Acknowledgements - About the Author

• Author: Nicholas L. Bourdeau
• Pages: 7-7

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To Vickie

My editor in chief, my best friend, and my wife.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to my editor Susan Ballance for her tireless (and often futile) attempts to teach me the English

language and to Jon Nitschke, and Bruce Gottwig of Montana State University College of Technology for,

well, technology assistance. I am indebted to my dear friend Sherrie Smith, who took this book off my desk

to the printed form. Finally, I am grateful to the many child support investigators who made me understand

there was a need for such a manual and convinced me that I could write it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nick Bourdeau has been practicing in the area of forensic accounting since 1986. He has appeared in court

over a hundred and fifty times on issues associated with the valuation of marital estates, businesses, child sup-

port, maintenance, pensions, fraud and damages. He has been a contract instructor for the State of Montana

Child Support Enforcement Division on child support related issues and consulted with the Division’s Guideline

Revision Oversight Committee. He conducts regular Continuing Legal Education seminars for attorneys and

paralegals. He serves as a mediator in the state of Montana, and is full member of the Montana Mediation

Association as well as the Treasurer of that organization. In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant,

Bourdeau is Accredited in Business Valuations by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and

is a Certified Fraud Examiner under the provisions of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

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