
Tally is great for accounting but limited for analysis. Export the data once a month and Excel does the rest.
1. Export from TallyPrime
- Open the report — for example Display More Reports → Account Books → Sales Register, then drill into the months.
- Press Alt+F12 or use Basis of Values to show detailed (item-level) data if needed.
- Alt+E → Export → format Excel (Spreadsheet), choose a folder, export.
💡 Export every month into the same folder with names like
Sales_2022-04.xlsx. Power Query can then combine them automatically.
2. Clean with Power Query
- Data → Get Data → From Folder → pick the export folder → Combine & Transform.
- Remove Tally’s header rows (company name, period) with Remove Top Rows, then Use First Row as Headers.
- Filter out subtotal rows (where Date is blank), set types (Date, Decimal).
- Add a Month column: Add Column → Date → Month → Start of Month.
See combining files from a folder for the detailed steps.
3. The dashboard
- Pivot: Month in rows, Party in columns or as a slicer, Amount as values.
- A line chart of monthly sales and a bar chart of top 10 customers.
- KPI cells: this month vs last month with
=GETPIVOTDATAor SUMIFS.
4. Next month
Drop the new export into the folder and press Data → Refresh All. Every step re-runs; nothing is retyped.
⚠️ Tally exports amounts with Dr/Cr columns or signs depending on the report. Check one month’s total against Tally before you trust the dashboard.
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