introduction of tally

Introduction to the Tally 9.0

Tally is financial accounting software. This program is developed by Peutronics Pvt. Ltd. It allows the user to create a company, create accounts, make voucher entries and print reports. This Financial accounting software is used to store and maintain daily business transactions like purchases, sales, receipts, payments, purchase returns, sales returns, deposit and withdrawals. But it auto creates Stock Ledger, Trial Balance, Trading A/c, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet, Cash/Fund Flow, Ratio Analysis and other many  financial reports.

 There are some special features of Tally Program:-

1.     Tally is a worldwide used multinational and multi language program.

2.  It has high level of data security and more facilities to store and keep the financial records.

3.     It has colorful screen and easy entry formats.

4.  It has well designed reporting facilities and many more short keys facilities are available for the users.

5. It is based on double entry system which facilitates the modernized accounting transaction entries as per the requirement of the user.

Tally program auto creates a data directory named ‘Data’ inside the program where it stores the company’s data.

  Tally opening screen description

The Tally program has following six screen parts they are as:

Title bar: - Tally’s title bar is displayed at the top of the screen.

Horizontal bar: - It is the second screen after the title bar where we can get the information about the tally program detail.

Gateway of Tally: - The Gateway of Tally area has two major parts

Left hand side: - Where company’s current date, current period, name of company and the date of last entry are displayed.

Right hand side: - Through which Tally program is operated and every user of Tally starts their works using these command options.

Button bar: - It is displayed on right hand side of the Tally’s screen where many short key buttons are displayed which is very helpful for the better operation of the Tally program.

Calculator Area: - It is displayed above the bottom side of the Tally’s screen. It is used for the mathematical calculation.

Bottom bar: - It is displayed at the down side after the calculator area of the Tally’s screen. 

           

Gateway of Tally screen before company creation & after company creation

Special note:-The screen of the Gateway of Tally is normally displayed while we open the tally program at first time but actually that screen is not sufficient for user. But   after the company creation in tally program when we open the company then it is found having quite different screen of the gateway of tally. Now its look is likely more changed than before. It is sure user will feel it himself.

COMPANY INFORMATION

How to open tally 9 program

1. Click on the start menu.

2.  Click on the run.

3. Type -   C:\Tally9\Tally9.exe

4. Now press enter key to open the tally program.

Note: - The directory of tally program can be modified by the user as per the requirement so; it is not fixing that the command typed above to open the tally program should be exactly same for every user.  It may be changed for per user as per their uses.

How to close the tally program

1. Click on Quit option or press Q key at gateway of Tally program.

2. Click on Yes or Press Y key.

Or

1. Press ESC key at gateway of Tally.

2. Press Enter key to Quit from Tally program.