A practice built on the old-fashioned idea that the signature on the report should mean something.
Pillar CPAs LLP is a boutique Canadian CPA firm headquartered in Toronto, providing assurance, tax and advisory services to organizations and individuals across Ontario.
Why we started Pillar.
The firm was founded on a simple observation: as accounting practices grow, the partners often move away from the work. Engagements get scoped at one table, executed at another, and reviewed at a third — while the client waits for a callback.
Pillar was built deliberately small to keep the partner inside the engagement. Every audit, every return, and every advisory file is led, executed and signed by a partner who has been involved in the work since day one. No black-box reviews. No silent hand-offs.
Our clients are condominium boards who need their auditor to actually understand their reserve fund. Not-for-profit organizations navigating governance, funding, and reporting expectations. Owner-managed businesses looking for practical tax, accounting and reporting support. Individuals with trust or estate complexity. They share one thing in common: they want their CPA on the call when something matters.
Four operating principles.
These aren't slogans on a wall. They're the principles the firm is built around.
Partner-led, partner-signed.
One of our partners scopes the engagement, leads the work, and signs the deliverable. The relationship doesn't get handed off because a deadline is approaching.
Specialization over volume.
We take on engagements where our experience adds real value — particularly in condominium audits, not-for-profit assurance, and owner-managed business advisory.
Disciplined timelines.
Assurance, tax, and advisory engagements run to a planned schedule. We communicate what we need and when, and we hold ourselves to the same standard — keeping engagements organized, proactive, and on schedule.
Plain communication.
Boards and business owners need decisions, not jargon. We explain what the numbers mean and what to do about them — clearly, concisely, in writing, and without unnecessary complexity.
The numbers behind the practice.
A small, deeply-credentialed team — by design.
Led by partner-level practitioners, not org charts.
Managing Partner Donna Liu, CPA, CA, LPA, works alongside Partner Ildiko B. Jurina Cleary, CPA, CA, LPA — together bringing decades of senior audit, assurance, tax, and advisory experience across condominium corporations, not-for-profit organizations, and owner-managed businesses.
At Pillar, both partners lead engagements end-to-end — from first conversation to final report. No black-box reviews. No silent hand-offs.
Member of Canada's professional accounting bodies.
Pillar CPAs LLP is a Limited Liability Partnership of Chartered Professional Accountants licensed to practice public accounting in Ontario.
- CPA OntarioLicensed Public Accountants
- LPA — OntarioAuthorized to issue audit reports
Tell us what you're working through.
Audit on the calendar? Tax issue that's been sitting too long? A board asking better questions than your last firm answered? We'll follow up with a clear next step.