Financial Reporting Built for Growing Private Companies

Strengthen your reporting processes with clarity, control, and expert support. Whether your priority is improving internal financial reporting, preparing for audits, or building the operational discipline that supports long-term growth via IPO or M&A, private company deals, DFIN provides the software and services you need to run with confidence.

Solving for Reporting Complexity, Stakeholder Expectations, and Data Security

 

There are many events that may trigger the need for financial reporting with our private company clients, including new financing rounds, strategic partnerships, M&A exploration, or audit preparation. With DFIN’s comprehensive private company financial solutions, your organization can benefit from:

Elevate Financial Confidence

Enhance the accuracy and consistency of financial reporting for boards, lenders, investors, and internal teams.

Increase Transparency

Enhance visibility and transparency without the requirements of public company reporting.

Strengthen Operational Readiness

Scale reporting processes efficiently as your organization matures and expectations rise, including public company preparation.

Safeguard Critical Information

Protect sensitive information during audits, lender reviews, fundraising, diligence, or strategic evaluations.

Solutions for Private Company Reporting Excellence

Increase Speed and Accuracy in Financial Reporting

Use ActiveDisclosure™ private company financial software to streamline annual, quarterly, and management reporting with secure collaboration, Excel native linking, real time checks, and audit friendly workflows.

Use ActiveDisclosure™ private company financial software to streamline annual, quarterly, and management reporting with secure collaboration, Excel native linking, real time checks, and audit friendly workflows.

Strengthen Security and Control for Sensitive Information

Use Venue® VDR to share financial, operational, or legal documents during audits, lender reviews, financing activities, or diligence processes. Enable fast, permissioned access across internal and external teams.

Use Venue® VDR to share financial, operational, or legal documents during audits, lender reviews, financing activities, or diligence processes. Enable fast, permissioned access across internal and external teams.

Improve ESG Transparency and Build Stakeholder Trust

Centralize sustainability data and simplify ESG reporting with purpose built tools that help you create clear, consistent disclosures for investors, partners, and customers.

Centralize sustainability data and simplify ESG reporting with purpose built tools that help you create clear, consistent disclosures for investors, partners, and customers.

Deliver Professional, Compliant Governance and Stakeholder Materials

Produce polished board materials, investor updates, and governance communications with expert-supported design, formatting, and production services.

Produce polished board materials, investor updates, and governance communications with expert-supported design, formatting, and production services.

Access White Glove Professional Services

Lean on dedicated specialists who help organize reporting materials, coordinate workflows, manage timelines, and ensure every deliverable is accurate, consistent, and ready for internal or external stakeholders. If your business eventually pursues public company activity, your reporting infrastructure and documentation will already meet a higher standard.

Lean on dedicated specialists who help organize reporting materials, coordinate workflows, manage timelines, and ensure every deliverable is accurate, consistent, and ready for internal or external stakeholders. If your business eventually pursues public company activity, your reporting infrastructure and documentation will already meet a higher standard.

Why Private Companies Choose DFIN

DFIN stands apart from other private company financial reporting solutions thanks to the unified ecosystem we create across reporting, security, and corporate governance. We bring considerable expertise across private and public company reporting and are trusted by capital markets professionals to provide readiness for private company transactions such as IPO or M&A as well as fundraising activities. Our combination of technology and expert services have made us a go-to source for years.

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