by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 31, 2025 | Internal Audit
Our failings should matter to us, the internal auditors, more when we have secured a seat at the C-suite table through regulation. Because if our demand is regulation induced, it might fizzle out when the regulation is past its lifecycle. And even if it doesn’t go...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 21, 2025 | GRC, Internal Audit
How many times do we internal auditors get flattered by laurels such as this one? They come in plenty and in many forms if you had been noticing and keeping track of them! The meaning behind is plain and simple, stop being a pain in the a**; the internal auditors not...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 10, 2025 | GRC
Can a birdie take off with its wings clipped? Can you rise high when you’ve nothing to stand on or more appropriately when you’re falling flat? Can you lift off without a platform underneath to stand on? Can a business grow when it is on a losing spree? Without a...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jun 26, 2025 | Internal Audit
Indeed, we would no longer be friends once I report you. We will be friends till I don’t do my thing. We won’t be friends anymore if I am not on your side when push comes to shove. We will remain friends as long as I don’t do what I am paid to do. Our trust in each...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jun 13, 2025 | Internal Audit
Yes, since the start of the current decade, it has become a mania! The hype around cryptocurrency is attributable to blockchain technology. What started as a secure digital mode of transaction is now being used as a medium of exchange and even trading physical assets....
by Sikandar Usmani | Jun 2, 2025 | Internal Audit
Unfortunate but true. Auditing could be blotted. And it matters a lot when general perceptions take the front seat and reasoning and understanding the one at the back or more appropriately thrown out the window. It’s the internal audit that suffers the most from the...
by Sikandar Usmani | May 20, 2025 | GRC
Be it for best practices sake or conforming to a single globally acceptable elevated performance level or benchmark of quality, a minimum desired or a highest possible end result or a burdening requirement for compliance, standards influence our everyday lives in more...
