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A point of view from Veramatic · Fall 2026
Your biggest accounting cost isn’t time. It’s expertise.
Three dealership controllers show where manual reconciliation ties up financial expertise, what it costs, and how they got it back.
Get the free eBookWritten for both sides of the close
For controllers, it puts language around work you know intimately. For dealer principals and GMs, it shows how much invisible infrastructure the accounting team carries every month.
What you’ll take away
See where the capacity is hiding, and what it’s costing you
95%+
Confidence that doesn’t depend on one person
Why a manual close puts a ceiling on certainty, and how one controller went from 85–90% confidence at submission to 95% or better.
$35,000
Risk you can’t see in the financials
How one ordinary keystroke became an unrecoverable write-off, and what surfacing exceptions early is worth.
$70,000
Capacity you’re already paying for
Estimated annual CPA fees saved after cleaner books cut year-end visits from five to two.
Inside the eBook
Built to use with your team, not just to read
- Five questions that show whether this applies to your back office.
- Why the DMS isn’t the problem. A system of record isn’t a system of reconciliation.
- Three real closes from controllers in Colorado, Alabama and New Jersey, with the numbers.
- Seven things the dealership gets back when repeatable work stops consuming the month.
- A 12-question self-check for the people who produce the close and the people who depend on it.
Who wrote it
Written from inside the accounting office
The perspective comes from Jen Speerbrecher, Veramatic’s VP of Industry Solutions: 30 years in dealership accounting, including 10 running a consolidated back office for a 35-rooftop group.
She has closed the month by hand, hunted the inverted control number, and trained the teams who do it. The guide is written with that respect for the work.
