Rachel L. Cooper – CPA, Partner
Rachel Cooper, has more than 25 years’ experience in individual and small business income tax compliance. She specializes in individual and small to medium-sized business taxation including consulting and planning, as well as payroll and sales tax reporting and compliance.
Rachel has lived in the Valley of the Sun since she moved to Scottsdale in 1976 and currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Arizona State University, College of Business in 1993 with a B. S. degree in Accounting. She is a licensed CPA in Arizona, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Arizona Society of CPAs.
Active in community affairs, Rachel is Board Treasurer for the Scottsdale Railroad and Mechanical Society, a non-profit organization which promotes the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is also a Patroness and Board Treasurer with the Moon Valley Chapter of the National Charity League (NCL), a non-profit organization focusing on Mothers and Daughters serving communities together. With her daughter, she focuses on three pillars central to NCL – Community, Leadership and Cultural activities. She has been married for 20 years and has two teenage children.
Fun Facts:
- If you could rid the world of one thing, what would it be?
Addiction to cell phone use, I am guilty of it too. - What is the funniest thing you did as a kid that your parents still talk about to this day?
When I was 4 or 5 years old, I caught a huge Northern Pike off the end of a pier on Lake Pokegama, Northern Wisconsin. My parents often recall this hilarious story about how I was fishing with a cane pole when I got a bite and we immediately knew it was something big. My Mom was frantically yelling to people to find a net to get it out of the water and I was in disbelief with a look of “OH MY GOSH” on my face when the fish came out of the water. To this day I smile at the picture I have holding this enormous fish on a stringer which (at age 4 or 5) measured from about my belly to the ground. It was amazing the fish’s teeth did not cut through the line, the cane pole didn’t snap and I didn’t fall off the dock into the water. - What is one thing very few people know about you?
My favorite super hero when I was young was Wonder Woman. - If you could instantly become an expert in something, what would it be?
Public Speaking