Godfrey W
Erasmus, Bronkhorstspruit
Godfrey holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and did a research project titled”Contribution of Financial Controls to Business Survival.” He is currently studying for Doctor of Philosophy- Management Studies degree majoring in entrepreneurship with Aldersgate University and is working on a thesis titled “Strategic Ingredients to thriving Entrepreneurship ”
An accountant by profession, Godfrey is CIS and CIMA trained and is a registered public accountant. He has vast experience in human capital management, financial reporting, financial management, management accounting, business processes re-engineering, company secretarial practices, designing internal controls, strategic planning and strategy implementation. He also boasts of good working knowledge of South African company and tax laws.
Godfrey worked with donor partners from United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands in implementing relief and development projects in Zimbabwe, Malawi Swaziland and Kenya. He also chaired various workplace committees. In 1999 he partnered with systems experts from PWC to implement Baan IV Finance and Logistics after having gone through initial training in the United Kingdom. He was a part-time lecturer and tutor with Trust Academy, Rapid Results College, ICC and CACC for more that fifteen years.
He has nurtured the potential to grow people and organizations, posits that excellence, a product of focus, should be a trait and advocates for good corporate governance and superior ethical standards. Godfrey firmly believes in learning organisations where expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured and collective aspiration is set free. He is eager to take up new challenges and thrives under pressurised environments.
Godfrey’s vision is to make positive global contribution by articulating and stimulating the importance and significance of financial literacy, business best practices and sustainability. In pursuit of his dream, Godfrey founded GBC, a business solutions think-tank, authored one business administrative strategy and two business accounting text books and is a regular contributor to the business columns of the Herald.
Goddie, as he is affectionately known, is married to Anesu-Joanna and was blessed with one daughter and two sons.