Coffey & Rader CPAs

John Rader was recommended to me three years ago and he has done my taxes for the past three years. He is thorough, knowledgeable and very friendly. My taxes are not simple but he makes it a stress-​free experience.

John Rader has been my husband’s accountant for over 15 years, and now I am glad to have him handling my business and personal filings as well. He is very thorough, quick to respond and knowledgeable on what is best for us and our financial health. Also, he is really pleasant to chat with during what could be a stressful time! I highly recommend Mr. Rader!

About a decade ago I was referred to John Rader by people in my line of work, a small arts-​based company. His fee is not outrageously expensive, and he dedicates the time you need even if you have a hundred questions. Since then he has been a reliable, friendly, valuable contributor to the small business my husband and I run, and it has grown over the years – with his help! He’s never failed to deliver clear, correct advice and walk us through the process with patience and good humor.
He isn’t just an impersonal number-​cruncher. He has helped us with strategy and business development as it pertains to the tax laws, and he clearly has your best interests at heart. He catches things we miss, he steers us when we aren’t sure about a particular part of the tax code. We do not dread tax time. It’s always a pleasure to catch up with him and see how he’s doing: without being too glib or gabby, he manages to see how our family is doing, and we ask about his family, and then we get to business and the work gets done right. We leave confident, every year, that we’ve taken care of the dreaded «tax time» pretty painlessly. It’s like having a midwife you trust and feels like a family member.
We sometimes end up getting our appointment in the thick of tax season, when everyone is working long, hard hours there – but without fail he is genuinely pleased to see us, and Natalie in the front office is pleasant, professional, and prompt. I have recommended him to several friends, all of whom have stuck with him over the years and thanked me for steering them right.

Steve isn’t a competent CPA, at least if you need him for business financials vs. simple personal taxes. He’s also miserably unresponsive and can’t even figure out how to reply all to an email – he’s just out of touch with the business world. (Maybe his thing is personal taxes with older people that don’t use email or expect calls to be returned in a timely manner…) It’s as simple as: he didn’t (and has refused to) provide us with Excel documents of the financials – he gave us PDFs, completely useless.
That said we paid him $ 3k for a project he failed to perform completely and satisfactorily. Learn from our mistake — we now have to find another CPA and pay him or her more to finish the job.
He said he had done the work before and yet he didn’t do the job we asked him for and it was basic – there was an outline provided by the relevant government agency that he failed to follow/​satisfy. He simply wasn’t up for the task and was so off the mark it makes his representations re: doing similar work before appear fraudulent.
When we pointed out the deficiencies, at first he agreed to correct them and acted like he was working on it. Despite knowing that time was of the essence, he didn’t respond to any of our inquires re: the status of the project for the better part of a week – and then finally when he responded, he insisted that we were asking for new work that would require more money and he said that while he had already performed the work (bullsh*t) he wouldn’t give it to us because he didn’t like how demanding my business partner had become. –I’m only being a little hyperbolic when I say that he did more work on the email asserting his falsified version of events than he did on the financials, clearly preparing a rebuttal for the Better Business Bureau/​Board of Accountancy complaint/​suit we told him we intend to file.
Keep looking.
He’s unprofessional/​uncommunicative.
I don’t trust him.
He’s a cheat and a bum.

John Rader has been managing my personal and corporate finances for the past decade.
John is one of my favorite people on earth. Not only is he very well versed in tax law/​accounting, but he is also a very sweet, caring soul making him an absolute pleasure to do business with! John has also gone on to manage the finances for my ENTIRE FAMILY because of the superior job he has done for me in this area of my life.
The ground floor office for Coffey & Rader is easily accessible from Sahara with plenty of parking right out front. The office itself is a very happy, comfortable environment. Natalie (Office Manager), is a long time employee of the firm who is an absolute pleasure as well!
I WOULDN’T TRUST MY FINANCIAL AFFAIRS IN ANYONE ELSE’S HANDS!!! PERIOD.

john rader did my business and personal stuff. he knows what hes doing and is very knowledgeable.
we always talk about life and family while during the appointments.
i like him.
i trust him.
good guy