Crowe Navigator for dealers

Crowe Navigator for dealers

Manage performance and risk across your dealerships consistently and in real time


Tracking sales, cash flow, operations, and more across multiple dealerships requires visibility and the right data. Crowe Navigator® for dealers, a web-based performance management solution, gives you a daily view across your entire business as well as tools and triggers that help you make timely, informed decisions.

Help eliminate guesswork from your management strategy with precise and timely analysis


The Crowe Navigator solution is easy to use and can help you:

Resolve exceptions

Compare and improve store performance

Adjust to trends

Improve processes

Manage critical exposures

Key features allow you to:

  • Pull data from your dealership management system into a central data warehouse
  • View essential information from multiple dealerships in groupwide analyses, side-by-side reports, and drill-down views
  • Quickly and immediately address issues with the help of key data points and customizable alerts
  • Improve cash flow with customizable thresholds for principal balance sheet accounts
  • Adjust your playbook daily as you receive new information
At-A-Glance
eMonitor

Streamline and manage balance sheet accounts

eMonitor quickly and easily monitors frozen cash and provides users with a summary of conditional results from each dealership’s scheduled balance sheet accounts. It sorts through your most critical schedules and displays only the results you want based on thresholds you establish.

Product features

Conditional balance sheet information
Each measure has a threshold you can set and adjust so you see only the most important results.

Multiple dealership view
Get results for all stores, side by side, on a single page, so you can quickly spot areas of strength or weakness.

Detailed drill-down
Click any result to see the individual items noted. Click again to view journal details for each line item within.

Export to Microsoft Excel
Export formatted information to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software anytime.

Crowe ExpenSight

Keep a sharp eye on expenses in your dealership

With Crowe ExpenSight, a module for the Crowe Navigator for dealers solution, sort and view expenses by vendor or by expense category with detailed drill-downs for journal and dealer management system (DMS) source information.

Track expenses and identify fluctuations

Managers can easily view expenses posted to departments and quickly see fluctuations with the trending feature.

Use Crowe ExpenSight as part of your month-end process to confirm that all expenses have been recorded, or use it during the month to flag any unusual expenses.

Finance & insurance

Gain visibility into deal details

Get a daily snapshot of each deal booked by finance and insurance (F&I), summarizing key deal data. See F&I and accounting booking dates along with each component of the recorded gross. Compare gross profit recorded in F&I and in accounting on a deal-by-deal basis.

  • Visibility into deal details can help improve cash flow and reporting accuracy and help alleviate month-end bottlenecks.
  • Manage deals from F&I to accounting with key data points to address issues as they arise. With the click of a button, you can see which deals are booked by F&I and not recorded in accounting.
  • Generate a detailed listing of deals, adjustments, and other postings constituting vehicle gross profit – front and back end – that aligns to your general ledger.
Financial statement analysis

Product features

Groupwide dealership analyses
See results for all dealerships in a side-by-side format on a single page.

Trend views
Select a single dealership for multiple periods to see trends over time.

Report viewing
Opt to see results for summary, new vehicle, used vehicle, service, parts, body shop, noncontrollable expenses, and balance sheets.

Normalize data
Tailor financial statement analysis (FSA) for normalized manufacturer-specific reporting. 

Peer data
View regularly updated data on dealer peers to observe and quickly react to market conditions. 

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Work with us


Learn more about how you can use Crowe Navigator to put your data to better use and enhance your ability to manage your multiple dealerships. Contact Crowe today.
Jodi-Kippe-Social
Jodi L. Kippe
Partner, Audit & Assurance

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