KAFT Chartered Professional Accountants

What KAFT Chartered Professional Accountants does

KAFT Chartered Professional Accountants (KAFT CPA) is a privately held professional accounting corporation founded in 2015 in Alberta, Canada, by two Chartered Professional Accountants — Femi Ajayi (licensed since 2000) and Taiwo Kasali (licensed since 2009) — with a combined 25 years of professional accounting experience. The firm operates from three physical offices in Cold Lake, High Prairie, and Slave Lake, serving small business owners, medical practices, oil and gas industry workers, and individual clients across all Canadian provinces through both in-person and remote engagement. The firm positions itself as a modern alternative to traditional accounting practices, emphasizing a collaborative, proactive tax-planning approach under the brand tagline 'The Success People,' and offers multilingual service in Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic, and English.

The firm's service portfolio spans 15+ distinct offerings organized as a unified professional practice, including accounting, bookkeeping, assurance and audit preparation, corporate and personal taxation, business advisory, financial advisory, payroll, business incorporation, annual return filing, corporate registry services, and virtual staffing. Underlying technology consists of cloud-based professional accounting software products; the firm does not disclose proprietary technical infrastructure beyond the cloud-based delivery model and a modern collaborative workflow. Service delivery combines in-person consultations at physical offices with remote digital channels, supported by a 'Success Tips' content blog and a resource center providing external links to the Canada Revenue Agency, Business Development Bank of Canada, and financial calculators.

KAFT CPA generates revenue through professional service fees on a quote-based, engagement-driven model, with billing cadence varying by service type — one-time for engagements such as incorporation, recurring for ongoing bookkeeping and annual tax preparation. The go-to-market motion is sales-led and direct-to-consumer, anchored on a free 30-minute 'Accounting Success Check' consultation as the primary customer acquisition tool, supplemented by content marketing, local SEO, and email remarketing. Multilingual service capability and three physical offices in underserved rural Alberta communities are the firm's principal distribution assets. No public pricing, revenue figures, funding rounds, or institutional investors are disclosed.

Name

KAFT Chartered Professional Accountants

Legal name

KAFT CPA

Website

https://kaftcpa.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

KAFT CPA is an Alberta accounting firm founded in 2015 with offices in Cold Lake, High Prairie, and Slave Lake. It provides cloud-based accounting, tax, bookkeeping, and advisory services to small businesses, medical practices, and oil and gas clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Cold Lake

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Accounting Services: Full-service accounting firm providing comprehensive professional services including accounting, bookkeeping, assurance/audit preparation, taxation, business advisory, financial advisory, payroll, personal tax, annual return services, corporate registry services, business incorporation, and virtual staffing. Revenue is generated through professional service fees for these engagements, which may be one-time (e.g., business incorporation) or recurring (e.g., annual tax preparation, ongoing bookkeeping).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

KAFT CPA is a Chartered Professional Accounting firm providing accounting, bookkeeping, assurance, taxation, business advisory, payroll, personal tax, annual return, corporate registry, and business incorporation services. The firm serves small businesses, medical practices, corporations, service industries, oil and gas workers, and individual taxpayers from three offices in Alberta (Cold Lake, High Prairie, Slave Lake) and delivers cloud-based services to clients across all Canadian provinces.

Product overview

KAFT CPA operates as a full-service accounting firm offering a comprehensive suite of professional services delivered through experienced Chartered Professional Accountants. The firm provides cloud-based accounting services across all provinces in Canada, with a portfolio of 15+ distinct service offerings organized as a unified professional practice. Core services include Accounting Services, Bookkeeping Services, Assurance Services, Taxation Services, Business Advisory Services, Financial Advisory, Payroll Services, Personal Tax Services, Audit Services, Business Consulting, Annual Return Services, Corporate Registry Services, Business Incorporation Services, and Virtual Staffing. The Accounting Success Check serves as an entry-point consultation service. The firm specializes in serving small businesses, medical practices, and oil and gas industry clients in Alberta communities including Cold Lake, Slave Lake, and High Prairie.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Accounting Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Financial statements completed within 1 month vs. 6-month wait times previously experienced by clients

Named customers2 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• KPMG Canada: KPMG is a Big Four firm with significant Canadian operations serving SMBs through its enterprise and private-company services. While focused on larger clients, KPMG's SMB and private-company practice overlaps with KAFT's mid-market tax and advisory offerings in Alberta.
• BDO Canada: BDO is a top-five Canadian accounting firm serving SMBs, mid-market companies, and public-sector clients across all provinces. It competes for the same small-business and owner-managed accounting engagements that KAFT pursues, but with materially broader geographic reach and service lines.
• Crowe Global (Canada): Crowe is a top-ten global accounting network with Canadian member firms serving mid-market and SMB clients in tax, assurance, and advisory. It competes for the same privately-held business engagements KAFT targets, with broader geographic and capability coverage.
• PwC Canada: PwC is a Big Four firm with Canadian operations providing tax, assurance, and advisory services to private companies, including those in energy and healthcare verticals that KAFT also serves. It represents the upper-bound competitive threat for clients scaling out of KAFT's typical engagement size.
• Grant Thornton Canada: Grant Thornton is a mid-tier international accounting network with a strong Canadian presence focused on privately-held businesses and SMB advisory. It overlaps directly with KAFT on tax, bookkeeping, and advisory services for owner-managed businesses in regional markets.
• Deloitte Canada: Deloitte is a Big Four firm with a Canadian private-company and SMB practice serving oil-and-gas, healthcare, and small-business clients in Alberta. It is a broad incumbent competitor for advisory and tax work that KAFT currently delivers to mid-market regional clients.

Direct peers

• DFK Canada: DFK is an international association of independent accounting firms with multiple Canadian member firms serving SMBs and owner-managed businesses across provinces. Like KAFT, member firms are typically mid-sized and regionally concentrated, making DFK member firms direct structural peers.
• Baker Tilly Canada: Baker Tilly is a mid-tier Canadian accounting association with multiple regional member firms serving SMBs and mid-market clients across Canada, including rural and secondary markets. It is one of the most structurally similar competitors to KAFT in terms of firm size, regional concentration, and SMB client mix.
• MNP LLP: MNP is one of Canada's largest mid-market accounting firms with deep penetration in rural Prairie provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) and a strong oil-and-gas and agricultural client base. It is the closest scaled peer to KAFT in terms of full-service SMB focus and Western Canadian regional concentration.

Regional players

• Richter (or comparable regional Alberta firm): Richter and similar Alberta-based full-service accounting firms serve SMB and mid-market clients in Western Canada with comparable tax, bookkeeping, and advisory offerings. These regional players are the most direct same-geography competitors for KAFT's target client base in northern Alberta.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/kaftcpa
• Xx.com/kaftcpa
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bafcon-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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