Industry — Automotive
Built for new- and used-car dealers, BHPH lots, RV and powersports dealers, express and full-service car wash operators, quick-lube and tire shops, collision centers, independent repair garages, and the multi-location automotive groups consolidating them.
About the industry
Automotive businesses are inventory-and-real-estate-heavy operations dressed up as service businesses. New- and used-car dealers live on F&I gross and floor-plan interest; BHPH lots live on the loan portfolio; car washes live on membership recurring revenue and the depreciation schedule of a $4M tunnel; repair and collision shops live on technician productivity and parts margin.
We work with franchised new-car dealers, used-car and BHPH operators, RV/marine/powersports dealers, express tunnel and full-service car wash chains, quick-lube and tire shops, collision and body shops, independent repair garages, performance and EV specialty shops, fleet maintenance providers, and the multi-rooftop and PE-backed groups rolling them up.
From dealership LIFO and floor-plan accounting to car wash membership rev rec, cost segregation on tunnels and service bays, R&D credits on EV and ADAS repair work, multi-state nexus on parts and warranty, and clean reporting to OEM, lender, and PE stakeholders — we run the back office big groups expect, at the price independent operators can actually afford.
What we deliver
Built for new- and used-car dealers, BHPH lots, RV and powersports dealers, express and full-service car wash operators, quick-lube and tire shops, collision centers, independent repair garages, and the multi-location automotive groups consolidating them.
Monthly close tied to your DMS (CDK, Reynolds, Dealertrack, Tekion, AutoMate, Frazer) — new and used inventory reconciliation, floor-plan interest and curtailments, F&I income and chargeback reserves, holdback and incentive tracking, factory financial statement preparation, and clean OEM-grade reporting.
ASC 606 revenue recognition for unlimited wash club memberships, deferred revenue waterfalls, chargeback and churn reporting, multi-site P&L by tunnel, and the labor and chemical cost benchmarks PE-backed platforms use to price their next acquisition.
Dealership LIFO elections and IPIC calculations, engineering-backed cost segregation on car wash tunnels, service bays, body shops, and dealer real estate, R&D credit positioning on EV/ADAS calibration and process improvement, §179 and bonus depreciation on lifts and equipment, and §1031 like-kind exchanges on dealer real estate.
BHPH and Related Finance Company structures: portfolio accounting, allowance for loan losses under CECL, dealer-vs-RFC inter-company, interest income recognition, repo and recovery accounting, and the tax positioning that keeps cash where it belongs.
CPA-certified financials for OEMs, floor-plan and BHPH lenders, sureties, and acquirers — covering inventory and AR collateral testing, related-party transactions across rooftops, real estate and management companies, and revenue recognition complexity unique to automotive.
Rooftop- and tunnel-level profitability diagnostics, acquisition diligence on tuck-in dealers, car wash chains, and repair groups, recap and sell-side prep for owner-operators going to PE, and the working-capital and inventory-peg mechanics that decide what actually hits the wire at close.
Stop overpaying. Start strategizing.
