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About the Author
Paul Fisher’s career in business had its
organic beginnings in his lead-guitar-playing,
singing, and fry-cooking days in that hotbed
of a cultural maelstrom that was Western
Wisconsin in the 1970s. He eventually gradu-
ated with a degree in accounting from the
University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 1984
and, inexplicably to some, found employment
as a CPA, eventually migrating to the Twin
Cities in 1989.
Paul spent the next twenty-two years in public accounting practice there.
Along the way, he was bought and sold, merged, and generally reorganized
so many times that he considered having barcode installed on his forehead
to f ...