by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 2, 2025 | Internal Control
Imbecility at best? Or is there another word one would prefer for sheer stupidity? Because it’s like having a procedure in place that could guide people on how to use their mental faculties when needed! The issue is so concerning that the procedures can’t just tell...
by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 21, 2025 | Governance
Yeah! Nothing wrong being alone when you’re in the right! That’s power posturing for sure and who doesn’t like it? But mostly it’s self-serving platitude. Because who doesn’t want to claim, be seen and believe to be in the right? Especially when coming from a position...
by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 11, 2025 | GRC
Kudos on earning a world full of chaos! What exactly was our endeavor? Making our lives easier, better, improving its quality? By becoming inorganic from organic? By ceding space to artificial from natural? By promoting what’s built in laboratories on support against...
by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 3, 2025 | Internal Audit
Yeah, so have you seen, heard and felt yourself from the perspective of an interviewer? Well, introspection could be deep. But this one is not introspection and its certainly isn’t deep! Because even the interviewer has no idea why this question is thrown at the...
by Sikandar Usmani | Aug 20, 2025 | Internal Audit
It’s IN THE MONEY undoubtedly…. a buffoonography is the biography of buffoons. Since they can’t write for themselves a piece of idiotobiography (autobiography of idiots), owing to the sky high pedestal they see themselves on and because they believe that they don’t...
by Sikandar Usmani | Aug 10, 2025 | Internal Audit
And why exactly should I care, one would ask? After all, I am on that comfy side of the table that’s reserved for asking questions only. Because that’s what internal auditors do. Raising queries, sounding alarms, pointing fingers, doing the critique and more of the...
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...
