Rony wrote:
Saswata Banerjee & Associates wrote:
But the problems with Tally are must more deep rooted. (I suspect you have not bother to read the prev posts on the matter). It allows the user to delete and insert data into any book at any time for any date. It automatically renumbers the vouchers and leaves no audit trail. As a result, if an user changes data, the business owners will never find out. This complete lack of data integrity is a very worrying matter for any business owner who is not sitting and doing all his accounts on his own.
I am no fan of Tally. Based on the previous thread on Tally, I spoke to a person who is Tally user and he mentioned that Tally has 2 modes of data update. One is the main admin type mode which can be password locked and other user type mode which is used to make entries. Only admin mode can do the above mentioned manipulation of data.
This is going OT, as someone will come and say...... One of my clients, a large shipping line tried that. Using things like admin mode did not work with them as the restrictions on the usage was so much that people had to come to the admin guy even to take prints of vouchers. This is a company with lots of resources and adequate budget to pay Tally Support Vendors to get things done right, but in the end the abandoned the efforts.
But the problem is not resolved even if Admin works. Is the business owner actually going to sit down and do all such changes, deletions, etc. Will he be in office every time someone makes a typing mistake and make the correction for that person in the voucher ? Or will he just have to give the control to the sr. accountant who can do what he feels like and there is again no trail to go back and verify who made changes and what changes he made.
Regards Saswata