By Trent Watrous, CPA, CVA, CFE WSW Dental CPAs In the mid-1990s, I became the CFO of a family-owned service and manufacturing entity that had been in existence for approximately 30 years. The family held real estate and operating entities that focused on the servicing of signs and construction of billboards across the southeastern United States. The billboard division had recently acquired the patents for several cutting-edge components, which are now used throughout the bil