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Rabi Agrawal & AssociatesChartered AccountantsRaipur & Kalahandi (Odisha)
Accounting & Bookkeeping Services in Raipur

Accounting & Bookkeeping Services in Raipur

Practice Overview

Accounting & Bookkeeping Services in RaipurOverview & Compliance

Chartered Accountancy advisory and audit services in Raipur, Chhattisgarh & Kalahandi, Odisha. Partner-led verification ensuring full statutory compliance under applicable laws.

The gap between a business with good accounting and one without rarely shows up in the accounts themselves — it shows up everywhere else. It shows up as a tax audit that takes three weeks instead of three days. It shows up as input tax credit that could not be recovered because a supplier mismatch was found in March instead of in the month it happened. It shows up as a loan application delayed because the bank cannot reconcile the figures presented to the figures filed. Accounting done monthly, as transactions occur, prevents all of this. Accounting done once a year, under pressure, causes most of it.

We provide monthly accounting and bookkeeping services for businesses across Raipur and Chhattisgarh — traders, manufacturers, contractors, professionals and companies of every size.

What monthly bookkeeping actually includes

Transaction recording. Sales, purchases, expenses and receipts entered as they occur, not reconstructed from a shoebox of invoices at the year end.

Bank reconciliation, every month, so that discrepancies — a cheque not yet cleared, a bank charge not yet recorded, an error on either side — are caught while the relevant month is still fresh rather than discovered as an unexplained difference twelve months later.

Creditor and debtor reconciliation, matching what the books show a business owes and is owed against actual supplier and customer statements, which is where genuine errors and genuine disputes are both caught early enough to resolve them without cost.

Stock records, for trading and manufacturing businesses, kept current rather than estimated at the year end — a genuine difficulty for steel, cement, hardware and commodity businesses in particular, where stock is often the single largest figure in the accounts and the one most closely examined at audit.

GST reconciliation, matching the purchase register against what suppliers have actually filed each month, which is the only way input tax credit is genuinely protected — left until the annual return, a mismatch that could have been raised with a supplier months earlier is often no longer correctable at all.

TDS reconciliation, matching tax deducted and deposited against the deduction register, so that credit is not lost to a mismatched PAN or a wrong quarter.

Monthly MIS reporting, where useful — a simple profit and loss position, debtor and creditor ageing, and a cash position, giving an owner a genuine monthly picture of the business rather than an annual one arriving nine months after the year in question has ended.

Sectors we work with in Raipur

Steel, iron and scrap trading and manufacturing. High-volume transactions, substantial stock, and the reverse charge and tax deduction obligations on metal scrap that changed in October 2024, all of which depend on accurate, current books rather than a year-end reconstruction.

Rice mills and agricultural trading. Yield accounting, seasonal stock movement, and the distinction between exempt and taxable produce.

Cement, hardware and building materials distribution. Stock across many product lines and, where installation is involved, the distinction between a supply of goods and a works contract.

Works contractors. Running-account bills, retention money, and work in progress — all of which need to be tracked through the year rather than assembled retrospectively for the accounts.

Transport and logistics operators. Vehicle-wise records and freight income.

Professionals and consultancies, whose bookkeeping is simpler in structure but no less subject to the income tax record-keeping obligations that apply to specified professions regardless of income.

Companies of every size, for whom bookkeeping feeds directly into the statutory audit, and where properly maintained monthly books are what makes that audit efficient rather than an annual ordeal.

Why this work is best done alongside, not after

Bookkeeping treated as a stand-alone task, handed to whoever is available and reviewed only at the year end, tends to be the most expensive version of the service precisely because it is the cheapest to buy. Errors compound silently through the year, reconciliations that should take an hour each month become a multi-week exercise in September, and the resulting accounts are often not in a state that supports the audit, the tax return or the GST reconciliation properly, however competently each of those is then handled separately.

We treat bookkeeping as integrated with the tax, GST and audit work we do for a client, rather than as a separate function handed off and collected once a year — because the quality of every one of those other services depends directly on the quality of the books behind them.

Scope of our work

We maintain monthly books of account, including transaction recording, bank reconciliation, and creditor and debtor reconciliation; maintain stock records for trading and manufacturing businesses; reconcile the GST purchase register against supplier filings and the TDS deduction register against deposits, monthly rather than annually; provide monthly management reporting where useful to the business; and finalise accounts ready for statutory or tax audit, so that the audit itself proceeds from properly maintained records.

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Office Locations:

Raipur: Shyam Plaza, Pandri

Kalahandi: Main Road, Jayapatna

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Frequently Asked Questions

We currently do our own bookkeeping and only bring in an accountant at year end. Is that a problem?
It is usually the more expensive approach, even though it looks cheaper through the year. Reconciliations left until the year end become a rushed exercise, and by then some things can no longer be fixed — input tax credit dependent on a supplier correcting a return is the clearest example, since that has its own annual cut-off. Monthly reconciliation is what actually protects credit and produces a faster, cleaner audit, rather than adding a cost on top of an eventual one.
Can you take over our existing accounting software, or do we need to switch?
Generally we work with what a business already uses, provided it meets the basic requirements for proper record-keeping — including, for a company, the condition that electronically maintained records remain accessible in India and are hosted on servers physically located in India. We would flag this specifically if it were a concern rather than require a change of software as a matter of course.
How do you handle stock for a trading business?
Through monthly reconciliation between physical stock movement, purchase and sales records, and the books, rather than a single physical count at the year end. For businesses in steel, cement, commodities and similar trades, where stock is typically the largest figure in the accounts, this is where accuracy matters most and where a once-a-year approach is weakest.
Do you also handle GST and TDS reconciliation, or only the accounting itself?
Both, and we treat them as inseparable from bookkeeping rather than as separate tasks. Reconciling the purchase register against what suppliers have filed, and matching TDS deducted against TDS deposited, are done monthly as part of the ordinary bookkeeping cycle, because that is the only point at which a discrepancy can still realistically be corrected.
We are a small professional practice with straightforward income. Do we need the same level of bookkeeping as a trading business?
The complexity is lower, but the obligation itself is not optional — certain professions are required to maintain books of account under income tax law regardless of income. For a straightforward practice, monthly bookkeeping is typically a light, quick exercise rather than a heavy one, and it still pays for itself at return-filing time by avoiding a rushed reconstruction of the year's records.
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