Principles of Accounts Payable and Receivable Management (Coursera)

Offered by Tally Education,
Principles of Accounts Payable and Receivable Management (Coursera)

This course is for those interested in starting a career in bookkeeping. The course builds on the knowledge and skills covered in the first course in this professional certificate, Fundamentals of Accounting and Reporting, and dives deeper into accounts payable and receivable management.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see Coursera's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

You will not only learn concepts related to accounts payable and receivable, but also demonstrate the basic concepts of computerized accounting using Tally. Tally is a revolutionary product which has been created with greater flexibility and a new look and feel.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:

  • Classify inventory
  • Manage accounts receivable and accounts payable
  • Manage purchase and sales orders
  • Track costs of purchase
  • Manage cost and profit centers
  • Create and maintain budgets using TallyPrime
  • Generate reports

No prior experience in bookkeeping is required. To be successful in this course, you should have completed the first course in this program, Fundamentals of Accounting and Reporting, or have the equivalent skills and knowledge.

Course 2 of 3 in the Tally Bookkeeper Professional Certificate.

Syllabus

WEEK 1
Storage and Classification of Inventory
At the end of the module- storage and classification of inventory you will be able to: • Describe inventory management• Explain storage and classification of inventory • Create inventory masters in Tally • Maintain batch-wise details • Purchase and sell the goods using batch wise feature• View the batch reports• Maintain price level and price lists • Revise the price list for different price levels

WEEK 2
Accounts Receivable and Payable Management
At the end of the module, Accounts Receivable and Payable Management, you will be able to:
• Explain accounts payable and receivables • Maintain and activate bill-wise entry in Tally • Describe the usage of bill-wise entry in purchase, sales, payment and receipt vouchers. • Manage outstandings by keeping track of receivables and payables • Generate reminder letters and confirmation of accounts • Also, split the single sales bill into multiple bills

WEEK 3
Purchase and Sales Order Management
At the end of the module, Purchase and Sales Order Management you will be able to
• Maintain complete purchase and sales order processing • View the order outstandings reports • Explain Pre-closure of Orders • Maintain Reorder Levels

WEEK 4
Tracking Additional Costs of Purchase
At the end of the module Tracking Additional Costs of Purchase, you will be able to:
• Track additional costs of purchase like Packing Cost and Transportation Cost • Record Purchase Transaction with Additional Cost Details in Voucher Mode • Rcord Purchase Transaction with Additional Cost Details in Item Invoice Mode • Record Debit Note Voucher with Additional Cost

WEEK 5
Cost/Profit Centres Management
In this module you will learn to:
• Create and maintain cost centres • Create and maintain the cost categories • View reports relating to cost centres and cost categories • Create and maintain cost centres class, and • Generate reports related to cost centre and categories

WEEK 6
Budgets and Scenarios
At the end of the Module Budgets and Scenarios, you will be able to….
• Explain the meaning and importance of maintaining a budget in an organisation • Create and maintain budgets using Tally • Generate the variance report • Manage and create Scenarios in Tally

WEEK 7
Generating & Printing Reports
At the end of the module Generating and Printing Reports, you will be able to….
• Analyze and Generate the reports like Stock Query, Godown wise Stock Availability, Stock Summary Analysis and Movement Analysis report • Compare the reports quarterly • Generate Financial Statements • Generate Books and Registers • Take Print of invoice and Reports

Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Accounting for Decision Making (Coursera) Coursera
University of Michigan

Accounting for Decision Making (Coursera)

Through this course, you will start by addressing the two “big questions” of accounting: “What do I have?” and “How did I do over time?” You will see how the two key financial statements – the balance sheet and the income statement - are designed to answer these questions and then move on to consider how individual transactions aggregate to make up these financial statements.

Nov 9th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Accounting for Business Decision Making: Strategy Assessment and Control (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Accounting for Business Decision Making: Strategy Assessment and Control (Coursera)

Accounting information is the lifeblood of the organization, as it facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions intended to achieve organizational goals. Organizations benefit from three decision-oriented roles of accounting: measurement, control, and communication. This course provides an introduction to accounting’s role in helping managers develop and implement, and improve the organization’s strategy. In particular, you will learn how non-financial and financial information is created, organized, and communicated to help managers make strategic decisions, as well as measure strategic success.

Nov 2nd 2026
4 Weeks
Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Understanding Financial Statements: Company Position (Coursera)

This course is designed to provide a basic understanding of financial statements with an emphasis on the balance sheet. However, to understand accounting driven financial statements, it is important to recognize that accounting is less about counting and more about measuring. “What is it that is being measured?” Well, as the course unfolds, you will learn about the three measurement questions and how the balance sheet helps to answer the first two of these questions.

