by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 26, 2026 | Internal Audit
Will break tradition for this one and specify right at the outset. It’s us, the Internal Auditors exactly! Because no one likes to praise us. In fact, hardly anyone wants to discuss us and our work even, I mean at least not in a positive light. There are people...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 15, 2026 | Governance
Why not? Why re-invent the wheel? Why try something new when we already have tried and tested? Why venture into uncharted territory? Why gamble with someone new when we know someone old? What’s wrong with trusting our old comrades for a new fight? Because even though...
by Sikandar Usmani | Dec 28, 2025 | Internal Audit, Risk Management
Yeah, auditors see risk (red if you may!) We are asked questions about risk. We have been taught to understand it and plan accordingly. We are told to think and talk risk. That’s what we do, but what about the management? Are they supposed to understand risk only to...
by Sikandar Usmani | Dec 4, 2025 | Internal Audit
Of what exactly? Or whose? Who need these? Those who intend to use these? Or those who know how to use these and thus understand their significance? Or those for whom these are just what everyone has? Or those for whom these are good to have? Or those for whom these...
by Sikandar Usmani | Nov 20, 2025 | Internal Audit
Time that tames us to follow through. It runs its course, until it doesn’t. In our quest of predictability, we just fall along with it. We prefer a smooth sail and we’re in luck if we get one. But still, we are not sure of what time has in store for us. It’s just that...
by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 26, 2025 | Internal Audit
Because the field is where one could have a field day. And because it’s hard to fake something out there in the field. The field is where substantiation of evidence is tangible and obvious! The field is the place where all evidence is evidently clear! Recently, I was...
by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 15, 2025 | Governance
Study of Matter certainly. Matter that’s all around us, that surrounds us and that is us. That’s why this matter, matters! And as science has put it over the past millennium, it’s all about matter. And that nothing else matters! The matter, the tangibles available is...
