INTHEBLACK April 2025 - Magazine - Page 15
Beau Turner FCPA used
a solid grounding in public
practice as a springboard
into a commercial career.
Turner came in at "ground zero"
at Callaway Golf, bringing
a focus on margins and
rebuilding the business.
He explains the importance
of developing a new mindset
in a new business.
LEADERS AND INNOVATORS
Stroke
of genius
Beau Turner FCPA was brought into Callaway Golf to help create
history for the company. Here is how he got his game on.
As told to Megan Breen
Photography Jarrod Barnes
EARLY IN HIS CAREER, BEAU TURNER
took the leap from public practice into the
competitive commerce world. He says it was
like flipping the playbook. He was building
on his solid accounting foundation, while
opening new horizons for growth
and innovation.
“After six and a half years in public practice,
I was suddenly in an entrepreneurial business
with guys who were going faster than the back
end could keep up with,” Turner says.
“I literally got handed a folder of documents
and was asked to just work it out.”
The challenge gave him a taste for working
with the whole business to develop strategies
and processes to guide and grow the business.
“I would say, ‘Who’s running the month
end? Who’s preparing the information for
the stock exchange? What’s the reporting
rhythm for the end of the financial year?’
The answer was always, ‘We’ve got to work
that out’. It was like nothing existed.
I suppose that’s nerve-racking, particularly
coming from public practice where it is
well structured, but it was a challenge that
I absolutely loved,” he says.
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