COURSE DETAILS 

Ask any businessman what he looks for when hiring an accountant, and the answer is rarely about qualifications. It is about whether the person can handle the work without supervision - enter the day's bills correctly, tell him who owes money and since when, keep the stock figures matching the godown, and file the GST return on time without a last minute panic. CIA is built backwards from that expectation.

The curriculum and study material are revised every six months, because this subject changes constantly - GST rules are amended, Tally releases new versions, e-invoicing thresholds shift, return formats get updated. Guidance is taken on a continuing basis from practising accountants and CA offices, so that classroom work stays aligned with what a real accounts desk is doing this month.

What "Industrial" means here

A great many accounting courses teach the subject as if every business were a small shop with twenty entries a day. Real industry is not like that. A distributor may receive two hundred purchase bills in a week. A factory has to track raw material going in and finished goods coming out, with wastage in between. A trader deals with dozens of parties on credit, each with a different payment period. A manufacturer needs to know the cost of each product line separately.

CIA is built on these situations. Cost centres are taught because a business wants department wise profit, not one total. Godowns and batches are taught because stock sits in more than one place and medicines and food items carry expiry dates. Bill wise details are taught because "Ramesh owes two lakh" is useless information - the owner needs to know which bill, from which date, and how overdue it is. Manufacturing entries and bill of material are taught because a production unit cannot run on simple sales and purchase vouchers.

The order of teaching, and why it is not reversed

The student does not touch Tally in the first week. Accounting comes first - concepts, terminology, types of accounts, the golden rules, journal, ledger, trial balance and final accounts, all done by hand on paper.

This is a deliberate decision, and it is the reason a CIA student behaves differently in a real office. Someone trained only on software can enter a voucher, but the moment a trial balance does not tally, or an auditor questions a treatment, or a figure appears in the wrong head, he has nowhere to go. He never learned what the entry means. A student who has written journals by hand knows what went wrong and where to look, because to him Tally is only a faster way of doing something he already understands.

Tally Prime, taught to the depth an employer expects

Once the foundation is in place, Tally Prime is covered completely. Company creation and configuration, chart of accounts, all voucher types including debit note, credit note and memo, inventory with stock groups, categories, godowns and batches, cost centres and cost categories, bill wise outstanding with credit period tracking, interest calculation, budgets and scenarios, price lists and discount handling, manufacturing and bill of material, bank reconciliation, multi currency, security control and Tally Vault, backup, restore, split and data migration from ERP 9 to Prime, invoice customisation, printing and report export.

Special attention goes to the reports, because that is where an accountant proves his worth. Anyone can make entries. The accountant who can pull an ageing analysis of outstanding, a godown wise stock summary, a cost centre profitability report or a party ledger with pending bills - in front of the owner, in one minute - is the one who becomes indispensable.

Taxation, the part that decides everything

GST is where accounting jobs are won and lost, so it is taught thoroughly: tax structure and rate classification, HSN and SAC, computation of CGST, SGST and IGST, place and time of supply, input tax credit and its utilisation, blocked credit, reverse charge, tax invoice versus bill of supply, e-way bill generation and rules, e-invoicing, payment and challan, GSTR-1, GSTR-3B and annual return, GSTR-2A and 2B reconciliation, and the late fee, interest and notices that follow a mistake.

TDS follows with rates, deduction, deposit and returns and its complete setup in Tally. TCS, income tax basics, professional tax and payroll with salary structure, attendance, PF, ESI, gratuity and pay slip generation complete the statutory side.

Where NIMACT's model fits in

The institute runs on AI > Programming Language (Coding) > Apps, and an accounts desk gains from all three.

AI works as a study and verification partner. ChatGPT, Claude AI, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity are used to explain a complicated entry in plain language, to understand what a tax rule or a department notice actually says, to check whether a treatment is right, and to practise questions before an interview. The limits are taught with equal weight, because in accounting a confident wrong answer becomes a wrong return, and a wrong return becomes a penalty with the client's name on it.

Coding arrives through Excel. Every accounts desk is surrounded by spreadsheet work - reformatting bill data, preparing GST summaries, building salary sheets, matching party statements. The student learns formula driven templates and basic VBA macros so this monthly repetition is set up once and then runs on its own.

