Load a Company

When the company is created it gets loaded automatically the first time. However, you must Select the company to load it. (Select and load are synonymous)

Start Tally by double clicking the Tally icon.

Tally can be configured to automatically load companies by appropriately setting the TALLY.INI file. The relevant portion of the TALLY.INI file is reproduced below:

The above setting (Default Companies being set to Yes) loads company 0001. When creating a company, Tally creates a sub-directory under its \DATA directory for the company. The directory is allotted a number in serial order starting with 0001. You may load more than one company at a time. (The semi-colon precedes a comment, which means that the words following it in that line would not be executed. Each line is a separate command). To load company 0002 also, simply remove the semi-colon before the command Load-0002. Likewise, give Load=0003, if you wish.

Example of sub-directories created by Tally for different companies:

On the other hand, if you do not want to load any company by default set, Default Companies=No. Then on clicking the Tally icon, Select a company you want to load:

Bring arrow to Select Company and press <ENTER> or double-click the option.

Select the company to bring you to the Gateway of Tally of that company

The left side of the screen gives details of the loaded companies. In the example below, two companies (out of the 11 created - refer the data directory listing above) are currently loaded:

Redox inernational is the active company. However, the current period and the current date at the top of the screen are of the company that was first loaded, i.e., of Saipal internatioanl. You may need to be careful when selecting to load companies having different accounting periods. When you do so and switch between the companies, keep in mind that the current period may not be the accounting period of the new company.

The advantage of loading other companies in addition to the current company is that these companies become available for the purpose of comparison and analysis . You may often need to bring up data from other companies while working with the current company.