Providing transparent and accurate financial performance data to investors, partners and auditors is becoming increasingly important, if not critical for those engaged in the business of private equity and venture capital. In the recent past, this complex environment was tied together with a myriad of Excel® spreadsheets that served to aggregate, consolidate and report portfolio-company performance, making this task extraordinarily inefficient, costly and fraught with error. This paper will frame the problem in some detail and will offer several solutions designed to meet the needs of capital providers that seek to provide more accurate and consistent financial reporting to those that depend on it most.