Microsoft Dynamics GP is a very popular system with NFP organizations.  Over 3,500 Not Profit / Associations already use Microsoft Dynamics GP to control and manage their financials.  Some of the clients that we have helped implement systems in Houston include Houston Endowment, Goodwill, Red Cross, The Houston Chapter of CPAs, Houston Association of Realtors to name a few.  Here is what one of our Clients says about Microsoft Dynamics GP and The Progressive Group:

Financial Reporting -Creating reports that everyone can understand and delivering them to the people who require them can be a daunting task. Microsoft  for Analytics–FRx® helps you master your financial reporting processes with high-performance capabilities that give you comprehensive, flexible, presentation-quality financial and management reports that are easy to create, distribute, and use. Create reports using a “building block” approach to ensure each report is built to meet your needs, and take advantage of Web-enabled reporting so that you can distribute reports and other critical information to anybody, at any time. Empower everyone—from the board of directors to the staff accountants—with a full understanding of funds, expenses, and financial performance.

Excel Budgeting - One of the biggest challenges facing not-for-profit organizations is solid budget planning and management. Use Excel to develop your budget and automatically load it into Microsoft Dynamics GP.  Careful administration of both operating expenses and cash flow are essential, not only for meeting regulatory compliance, but also for demonstrating the efficient use of resources to secure future funding. With strong budget planning and management capabilities, Microsoft Financial Management helps position your organization for excellent financial practice and performance.

Encumbrance Management - Microsoft Dynamics GP Encumbrance Management—Staying within budget is complicated by the need to track encumbrances, an important task for not-for-profits. Recording encumbrances serves as a valuable aid for keeping expenditures within budget because without proper handling of encumbered funds, organizations run the risk of overspending.  Often, processes for checking budgets against expenditures are manual and time-consuming.  With Encumbrance Management, encumbered funds can be tracked automatically, an activity that can help reduce the risk of overspending on specific accounts with automated messages.  Also, it helps ensure funds will be available when purchases are made, providing immediate tracing upon entering transactions and encouraging effective cash planning and control.

Interfund Management - . Microsoft Dynamics GP Interfund Management provides the confidence that accounts are balanced and error free.  Interfund Management helps you manage multiple funds across several projects accurately and seamlessly, while saving employees valuable time. Designed for organizations that require the ability to transfer balances between funds, Interfund automatically analyzes transactions and makes adjusting entries without user intervention. This helps reconcile fund information and balance accounts, not only helping to eliminate the potential for errors, but also facilitating successful audits. In addition, Interfund Management automatically generates "Due To/Due From" transactions to ensure that individual fund accounts remain balanced in accordance with interfund practices.  To accommodate the unique reporting needs of not-for-profit organizations, you can assign to each fund a unique ledger account that provides revenue, expense, and balance sheet reports; and you can summarize funds as a whole within the organization. In addition, you can edit reports for verification prior to posting without affecting the General Ledger, thereby making financial results more accurate and accessible. This kind of verification helps ensure effective compliance with strict FASB reporting requirements.

Grant Management - Microsoft Dynamics GP Grant Management automates and helps streamline the grant management process and lets you keep a closer eye on daily transactions and expenditures. Tight integration with Analytical Accounting lets you easily create budgets for grants and other transaction dimensions for greater insight into your grants and funding sources. With Grant Management, you will also be able to: