Business View Magazine | July 2020

49 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2020 Unsteady times call for the most steady HR & Payroll partner. In over 70 years, we’ve never wavered in helping our clients adapt to changing regulations. ADP, theADP logo,andAlwaysDesigning forPeopleare trademarksofADP,LLC. Learn More ABDO, E I CK & MEYERS LLP founder Joe Abdo was able to establish the firm thanks to a $15,000 loan from his hardworking, Lebanese-immigrant mother. Today, Abdo, Eick & Meyers is ranked as a “Top 25 Accounting Firm” by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Under Managing Partner Steve McDonald’s leadership, the company delivers creative, one- of-a-kind business bookkeeping solutions to help individuals, businesses, and organizations solve their challenges. According to McDonald, “Our founder, Joe Abdo, started the business in 1963 with just a single client and built the practice over the next several years, until his son, Jay, and Gerry Eick came into the firm. They grew the Mankato location and then Jay opened an office in Owatonna, Minnesota, just a small town of 25,000 in the early ‘80s. In the next major stage, Jay opened an office in Bloomington, Minnesota and that evolved into what we are today – a 100 person shop in Edina and a 70 person office in Mankato.”