tally_check_tie_out

Check that the books tie: every voucher balances, every ledger closing balance equals its opening balance plus the movements in the period, and the stock figure in the accounts agrees with the stock records.

WHEN TO USE: before relying on ANY figure from these books for a report, a workpaper or a client deliverable. Run it first and quote the result. If it fails, the numbers from every other tool are suspect and should not be presented until the exceptions are explained.

RETURNS: a pass/fail verdict, then counts of what was checked, then the exceptions themselves — unbalanced vouchers with the amount they are out by, ledgers whose computed closing balance disagrees with the one TallyPrime reports, and any date at which stock per the general ledger disagrees with stock per the stock records, each showing both figures and the difference.

THE STOCK TIE-OUT IS CHECKED AT BOTH ENDS of the period, and the two mean different things. A difference at OPENING was already wrong before the period began — an opening-balance or conversion error. A difference at CLOSING only means stock moved in the stock records without a matching entry reaching the general ledger, which makes cost of sales wrong by that amount. Reporting only the closing gap would merge the two into one figure and hide both causes. Where nothing could be tied, checks.stockTieOut.applicable is false and notApplicableReason says WHICH of three states it is — the company keeps no inventory, or it holds stock records but no stock ledger to tie them against, or a stock ledger with no stock records behind it. Only the first is benign: the second means inventory is unconstrained by double entry and an error in it would reach the accounts unchallenged. Report which one rather than calling any of them a pass.

HOW THE COMPARISON WORKS, and its one real limitation: the closing balance TallyPrime reports for a ledger is as at TALLY OWN CURRENT PERIOD END, not the end of the range asked for here. So the roll-forward check is only meaningful when the range covers the company whole period. Given no dates, this tool defaults to the financial year the company books begin in — NOT the financial year containing today, which is what the other tools default to — because that is the range most likely to line up. Given explicit dates, it checks them and warns that a partial range will disagree for reasons that are not errors.

NOT CHECKABLE is reported separately from FAILED, and the distinction matters: a ledger with no opening balance, or a voucher carrying an unreadable amount, cannot be verified either way. Counting those as passes would overstate the assurance this gives.

SEVERAL COMPANIES AT ONCE: pass companies: ["A", "B"] instead of company to check each in one call. Every company is checked against its OWN books and its own book year; nothing is totalled across them. The overall passed is true only if all of them pass.

FINDINGS: alongside the prose warnings, every result carries findings — typed objects with a severity ("exception" for books that are out, "not_checkable" for what could not be verified, "info"), a stable code, the subject, and the figures behind it. Triage on those rather than by reading the warning text. findingCounts and highestSeverity summarise them.

VERBOSITY: pass verbosity "summary" to drop the standing explanatory notes and return only the findings, with a count of what was omitted. Exceptions are never suppressed.

PERIOD: omit both dates for the Indian financial year containing today (1 Apr-31 Mar). Supply both or neither. The period used is echoed back.

PAGINATION: not applicable — exceptions are returned in full, because a truncated exception register is not a control.

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