Gurugram brings the highest proportion of companies with a foreign parent, and that changes what a migration has to deliver. The chart of accounts is not only feeding your own statutory financials, it is feeding a group consolidation on a different reporting calendar and often a different framework. Designing the mapping for one and reconciling to the other through a spreadsheet each quarter is the outcome to avoid, and it is decided before the first record is imported.
Service and D2C files with heavy marketing spend, foreign currency transactions, intercompany balances, and expense classification that has to satisfy both Indian statutory presentation and a group chart of accounts.
Predominantly private limited companies, including a large number of wholly owned subsidiaries of overseas parents. Audit trail compliance and Rule 11(g) reporting apply in full, and for subsidiaries the group auditor may take an interest as well.
The specific point for a Gurugram subsidiary is intercompany and transfer pricing data. Balances with the parent, cost recharges and management fees need to be identifiable in the migrated file rather than buried in general ledgers, because they are the entries that get examined. If the Tally file recorded them without that visibility, the migration is the cheapest opportunity you will get to fix it. Retrofitting the classification later means re-tagging every historical transaction.
Haryana does not levy professional tax, so Gurugram employers have no PTEC, no PTRC and no deduction on that account.
One point decides more about cost than anything else on this page, and it is a compliance argument rather than a convenience one. Migrate on 1 April and the whole financial year sits in one system, so your auditor reaches a single Rule 11(g) conclusion. Cut over in December and the year is split across two systems, and the auditor has to form and report a conclusion on both, including the one you have stopped using. Assessment and clean-up typically take two to three weeks before anything can move, so a 1 April cutover is a January or February decision rather than a March one. None of this binds a proprietorship, a partnership firm or an LLP, which sit outside the audit trail regime entirely.
| Item | Position as at August 2026 |
|---|---|
| Audit trail requirement | Rule 3(1) proviso, Companies (Accounts) Rules 2014. Software must record an edit log that cannot be disabled |
| In force from | Financial years commencing on or after 1 April 2023 |
| Who it binds | Every company, including small, OPC and Section 8. Not proprietorships, partnership firms or LLPs |
| Auditor reporting | Rule 11(g). Used, operated throughout the year, not tampered with, and preserved |
| Retention | Eight financial years under section 128(5), so the Tally data cannot simply be disposed of |
| Daily backup | Rule 3(5). Servers physically located in India |
| Registrar intimation | Rule 3(6). Service provider name, IP address and location, annually with the financials |
| Zoho plan driver | GSTIN count, not turnover. Standard one, Professional two, Premium three |
| Zoho free plan | Turnover under Rs 25 lakh, one user plus an accountant, 1,000 invoices a year |
| Best cutover date | 1 April, so the financial year sits in one system |
| Package | Fee | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Balance | Rs 24,999 | Balances only, tied back to your last audited figures |
| Full Year | Rs 49,999 | One financial year of transactions, multi-GSTIN |
| Historical | Rs 99,999 | Up to three years, multi-GSTIN, inventory and parallel run |
| Additional GSTIN | Rs 2,999 each | Beyond those included in your scope |
| Additional financial year | Rs 7,999 each | Where comparative reporting needs more history |
Project fees rather than retainers, because this is a one-time engagement. For company clients the Rule 11(g) audit trail documentation, the retention position and the Rule 3(6) Registrar particulars are prepared as part of the engagement rather than charged separately. Your Zoho Books subscription is paid by you directly to Zoho.
Every price above is a professional fee, excluding GST and government charges. 50% on delivery.
All fees and charges listed are indicative only and do not constitute a binding offer. Final amounts may vary depending on the volume of work and the complexity involved.
To serve both, from the outset. The mapping should line up with the group reporting structure so consolidation does not require a monthly reconciliation spreadsheet, while still preserving the Schedule III groupings your Indian statutory financials have to be presented in. Both are achievable in one chart if it is designed deliberately. Neither is achievable if the chart is inherited from how Tally happened to group things.
Yes. Intercompany balances, recharges and management fees should be separately identifiable in the migrated file rather than absorbed into general ledgers, because they are exactly what gets examined in a transfer pricing review. Migration is the cheapest moment to establish that classification. Doing it afterwards means going back through historical transactions and re-tagging them.
It can, and it is worth raising early. The 1 April cutover argument rests on keeping one Indian financial year inside one system for Rule 11(g) purposes. Where a foreign parent reports on a calendar year or another cycle, you have two reporting calendars to satisfy, and the group audit may want its own comfort over the migration. We would rather sequence that with your group finance team before the project starts than discover the constraint during the reconciliation.
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Reviewed by the CA and CS Team, CorporateWalla · Last updated 17 August 2026 · · Sources: Ministry of Corporate Affairs, ICAI, Zoho Books India pricing
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