Set-ADUser based on .csv file - empty attributes issue

Hi, after a few months without working with PowerShell my knowledge is slowly fading away but fortunately every time this happened before, I was able to rebuild my knowledge again and now it is the same story. However I want to optimize my simple
code which populates three AD user object attributes: manager, officephone and fax with values stored in .csv file. Everything works well, but my code looks not so good in my opinion. Is there any more elegant solution?
$AddressBook = Import-CSV -Path D:\AddressBookFinal.csv
foreach($Employee in $AddressBook)
     if([string]::IsNullOrEmpty($Employee.ManagerUserName)) {
              Set-ADUser -Identity $Employee.EmployeeUserName -Manager $null
    } else {
              Set-ADUser -Identity $Employee.EmployeeUserName -Manager $Employee.ManagerUserName
    <#similar code here for checking value of OfficePhone and Fax attributes and populating AD attributes depending on if attribute value in .csv file is empty or not#>

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