Accounting is structure.
Advisory is foresight.
Strategic accounting and advisory services for businesses and individuals who expect more from their firm.
Every engagement at Axial begins with the same question: where do you need to be, and what stands between here and there? The answer is never just a number. It is a structure — of obligations, opportunities, and timing. We build that structure with precision, maintain it with discipline, and adapt it as your circumstances evolve. This is accounting practised as advisory.
Axial was founded on a conviction: that accounting, practised with intention, is one of the most consequential advisory disciplines a business can access. Every structure we build, every position we take, every plan we design reflects that conviction. The work is precise because the stakes are real.
Stephen Douglas Thompson
CPA, CA
Managing Partner
From the Firm
The Owner-Manager Compensation Decision: Salary, Dividends, and the Third Option
The annual salary-versus-dividend question is a fixture of Canadian private company planning. But framing it as a binary choice overlooks the structural opportunities that emerge when both are designed together.