys are shown in bold red color letters. You may have to drill down several levels of Menu (sub Menu).
 
Button Bar
 
At rightmost part of the Gateway, the Button bar shows several buttons vary according to screen in work area.
These Buttons provide quick and direct access to various options & tasks.
You may Invoking a Buttons in 3 ways
 
–By Mouse: Click the button at the button bar.
–By Function Key:  Some buttons are named by Function  Keys ( F1 to F12)
 
Calculator
• Used to Calculate a expression and can be pasted in to any Numeric Field.
• To Activate Tally Calculator Press Ctrl+N.
• To copy to the Numeric Field, Press Alt+C From the Numeric Field.
 
ShortCut Keys in Tally
 
Red Color Letter - For Red Color Menu or Button Bar Item (example: Account Info-> A)
 
Alt+underline Letter: For single underline letter (example: F3 Comp Info -> Alt+F3)
 
Ctrl+Double Under Line Letter: For Double Under Letter(example: As Voucher: Ctrl+V)