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Learn Tally in 30 days: a daily plan

An hour a day for a month, with your hands on the keyboard for most of it, is enough to do day to day accounting entries with confidence.

Before you begin

You need a computer with TallyPrime installed from the official site, and a notebook.
You need the basics of accounting: debit and credit, journal entries, what a ledger and a trial balance are. If these are new, spend a week first on learn.shareyourgroup.com/accountancy.
Create a practice company (Shanti Traders) and never practise in a real company's data.
Each day: read the lesson (15 minutes), do it in Tally (35 minutes), write three lines in your notebook on what you learned (10 minutes).

Week 1: the ground

Day	Study	Practise
1	What TallyPrime is	Open Tally. Move around with Enter, Esc and Alt+G. Find five reports.
2	Create a company	Create Shanti Traders. Open F11. Shut and reopen the company.
3	Groups and ledgers	Write the 28 groups from memory. Do the group quiz twice.
4	Create ledgers	Create the practice ledgers. Alter one. View Chart of Accounts.
5	Voucher types	Open each voucher with its key. For twenty transactions on paper, write which voucher you would use.
6	Shortcuts	Learn the keys marked essential. Work for half an hour without the mouse.
7	Review	Create a second practice company from memory, with ledgers. Group quiz: aim for 18 of 20.

Week 2: accounting vouchers

Day	Study	Practise
8	Receipt and Contra	Enter capital, a bank deposit, a withdrawal and a bank transfer.
9	Payment	Enter ten payments: rent, salary, electricity, a supplier, drawings.
10	Journal	Enter the eight examples in the lesson.
11	Reports: Day Book and ledger	Check everything entered so far in the Day Book. Alter two vouchers. Delete one.
12	Reports: Trial Balance, P&L, Balance Sheet	Drill down from Balance Sheet to a voucher and back. Add a comparison column.
13	Common errors	Make three deliberate mistakes, find them from the reports, and fix them.
14	Review	Enter thirty mixed vouchers from a list you write yourself. Check the Trial Balance by hand.

Week 3: stock and GST

Day	Study	Practise
15	Stock items and units	Create units, groups and the three practice items.
16	GST set-up	Enable GST. Create tax ledgers. Add state and GSTIN to parties, and rates to items.
17	Purchase	Enter a local and an interstate purchase. Check Stock Summary.
18	Sales	Enter a credit sale, a cash sale and an interstate sale. Print one invoice to PDF.
19	Debit and credit notes	Enter one sales return and one purchase return against the earlier bills.
20	GST entries	Work out the month's tax on paper, pass the set-off journal, and compare with the GSTR-3B report.
21	Review	Outstandings reports: tag every receipt and payment against its bill.

Week 4: putting it together

Day	Study	Practise
22	Bank reconciliation	Write a made-up bank statement for your entries and reconcile against it.
23	Backup and restore	Back up to a pen drive. Restore into a new folder and open it.
24 to 27	Practice exercise	In a fresh company, enter the whole month of transactions. Compare your Trial Balance with ours.
28	Reports again	For the exercise company: P&L, Balance Sheet, Stock Summary, Outstandings. Explain each figure aloud.
29	Glossary	Speed: enter twenty vouchers against the clock using keys only.
30	Review	Do the month-end routine from the reports lesson. List what you still find hard.

How to know you are ready for work

You can create a company, ledgers and items without looking anything up.
Given a bill or a slip, you know at once which voucher it is.
You can enter a GST sales invoice and a purchase correctly and explain every line.
You can find and correct your own mistakes from the reports.
You can reconcile a bank account.
You take a backup without being reminded.

After the thirty days

Real skill comes from real documents. If you can, work alongside an accountant for a few weeks, even unpaid, entering actual bills under supervision. Learn how that office names ledgers and treats tax, and ask why. Further features (payroll, cost centres, orders, batches, multiple godowns, TDS) are best learned when a job calls for them, from Tally's own help. And keep your accounting theory moving: software changes with every release, while debit and credit do not.

For job seekers

On a resume, say what you can do, not only "Tally": for example "TallyPrime: ledgers, GST sales and purchase invoices, bank reconciliation, Day Book and Trial Balance". Our neighbours career.shareyourgroup.com/resume and career.shareyourgroup.com/interview have a sample resume and interview questions for accounts jobs.

Questions learners ask

How long does it take to learn Tally?

For day to day entries (ledgers, vouchers, GST invoices, basic reports), about a month of an hour's practice a day, if you already know basic accounting.

Can I learn Tally without knowing accounting?

You can learn the screens, but not to use them correctly. Learn debit and credit and journal entries first.

Do I need a paid course to learn Tally?

Not necessarily. With the software, a practice company and regular practice you can learn the basics yourself. A course or working with an accountant helps with real documents and office practice.

All lessons

What TallyPrime is Create a company Groups and ledgers Create ledgers Voucher types Contra voucher Payment voucher Receipt voucher Journal voucher Purchase voucher Sales voucher Debit and credit notes Stock items and units GST set-up GST entries Bank reconciliation Reports Backup and restore Common errors

Shortcut keys Group quiz Practice exercise Glossary

An independent learning site. Tally and TallyPrime are trademarks of Tally Solutions Private Limited. This site is not connected with, approved by or paid by Tally Solutions, and uses none of its logos, screens or course material. Keys and menu paths were checked against Tally's own help site on 12 November 2026; the software changes with each release, so if your screen differs, follow Tally's help (press Ctrl+F1). Tax treatment in the examples is for learning only: ask your accountant.