Apps is the closing stage. The student builds a GST billing file that prints a proper invoice, an outstanding and payment follow up system, a stock register with reorder alerts, a salary system with PF and ESI calculation, and a dashboard showing sales, purchases, outstanding and profit on a single screen. These are handed over as working files, not classroom exercises.

Where this course takes a student

Distributors, wholesalers, factories, showrooms, hospitals, schools, transport companies, petrol pumps, CA offices and corporate branches all need accounts staff, and the roles include Industrial Accountant, Accounts Executive, Tally Operator, GST Executive, Billing Executive, Store and Inventory Executive, Audit Assistant and Accounts Head in a smaller firm.

The independent route deserves a separate mention, because in a town it is often the better one. A capable person can keep the books of six or eight small businesses at the same time, file their monthly GST returns, and collect a fixed amount from each - with no employer, no fixed timing, and no ceiling on how many clients he adds. Very few four month courses put a student in a position to do that.

Who Should Attend: Students of 10th, 12th, BA, BSc., B.Com, M.Com, BBA and MBA who need the practical side their degree does not cover. People already working in billing, store or accounts who were never formally trained in GST and Tally. Beginners from any stream who want a direct route into the accounting field. Shop owners, traders and small manufacturers who want to maintain and understand their own books. Anyone planning independent practice in book keeping and GST return filing.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

Students who have passed 10th standard are eligible to pursue this course.

SYLLABUS

To get a better idea about the course structure, let us go through a list of important subjects present in this program. Note: Only the important subjects have been mentioned.

• Introduction
• Basic of Accounting, Accounting Concept
• Tally Features
• User Interface and Company Management
• Masters – Accounts : Ledgers, Groups, Voucher Types
• Masters – Inventory : Stock Group, Stock Item, Stock Category, Godown, Unit of Measure, Price List
• Vouchers - Accounting, Inventory, Payroll & Attendance Vouchers
• Receipt, Payment, Contra, Purchase, Sales, Journal, Debit Note & Credit Note Voucher
• Sales Order, Purchase Order, Point of Sales, Receipt Note, Delivery Note, Rejection In & Rejection Out Voucher
• Reverse Journal, Optional, Post Dated, Memo, Manufacturing Journal Voucher
• Day Book in Tally
• Pre-Allocation of Bills
• Cheque Printing in Tally Prime
• Taxation (GST, TDS, TCS, Excise Duty, Income Tax, Custom Duty)
• GST Reports 
• Billing Features in Tally
• Purchase Order Processing & Sales Order Processing
• Bank Reconciliation in Tally
• Price List in Tally
• Credit Limit
• Stock Transfers
• Manufacturing Vouchers
• Batch Wise Details, Manufacturing Date & Expiry Date
• Re-Order Level in Tally
• Interest Calculations (Auto Mode)
• Voucher Types and Class
• Point of Sales (POS)
• Scenarios and Optional Vouchers
• Budgets and Controls (Credit Limit) in Tally
• Cost Centres and Cost Categories
• Party Ledger Analysis
• Purchase and Sales Reporting
• Stock Analysis and Reports
• Cash and Bank Reports
• Search, Filter and Sorting
• Financial Reports
• Multi Language
• Export, Import, Backup and Restore
• Payroll Accounting including Provident Fund (PF), Bonus, Overtime, ESI etc
• Finalisation Entries
• Data Security
• Tally Audit
• Data Synchronisation
• Multi-Currency
• Analyze Financial Statements 
• Use Ratio Analysis
• Digital Transactions 
• Banking / Insurance / Mutual Fund / Share / Bond 
• Data Migration
• Technical Analysis 
• TDL (Tally Coding)
• Bank Reconciliation Statement (BRS)
• MIS
• AI Integrated Tally
• Printing Reports
• Miscellaneous
• Shortcut Keys
• Project Work / Internship
• GST in Tally Prime :- Government of India is working on GST and still the entire picture will get clear when it’s officially placed into force. However, Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd is actively working on GST Features and Few preparations with respect to Registration of GST, Tax Structure and GST Entries in Tally are the things we need to learn right now. We will update GST module soon in our course.
• Project Works

Most of the subjects mentioned above have both Theoretical Studies and Practical Sessions associated with them. Project work is present. Students will have to undertake and complete a project work related to the field of IT, under the guidance of faculty members.