Oct 26th 2026
4 Weeks
Finance for Non-Financial Professionals (Coursera) Coursera
University of California, Irvine

Finance for Non-Financial Professionals (Coursera)

Impact your financial decisions and learn how to affect the performance of your unit's profitability and of your organization. In this course gain a basic understanding of finance and accounting concepts to drive your organization's growth. Upon completion of this course, you will have gained general financial knowledge and an in-depth understanding of the impact of your decisions outside your functional area. Content of the course includes selected aspects of finance from a non-financial specialist perspective. Specific topics include: financial analysis; planning, forecasting, and budgeting; cash flow, and strategic financing. This class will be interactive and will require the active involvement of the participants in finance related activities.

Oct 26th 2026
4 Weeks
Accounting for Business Decision Making: Measurement and Operational Decisions (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Accounting for Business Decision Making: Measurement and Operational Decisions (Coursera)

Accounting information is the lifeblood of the organization as it facilitates and influences operational and strategic decisions intended to achieve organizational goals. Organizations benefit from three decision-oriented roles of accounting: measurement, control, and communication. This course provides an introduction to accounting’s measurement role inside of an organization and how accountants communicate information that helps managers and employees make operational decisions. In particular, you will learn how cost information is created and organized to help managers and employees conduct profitability analyses, develop and choose products, make pricing decisions, and make common business decisions.

Nov 2nd 2026
4 Weeks
Fundamentals of financial and management accounting (Coursera) Coursera
Politecnico di Milano

Fundamentals of financial and management accounting (Coursera)

This is an introductory course on financial and management accounting. The first part of this course will introduce the basic accounting principles and accounting terminology to understand how a company keeps control of financial events and provides information on how it is performing. These basic concepts will support the analysis of financial reports companies prepare. We will go through balance sheet, income statement, financial statement, learning how to read and analyze them.

Nov 2nd 2026
5-12 Weeks
Machine Learning for Accounting with Python (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Machine Learning for Accounting with Python (Coursera)

This course, Machine Learning for Accounting with Python, introduces machine learning algorithms (models) and their applications in accounting problems. It covers classification, regression, clustering, text analysis, time series analysis. It also discusses model evaluation and model optimization. This course provides an entry point for students to be able to apply proper machine learning models on business related datasets with Python to solve various problems.

Nov 16th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Accounting Analysis I: The Role of Accounting as an Information System (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Accounting Analysis I: The Role of Accounting as an Information System (Coursera)

This course is the first course in a five-course Financial Reporting Specialization that covers the collection, processing, and communication of accounting information (via financial reports) about economic entities to interested parties (i.e., managers and external stakeholders such as stockholders and creditors).

Nov 9th 2026
5-12 Weeks
Financial Analysis of Organizations (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Financial Analysis of Organizations (Coursera)

This course focuses on adopting and implementing a financially analytic mindset when analyzing organizational activities, position and performance. This course begins with an overview of an organization’s financial statements, including the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement, as well as the transactions that comprise these statements.

Nov 2nd 2026
4 Weeks
Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Introduction to Accounting Data Analytics and Visualization (Coursera)

Accounting has always been about analytical thinking. From the earliest days of the profession, Luca Pacioli emphasized the importance of math and order for analyzing business transactions. The skillset that accountants have needed to perform math and to keep order has evolved from pencil and paper, to typewriters and calculators, then to spreadsheets and accounting software. A new skillset that is becoming more important for nearly every aspect of business is that of big data analytics: analyzing large amounts of data to find actionable insights. This course is designed to help accounting students develop an analytical mindset and prepare them to use data analytic programming languages like Python and R.

Nov 2nd 2026
5-12 Weeks
Financial Reporting Capstone (Coursera) Coursera
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Financial Reporting Capstone (Coursera)

The Capstone is the culminating project in the Financial Reporting Specialization. You will have the opportunity to combine the concepts and techniques obtained through all the courses in this specialization (Accounting Analysis I: The Role of Accounting as an Information System, Accounting Analysis I: Measurement and Disclosure of Assets, Accounting Analysis II: Measurement and Disclosure of Liabilities, and Accounting Analysis II: Accounting for Liabilities and Equity) and apply them to a real world accounting project.

Nov 2nd 2026
3 Weeks
Introduction to Financial Accounting (Coursera) Coursera
University of Pennsylvania

Introduction to Financial Accounting (Coursera)

Master the technical skills needed to analyze financial statements and disclosures for use in financial analysis, and learn how accounting standards and managerial incentives affect the financial reporting process. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to read the three most common financial statements: the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows. Then you can apply these skills to a real-world business challenge as part of the Wharton Business Foundations Specialization.

Nov 16th 2026
4 Weeks