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View all of the different services offered for Sage MIP Fund Accounting.

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Here is a sample offering of services available to Sage MIP Fund Accounting customers worldwide:

Conversions to Sage MIP Fund Accounting
  • Need to bring your historical data into Sage MIP Fund Accounting?
  • Need to bring in Beginning Balances from your old system into Sage MIP Fund Acco unting?
  • Need to import Vendor, Customer, Chart of Account, Employee, or other information from your legacy system to get started more quickly with Sage MIP Fund Accounting?
Alleviate the initial tedious data entry that comes along with changing accounting systems. Our expert team of database consultants will work with your accounting and IT staff to create custom imports from your legacy system to Sage MIP Fund Accounting. Spend time entering transactions and creating reports, not entering in master file data!

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Change Fiscal Year
  • Has your fiscal year end date changed?
Our expert team of database consultants can update your fiscal year from the old one to the new one. All of your historical data will be updated!

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Change Segment Type
  • Do you wish one your balancing segments was non-balancing?
  • Do you wish one of your non-balancing segments was balancing?
Our expert team of database consultants can modify your existing database to change the segment type and modify all historical data to reflect that change.

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Change Segment Length
  • Has organization growth dictated a need for a segment to be larger than when the organization database was originally constructed?
  • Have you taken on more grants and programs than previously imagined and run out of room to add additional grant or program values?
Our expert team of database consultants can change the segment length and have it reflected in your historical data. Likewise, if you’d like to use a new numbering scheme along with the new segment length, our team can accommodate that request, as well.

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Change Character Type
  • Wish you or your predecessor had not made all the segment character types Alpha-only?
Our expert team of database consultants can modify your existing database to change the character type of your segment to that which is now most appropriate for your organization.

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Add Segments
  • Has the board or your Executive Director asked you for reports base upon information that you are not currently gathering in Sage MIP Fund Accounting?
  • Do you now need to track additional data?
Our expert team of database consultants can create additional segments and populate the historical data to reflect its addition into the organization database.

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Remove Segments
  • Tired of filling in value(s) in a segment(s) that you no longer require or track?
Our expert team of database consultants can remove your non-required segments and save you data entry key strokes.

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Modify Data
  • Need to renumber your chart of accounts?
  • Need to renumber values in any existing segment?
  • Need to increase the size of a data entry field (i.e. session/document/transaction description)?
Let our expert team of database consultants perform their magic and provide you with an organization database that fulfills all your current needs.

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Data Cleanup
  • Has data been entered into the system in an inconsistent manner?

  • Have you always wanted to change master file item names?
Our expert team of database consultants will work with you to design a plan to get your data cleaned up.

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Remove History
  • Tired of seeing old data in your system?

  • Want to get rid of the converted DOS data in your organization database?
Our expert team of database consultants can remove history from your organization database. Not to worry, our team will update the beginning balances.

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Data Dump
  • Need your Sage MIP Fund Accounting data in a different format?
Our expert team of database consultants can dump your Sage MIP Fund Accounting data for you.

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Custom Import/Import Definition Creation
  • Need to import a budget from a non-Sage MIP Fund Accounting budget program?
  • Need to import data received from a third party?
Importing data can save data entry time and alleviate keying errors. Our expert team of database consultants can create a custom one-time import into Sage MIP Fund Accounting.

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Third Party Integration into or from Sage MIP Fund Accounting
  • Need to import data on a regular basis form another system?
  • Need to import payroll data from your outsourced payroll provider?
  • Need to import entries created by individuals in excel?
  • Need to send Sage MIP Fund Accounting data out to another system?
Our expert team of database consultants will work with your finance and IT staff to create custom imports from your third party packages into Sage MIP Fund Accounting or to create data files from Sage MIP Fund Accounting that can be read by your third party application.

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