by Sikandar Usmani | Nov 30, 2024 | GRC, Internal Audit
What could be a pack of lies in this day and age? Surprisingly, something that makes these times what they’re known for. And surprisingly it has the most robust capacity to influence us, even if most of it is a lie! And that’s not it, its ability to influence means a...
by Sikandar Usmani | Nov 20, 2024 | Internal Audit
Indeed, using Data Analytics is a fanciful proposition, given its look and feel-good reporting showcasing patterns, relationships and trends. Indeed, using Data Analytics allows for an improved reliance on the reporting owing to greater credibility. Indeed, using Data...
by Sikandar Usmani | Nov 11, 2024 | Internal Audit
Being at a store witnessing an inventory count, would you ask the client leading the exercise which items to count or ask about their preference of items that should be counted? If your answer to any of these two options is affirmative, you certainly don’t know what...
by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 31, 2024 | Risk Management
What do international standards, several best practices and a multitude of frameworks over risk management have in common? