Tally is not the problem. For pure accounting, it may still be the best money you ever spent. The problem is the factory around it — and the questions it starts asking that vouchers cannot answer.

1. Production entries are made at month end

The floor makes things all day. Tally hears about it on the 30th, from a notebook. In between, your stock figure is a guess and your costing is a memory. The sign: somebody says “the register and Tally never match.”

2. There is a parallel Excel

The stock Excel, the production Excel, the wages Excel. Each one exists because Tally has no shape for that work. Every one is edited by two people and true in neither copy.

3. “Tally needs an operator”

The owner does not touch it. The truth of the business arrives as Friday printouts, filtered through one person’s typing speed and one person’s leave schedule.

4. Job work lives on trust

Material at the plater is on no screen anywhere. The one-year ITC-04 clock is in nobody’s diary. The chit is in the lorry driver’s pocket.

5. Nothing ever refuses

A voucher can be backdated, edited, deleted. The double payment and the over-issued stock are always possible — and a tax officer reads that flexibility very differently than your operator meant it.

What moving actually looks like

You do not abandon Tally on day one. Bring balances and masters over an afternoon — items, parties, opening stock, owed and owing, bill by bill. Your CA keeps filing from Tally as long as they like. The factory starts living on one thread; the accountant follows when they are ready.