About Us

The Experience Your Business Needs, withthe Attention It Deserves

You didn’t build this business to spend your nights guessing at the numbers. Axios gives you executive-level insight that doesn’t stop at reconciling what already happened and helps you plan what’s next.

Founder • Axios Advisory & Bookkeeping

Kirkor Shaghoyan, CPA, CMA

Kirkor Shaghoyan built his career navigating one of the most heavily regulated, zero-tolerance financial landscapes. In an environment where unannounced audits carried severe consequences and tax structures evolved by the day, he learned a permanent lesson: the margin for error is zero. Every transaction had to be bulletproof. Every strategy must be completely defensible.

That experience shaped the philosophy behind Axios Advisory & Bookkeeping.

Kirkor realized that fast-growing businesses were being underserved by traditional, retroactive bookkeeping. It’s never enough for business owners to just know what they spent last month; they need to know how today’s cash flow impacts tomorrow’s hiring decisions, expansion plans, and long-term valuation.

As a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Kirkor brings together technical accounting expertise and operational financial insight. Today, he advises both early-stage startups and established companies across financial services, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, and beyond , helping them gain clarity, anticipate challenges, and make decisions with greater confidence.

Because the best advisors don’t simply report what happened. They help clients understand what happens next and how to be fully prepared for it.

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Client Revenue Managed
$ M+

Supporting businesses with accounting, reporting, forecasting, and strategic guidance.

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Client Retention Rate
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Long-term partnerships built on trust, responsiveness, and measurable results.

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Businesses Supported
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Helping startups and growing companies improve financial visibility and performance.

Professional Credentials

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Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Licensed in California
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Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
Institute of Management Accountants

Member Organizations & Certifications

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Better Business Bureau (BBB) A+ Rating
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QuickBooks ProAdvisor Platinum Tier
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AICPA Member American Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Expert Financial Services, Built for Growth

Bookkeeping & Accounting

  • Monthly close and reconciliation
  • Financial statement preparation
  • AP/AR management
  • Payroll processing support
  • Organized financial recordkeeping
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Specialized Background

  • Cannabis 280E tax exposure and cost accounting
  • Cash-intensive business controls
  • Multi-entity structuring
  • Audit defense and IRS compliance support
  • Regulated industry financial infrastructure
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Advisory & Strategy

  • KPI dashboard development
  • Cash flow management and forecasting
  • Fractional CFO guidance
  • Financial forecasting and scenario analysis
  • Customer and product/service profitability analysis
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Industries Served

  • Financial Services & Insurance
  • Mortgage Brokers
  • Healthcare
  • Hospitality & Restaurants
  • Manufacturing & Logistics
  • Legal & Professional Services
  • Cannabis (licensed operators)
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Insights for Smarter Business Decisions

Stay ahead with expert insights on accounting, tax strategy, financial planning, and business growth.

Firm Overview

Axios Advisory & Bookkeeping

At Axios, we believe your accounting books must play a far more important and involved role beyond recording transactions that already took place. They should help guide what’s next in your financial journey.

Too often, business owners receive reports they don’t understand, advice that arrives too late to make positive changes, tax outcomes that are harsh, unwelcome surprises instead of managed outcomes, and cash flow gaps they don’t see coming until it’s a problem. The net result is a business being managed on instinct rather than insight.

Axios aims to change that.

Our role is to give you financial clarity: maintaining accounting books you can trust, identifying opportunities before they are missed, and giving you an honest view of where your business stands today and where it’s headed tomorrow.

We work closely with a select group of clients because meaningful advice requires context. The better we understand your business, the better decisions we can help you make.

Clean accounting books are the foundation that leads to a strong, positive outcome of confidence in your business and its growth.

Work with a financial partner who turns your numbers into a roadmap, not just a report.