Our extensive experience within the automotive sector enables us to offer audit, assurance, finance, and tax services that can help give you edge over the competition. With specialist business accounting and strategic advice, we can support your motor business to drive profitability and success, maximising any available tax savings and plan for growth. We understand the complexities and nuances of the sector enabling us to deliver trusted, expert financial guidance to any automotive brand or dealership.
Cashflow Management, Reporting & Forecasting
With market fluctuations having a great impact on the motor trade, we can help you to manage cash flow and offer strategic business advice that will enable your automotive business to cope with the market conditions.
Having the correct stock levels and achieving sales targets and industry bonuses, needs constant monitoring. We help a large number of dealers with their systems and financial requirements, delivering statutory compliance services, allowing our clients to accurately align business performance alongside business strategy.
Interpreting & Navigating Complex Tax Regulation
Regulatory demands on the automotive industry are quickly changing and interpreting complex taxation regulation can be difficult. Our specialist tax advisers are here to support you through these changes, ensuring compliance, whilst at the same time minimising liabilities, protecting assets and making sure you benefit from all tax relief and capital allowances available, both on a corporate and personal tax basis.
Audit and Assurance for Automotive Businesses
Our extensive team of audit and assurance experts have specialist knowledge of the motor industry, having worked with many automotive brands and dealerships. We strongly believe that your audit should not be seen as a box-ticking exercise, but instead should be a process from which you receive real, measurable added value.
By spending time with you and allowing us to understand your automotive business at a strategic level, our team will ensure your annual audit is an opportunity to align the operational with the strategic, creating within the business the conditions to facilitate profitable growth and increased business value.
With over 100 people working across our wider Audit & Assurance team, we have the scale and size to be able to deliver any audit, to time, wherever you’re based in the UK. Our membership of MSI Global, one of the world’s largest professional services networks, also gives us the ability to lead multi-jurisdiction group audits.
Growth, Merger and Acquisition
Our experienced corporate finance team have extensive expertise within the motor industry and can provide specialist support and advice to assist with every stage of your business life cycle. From funding to help sustainability or assist growth, through to positioning your business for sale, our team can carry out market study and strategy setting analysis, search and screening of prospects, deal structuring, due diligence, valuation, financial modelling, negotiation, and post-merger integration.
Succession planning
Planning for succession or restructure takes careful consideration, and the sooner you plan and prepare for the future of your business, the greater the opportunity for continued success. Our team have vast experience of supporting family and shareholder-owned automotive businesses in preparation for the next stage and can help guide all parties, whether you’re preparing for transfer of ownership, management buyout or sale.
Strategic Business Advisory Services
The automotive market is rapidly evolving, presenting those in the motor industry with new opportunities to scale and diversify, below are just some of the additional areas we can provide support:
