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...
by Sikandar Usmani | May 12, 2025 | Governance, Internal Audit
Why else do you think there was a need to protect the interests of shareholders and now a multiverse of stakeholders, through a barrage of regulations, stipulations, codes, compliance and reporting requirements? The corporate world was never expected to be fully...
by Sikandar Usmani | Apr 30, 2025 | Governance
Excellence, Euphoria of Success, Exactitude and Endless Energy literally have an ‘E’ in common. But what this ‘E’ actually means stretches far beyond the literal stance. However, you don’t have to indulge yourself into imagination to identify it. It’s as simple as...
by Sikandar Usmani | Apr 20, 2025 | Internal Audit
Internal Auditors are meant to be people of principles and not people of circumstances. But what to do if circumstances force them to compromise on principles? Should they cave in to the need of the hour taking an impaired view of the principles? Should they concede...
by Sikandar Usmani | Apr 10, 2025 | Internal Audit
All audit findings are meant to be based on reporting exceptions, so why assigning differing significance or priorities to these should be so important a matter that it requires adoption of a formal mechanism? Is it because entities need to be able to make choices for...
by Sikandar Usmani | Apr 1, 2025 | Internal Audit
Doesn’t it sound divisive? Sector specific auditors? Aren’t the auditors required to be auditors only? Good at what they do, audit? No, it doesn’t? And why not? Well let’s not be opinionated from the outset. Though I would insist, why the insistence? Divisive it...
