Non-profit organizations need to deliver information to a wide range of people — at the lowest cost possible. Meeting both those requirements and serving over 24,000 community members makes for a real challenge. Through an integrated system built on Microsoft Dynamics GP, a large non-profit manages Point of Sale, fundraising, payroll and time and attendance. [...]
continue reading...Dynamics ERP for Not for Profit
How to Simplify the Non-Profit Budget Process
Each year I teach a course at Belmont University on financial management for future non-profit leaders— people who never thought they would have to deal with finance. Between arcane accounting rules, the pronouncements of standards boards, and the names of governing agencies, they have a lot of ground to cover. When we get to the section on [...]
continue reading...NPO Deep Dive Part III: Managing Overheads
Who among us wouldn’t like the majority of our donated dollars to go directly to “the cause” or people being served? Indeed - donors and funders are sometimes so focused on the concept of “limiting overhead”, that one of the most commonly used measures of an NPO’s organizational efficiency is the “percentage of total expense [...]
continue reading...Need to Update NAV for the Return of BC’s Provincial Sales Tax?
In just over a month the province of British Columbia will return to a provincial sales tax (PST) system, ditching the harmonized sales tax (HST) that had been brought in 3 years prior and then voted down by public referendum. It can be challenging for businesses going through sales tax changes to manage all the [...]
continue reading...Microsoft Dynamics GP Proves it Delivers Productivity
Are your employees hampered by inefficient business processes? Do they struggle to communicate with others in different functional areas of the organization? Are they spending too much time trying to access data that may not even be accurate? If your answer to any of these questions is “yes”, then your employees are not able to [...]
continue reading...Non-Profit Deep Dive Part Two: Budgeting As An Act of Imagination And An Act Of Commitment
People acknowledge, grudgingly, the need to create a budget. After all, what proper organization does not tell its board what money will come in next year and get their OK to spend it? The temptation may be to plod through it as an act of pure formal compliance, but that misses the point. The budget [...]
continue reading...In the Field with Microsoft Dynamics ERP RapidStart Services – First Impressions
Creating exceptional client experiences and helping organizations perform at their best is in our corporate DNA at Catapult ERP Services, and is at the heart of what our team is most passionate about. To us, building and supporting relationships is at the core of delivering exceptional results. We are always looking out for innovative tools [...]
continue reading...Choosing the Right Performance Metrics for Non-Profit Organizations
Success in any business environment requires an ability to define what performance looks like and accurately measure performance and results. In the world of non-profit organizations, this measurement becomes more important and complex because financial profit, or return on investment, is never the ultimate goal. There is another set of metrics involved, and determining [...]
continue reading...Video: Non-Profit Organization Upgrades to Dynamics SL 2011
American Planning Association, a leading non-profit education and membership organization, upgrades to Microsoft Dynamics SL 2011 for reporting, financial and project accounting functionality. A long time SBS Group client, American Planning implemented Dynamics SL fourteen years ago and recently upgraded to the 2011 version. The upgrade was successful and the company is working with SBS [...]
continue reading...Deep Dive Series: Strategic Financial Management for Non-profit Organizations
Non-profit organizations, or NPOs, make up a large sector of the economy that is not focused on providing goods and services to make a profit for shareholders. Instead, these critical organizations serve a diverse group of stakeholders who can be either people or groups who stand to benefit directly from the work of the organization, [...]
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