Prior to bivio, most clubs maintained their accounting records offline, using prices from the web or their local newspaper. bivio has eliminated the menial task of entering valuations by hand and the concomitant transcription errors.

Discrepancies among Providers

There are alternative data suppliers to CSI, such as Standard and Poor's and Media General Financial Services. The databases do not always agree. We cannot dictate which database is correct. Instead, our policy is to maintain data consistency, i.e. to rely on the prices CSI gives us.

Updating historical prices is problematic. Any time a price changes, we must ensure all bivio clubs' books are correct. For irrevocable transactions, e.g. withdrawals, we must adjust for the price change. We also must notify all clubs affected by this adjustment.

Meaning of Valuation

The only true value of a club's holdings is to convert (sell) all non-cash investments. A nightly valuation of this sort would be extremely costly, of course, as it would incur commissions. Any other valuation is only an approximation.

Many clubs use the price in their local newspaper to value their club's portfolio. This is as legitimate as relying on bivio or any other Internet provider. Again, consistency is paramount.

Committed to Quality

bivio is committed to providing the highest quality service. We take the issue of data quality very seriously. Our CEO has his Ph.D. in astrophysics. Our CTO spent many years working on multi-vendor price quote databases. Rest assured that we take the issue of price discrepancies between price databases very seriously.

We appreciate your understanding. If you notice errors in calculating your club's valuation or gross errors in closing prices, please contact us. As always, our support team will respond to the problem immediately.

CSI bases its data input on sources believed by it to be reliable and will endeavor to ensure that the data are complete, accurate and timely. However, CSI does not represent, warrant, or guarantee such completeness, accuracy or timeliness, and it shall have no liability of any kind whatsoever to bivio's customers, or to any other party, on account of any incompleteness of, inaccuracies in or untimeliness of the CSI data provided. CSI expressly disclaims all warranties of fitness of the data or computations and analyses thereof for a particular purpose or use.