DEALERSHIPS

You can't buy experience

Carl Jensen has grown up in the industry — his father, Jeff, built one of the region's most respected dealership-focused tax practices, and that legacy is now part of our firm. He knows most of the dealers in the state by name, and they know him. That relationship capital means he understands not just your financials but your history, your goals, and your business situation.

Carl leads all tax planning and preparation for dealership clients, with deep expertise in LIFO elections, multi-rooftop entity structuring, OEM incentive treatment, and owner compensation optimization.

the perfect complement

If Carl knows where every dollar has been, Kyle Robbins knows where every dollar is going. Kyle brings 15 years of dealership-exclusive audit experience, including five years with a national firm where he built the technical foundation that dealers expect. He has served as the primary audit relationship for some of the largest dealer groups in Utah — operations where the margin for error is small, the lender requirements are demanding, and a generalist approach isn't an option.

That background translates directly to what you get when Kyle is on your engagement: an audit that satisfies manufacturers and floorplan lenders, financial statements that hold up under scrutiny, and an advisor who can look at a DMS-driven balance sheet and tell you what it actually means — not just what it says.

Together, Carl and Kyle cover every financial dimension of your dealership. The tax strategy and the audit opinion. The planning and the verification. The relationship that goes back decades and the technical depth that goes back to the biggest firms in the country. You don't have to choose between experience and rigor. At Larson, you get both.

Deep Expertise in the Industry Others Treat As a Specialty

Utah's dealer community is our primary focus — not one practice group among many. Our team has spent careers working with new and used car dealers, powersports, marine, RV, and industrial vehicle operations. That depth means we recognize the patterns that matter: when your floorplan costs are creeping up before you notice them, when your F&I income is being recognized incorrectly, when an OEM incentive structure is being misread on your books. You get the judgment that comes from having seen these situations before — not a generalist learning on your time. 

Every Financial Need Under One Roof

Tax preparation and planning, audit and review, QuickBooks and accounting support, wealth management, cybersecurity compliance, fraud detection, financial dashboards, tax provisions, and pro forma modeling — handled by a single team that knows how all of it connects. That matters more than it sounds. When your CPA, your auditor, and your advisor are all looking at the same numbers with the same context, nothing falls through the cracks between firms. You make one call. We already know the full picture. 

We Speak Fluent Dealership

Floorplan interest creeping past your threshold. Pack structures distorting used gross. F&I income hitting the books at the wrong time. Recon costs expensed when they should be capitalized. These aren't obscure edge cases — they're the specific places where dealership accounting gets expensive when your CPA doesn't specialize. Our team translates what your DMS is actually telling you into decisions you can act on: how to price inventory, when to pull the trigger on capital investments, where margins are quietly eroding, and what's coming before it arrives.