Tally Accounting Software – How India’s National Rural Health Ministry Found Success

Tally Accounting Software, used almost solely by companies in India, has Tally.ERP 9 as its signature product. As ERP accounting software, there are more parts than merely the accounting software, but the primary benefit comes from its accounting segments. Many companies and institutions from India use Tally, with the National Rural Health Mission (NHRM) numbering among them. The NRHM describes itself as an institution whose main purpose is to help increase public spending on health. In order to address some of their accounting issues, they chose Tally Accounting Software to do the job.

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Tally Accounting Software Called Upon to Fix the NHRM’s Problem

There are several different levels of spending releases run by the NHRM. Unfortunately, they weren’t able to successfully track those disbursements. Without the ability to track disbursements, tracking the effectiveness of the money spent was also extremely difficult. Not only that, but each site needed to report the spending to the NRHM Headquarters. Statements were done infrequently, and those that were finishing weren’t standardized effectively. Add all of that to that the fact that most of the sites are located in remote locations, making Internet connections sporadic; so a great deal was expected out of Tally Accounting Software.

Tally Accounting Software Provides a Solution to the NHRM

Tally.Erp 9 was deployed across all the NRHM offices to handle these issues. The first major implementation was changes to the data entry system. Instead of requiring trained accountants or experienced people to get started, Tally Accounting Software allowed NRHM to drastically decrease the learning curve on their accounting inputs. The menus were customizable, allowing NRHM to simplify the process even more for their people. All accounts were also given the same title across every site, eliminating confusion when the information was combined on at the headquarters level. That also brings up the connectivity issue, which was handled by deploying the software locally at each site. Finally, the data was synced and exported to an Excel file as needed. The Tally Accounting Software also allowed NRHM to place controls and budgets that were easy to follow, ensuring that spending did not exceed available resources.

Benefits of the Tally Accounting Software Solution

At the end of the day, NRHM reaped many benefits from switching to Tally Accounting Software. First and most important, the reports were accurate and consistent, allowing them to significantly improve their analysis, monitoring, and visibility. Along with that, information was easily available for all levels of the process, not just the top level. Also, the remote access enabled users to login into any site across the organization from the headquarters. Finally, something that was not a big concern at the outset but was a nice extra benefit, was the multilingual capability of the Tally Accounting Software. This helped ensure that no matter what dialect of the Indian language was spoken, the Tally Accounting Software would be ready.