Axios CPA & Advisory Group is a Miami-based public accounting firm grounded in three core principles: talent, technology, and experience. The firm is led by Rene Velazquez, CPA, with a team of accounting professionals educated at South Florida’s top universities. Continuous improvement, technical precision, and direct CPA attention define every engagement — validated by 10+ consecutive years of AICPA Peer Review with a Pass rating.
Rene Velazquez is a Florida-licensed Certified Public Accountant with more than twenty-six years of public accounting practice in Miami. His work spans the full compliance lifecycle — from individual and corporate tax returns through financial statement audits, reviews, and compilations, into forensic engagements, international disclosure programs, and federal and state representation.
Today Rene leads a Miami firm of six accounting and administrative professionals — keeping every engagement principal-directed while delivering work product comparable to mid-size regional firms. He personally scopes, reviews, and signs the work that leaves the office.
That background includes the kinds of engagements regional firms typically staff with three or four people: multi-state corporate filings, partnership returns with special allocations, Streamlined Foreign Offshore submissions, Forms 5471 and 3520, examinations defended through the IRS Independent Office of Appeals, and litigation-support work for plaintiff and defense counsel.
Mid-size to large regional firms produce excellent work. The trade-off is the engagement structure: a partner signs the proposal, a senior manages the file, and a staff associate prepares the return. The CPA who quoted the engagement is rarely the one in the working papers.
Axios is structured the other way. The principal CPA scopes the engagement, directs the technical work, reviews the file, and signs the return — supported by a team for execution. For a straightforward 1040 that may be more than the matter requires. For an offshore disclosure, a forensic engagement, or an IRS Appeals protest, it is the right structure.
Every engagement begins with a complimentary 30-minute consultation — by phone or in office — to confirm scope and quote a fee. From there, work proceeds on a defined timeline with direct CPA contact throughout. Power of attorney is filed where representation is involved; you do not speak to revenue agents, we do.
Axios runs the same enterprise-grade software the regional firms run — across tax, audit, bookkeeping, and document management. The difference is what happens next. Most firms buy a tool, train once, and move on. We continuously evaluate new platforms for the firm and for our clients’ internal systems, because technology should compound, not stagnate.
Our professional staff is recruited from top Florida accounting programs — primarily Florida International University and the University of Central Florida — both consistently ranked among the strongest accounting programs in the state and a strong feeder to the Big Four and to regional firms in South Florida. We hire there for a reason: technical depth, CPA-exam preparation, and a work ethic that holds up in busy season.
We invest in the tools the profession has standardized on, and we deploy them the way a small, deliberate team can — without the legacy drag of a large firm. The objective is the same on every engagement: work smarter, not harder, so the time we bill is time spent on judgment, not data entry.
Stated up front, because they shape what Axios will and will not take on.
Rene personally reviews and signs every engagement. The technical lead and the client relationship sit with the same practitioner, supported by the team.
Client names are not listed on the website. Referrals are made by introduction, not by directory.
Axios declines engagements outside the firm's focus. Large multi-entity consolidations and SEC reporting are referred out to firms equipped for that scope.
Tell us about the matter — return, audit, notice, or engagement — and we'll respond within one business day.
