When someone asks whether MIP has a grant module, the word grant is doing too much work. MIP Fund Accounting can be an excellent financial system for grant accounting. It also offers Grant Administration functionality that can associate additional information with grant codes. Neither fact automatically means that MIP will...
Five Things to Understand Before Building Another MIP Report
MIP Fund Accounting contains an enormous amount of reportable information. That does not mean every report will immediately answer the question you had in mind. When an MIP report is disappointing, the instinct is often to add columns, change filters, or create another custom report. Sometimes that is the right...
Why It Is Time to Say Goodbye to Custom Code and Manual Data Integration
Manual data integration is still part of daily life for many finance teams. A file is exported from one system, opened in Excel, reformatted, reviewed, adjusted, and then imported into another application. The process may be familiar enough that it no longer feels strange. That familiarity is part of the...