Cornelie Crous

Multifaceted Senior Lecturer with Accounting degree and proven disciplinary expertise. Taught rigorous graduate-level courses at large university and earned high approval ratings from students during past year. Strong subject matter knowledge and excellent communications skills enabled achievement of optimum outcomes. Resourceful Senior Lecturer with impeccable teaching credentials and numerous scholarly articles and symposia presentations. Dynamic Lecturer with 17 years of successful Auditing, Corporate Governance and Ethics experience. Known for interesting lectures with helpful supporting materials and detail-oriented classroom management. Dedicated to individual student success and comprehensive understanding. Modern Lecturer with extensive knowledge of integrating technology into classrooms for increased student interest. Expert in non-financial reporting with advanced training in microsoft office, Tableu, Microsoft Access, Power BI, and public speaking. Proven history of providing students with memorable and effective lectures.

Redesign and implement zero based budgeting, along with scenario planning, into the budgeting process of the University of the Free State budget process. Successfully designed templates to be for quotation purposes on executive education program's to ensure the sustainability of the executive education division. Actively monitoring the budgets of the Business School.




Awarded the Top Senior Top Achiever, Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences in 2011.




Received the deans medal for the best Master's dissertation in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences in 2016.




Aligned the PhD program at the Business School to the University of the Free State's policies and procedures and oversaw the development and implementation of the Business School Standard Operating procedures for the PhD progtram.

• Member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA) since 2002
• Member of the ESG Exchange TEchnical committee since 2022
• Member of the SAICA Initial Test of Competence Examination Committee since2023
• Member of the SAICA Initial Assessment of Competence (IAC) working group
• Member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns

Research publications

Journals

Crous C. (2021). Sustainability Reporting: a case study of impression management in Rustenburg. In Marais et al. Mining and Community in the South African Platinum Belt – A decade after Marikana, Nova Science Publishers: New York.

Crous C. (2021). Sustainability reporting by Collieries. In Marais et al. Coal and Energy in South Africa, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.

Crous C., Battisti E., and Leonidou, E. (2021) Non-financial reporting and company financial performance: a systematic literature review and integrated framework. Euromed Journal of Business, Article in Press.

Crous C. And Van Wyk M. (2021) Balancing quantitative and qualitative value creation reporting. South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, Vol 24 (2): Article in Press.

Marx A., Crous C., and Moolman, A. (2021) Evaluating the relationship between Integrated Reporting and Financial Indicators in JSE-Listed Companies. Journal of New Generation Sciences. Article in Press.

Crous C., Owen J.R., Marais M., Khanyile S. and Kemp D. (2021) Public disclosure of mine closures by listed South African mining companies. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Vol 28 (3): 1032-1042

Crous C. and Goodchild E. (2021). Predictors of academic success in postgraduate auditing in the Chartered Accountancy programme at a South African university. South African Journal of Higher Education, Vol 35(6) (article in Press)

Crous C. (2018) What happened to Steinhoff’s Governance? (Accounting Weekly) March 1: Available from: https://accountingweekly.com/?s=What+happened+to+Steinhoff%E2%80%99s+govern ance%3F

Crous C. (2017) King IV: Friend or Foe to the Non-Profit Sector in South Africa. (Accounting Weekly) April 19: Available from: https://accountingweekly.com/king-iv- friend-foe-non-profit-sector-south-africa/

Crous C. (2017) The 1-2-3 of Audit Committees Part 1: Overview of the recommendations September: 44-45: Available from: http://www.accountancysa.org.za/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/issues/2017/ASA- September-2017.pdf

Crous C. (2017) King IV for SME’s. (Accounting Weekly) September 12: Available from: https://accountingweekly.com/king-iv-smes/

Crous C. (2017) The 1-2-3 of Audit Committees Part 2: Responsibilities of the Audit Committee October: 53-54: Available from: http://www.accountancysa.org.za/wordpress/october-2017/

Crous C. (2016) Boards: Accountability vs. responsibility. (Accounting Weekly) August 17: Available from: https://accountingweekly.com/boards-accountability-vs- responsibility/

Crous C. (2015) Private companies and loans to directors and shareholders. (Accounting Weekly) November 4: Available from: http://accountingweekly.com/private-companies-and-loans-to- directors-and-shareholders/

Crous C. (2008). Audit and Independent Reviews of private companies: survey results

(The Professional Accountant) Maart/April: 8-12.

Crous C. (2015) Pre-emptive rights of shareholders and it use in private companies. (Accounting Weekly) May 6: Available from: http://accountingweekly.com/?s=pre- emptive+rights+of+shareholders

Crous C. (2015) Explaining fiduciary duties. (Accounting Weekly) October 29: Available from: http://accountingweekly.com/explaining-fiduciary-duties/

Crous C. (2009) Audit or Independent Review: Does it add value or is it just compliance?

(The Professional Accountant) September/October :4-7.

Crous C. (2008). Audit of Private Companies: lessons to be learned from the UK (The Professional Accountant) September/October :9-11.