by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 31, 2026 | Internal Audit
The exciting dashboards, the flashy presentations, the infinite tools, the fancy deliverables, the AI mastery, are all good coupled with the ability to invest resources in these at will. Apparently, that is all that matters. Especially when it is said, seeing is...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 20, 2026 | GRC
Yeah, it’s still toiling even with a most promising tool. For both the excited ones and the uninitiated ones! It’s also because it requires learning a new skill that was unheard of before; managing and dealing with the ‘humanized’ tech! Because the humanized tech...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 10, 2026 | GRC, Internal Audit
How about a truth to power metric for evaluating the internal audit’s performance? How about a performance that evaluates the entity’s performance based on this metric? Isn’t the entity’s performance evaluated against its purpose, goals and objectives? Aren’t...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jun 30, 2026 | Internal Audit
Big reveal, like the type(s) I like, later! The title should be concerning enough for the internal auditors and not for the clients. Since clients often confuse nature, methodologies, domains and scope of internal audit engagements as its types. But some clients have...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jun 15, 2026 | Governance
Not just sad, but upsetting. That there was to come a time when Ethics would be in Demand. And not in Supply. That ethics would have regressed enough to be celebrated as a week, or a day, or emphasized through a conference or a seminar or talked about in a networking...
