Posts by MIP Team
Streamline Your Nonprofit’s Payroll
Nonprofit hiring is still suffering from the effects of the Great Resignation. As nonprofits work to become more employee-friendly, adopting workflows around payroll will help improve employee satisfaction and allow teams to reallocate resources to other processes. If your payroll system is antiquated or encounters frequent errors and miscalculations, it may be time to upgrade to…
Read MoreHow Technology Makes Talent Acquisition, Onboarding, and Development Easy
Employees are a vital asset to any organization. When it comes to talent acquisition and management, today’s fast-paced business environment might leave any organization relying on outdated practices behind. Fortunately, technology is evolving to streamline these processes and many others. Utilizing industry-leading technology solutions can improve how your organization recruits, onboards, and manages its employees,…
Read MoreMIP Customer Resource Library: How to Maximize MIP for Audits
Your organization is already in charge of its financial story using MIP Fund Accounting®, and when it comes time for an audit, we’ve got you covered there as well. MIP helps speed up and simplify your audit prep.
Read MoreFixing the Inability to Manage Data in Human Service Organizations
Having accurate data is essential for many organizations, especially human services organizations. Whether your human service organization is in government, the private sector, or a nonprofit, it depends on data to measure program success, ensure compliance, and generate reports. Good quality data can help your human service organization accomplish a wide range of tasks more…
Read MoreFrom The Lighter Side at MIP History
MIP’s pursuit of excellence in its 40 years is evidenced by its long list of customers, awards, and reputation. That said, there have been some “lighter” moments that are fondly remembered during its evolution through the years. In the early 1990s, before the advent of email (and long before PDFs and the cloud), it was…
Read MoreBuckets of Saving for Buying a Nonprofit Accounting Solution
Among the nonprofit professionals we surveyed, almost half use six digital tools to perform their duties. As many as 23% rely on eight digital tools. However, reduced efficiency results from this complex digital infrastructure, and 78% of nonprofit professionals report spending about a quarter of the workday juggling between several systems. Fortunately, you can increase efficiency and…
Read MoreHonoring Our History
While MIP began as a vision shared by Bill Locklear and Hans “Rusty” Turley, it is Locklear who, according to the legend, dedicated space in his home for creating the original software that went on to become today’s powerful MIP Fund Accounting solution. But there was more to Locklear than being simply a product inventor. …
Read MoreFrom a Vision To The Accounting Leader – A Brief History of MIP’S First 40 Years
What started in Austin, Texas, in 1982 as two men with a vision to develop a flexible, easy-to-use fund accounting system for the nonprofit sector is now the leading accounting software for a wide variety of nonprofits. Forty years later, MIP Fund Accounting is thriving across health
Read MoreWhy Your Nonprofit Needs to Report a Statement of Activities
Your nonprofit works to accomplish its mission, and when it comes to communicating that to donors and external stakeholders, no document is as helpful as a statement of activities. What is a Nonprofit Statement of Activities? A statement of activities shows your organization’s revenue and expenses over a reporting period and relays that your organization…
Read MoreOpen Banking With Mastercard: How MIP Connects Your Financial Data
As today’s leading accounting software for nonprofits and governmental organizations, MIP Fund Accounting lets you manage finances, track every fund, and follow every dollar. But have you ever wondered how we make that happen? What’s going on behind the scenes to power our robust reporting platform? The answer is: only the very best financial technology…
Read MoreHow Area Agency on Aging of Southwest Arkansas Grew with MIP
MIP Fund Accounting® is celebrating 40 years of working with more than 6,000 nonprofits, and it’s been quite the journey. Micro Information Products was founded in Houston in 1982. The company released MIP Fund Accounting as proprietary software for “those who need the difference,” kicking off a storied history ripe with innovation. After a successful…
Read MoreMIP Fund Accounting Earns 3 Top Rated Awards from TrustRadius
MIP Fund Accounting® earned 2022 Top Rated Awards from TrustRadius in Nonprofit Accounting, Accounts Payable, and Expense Management categories.
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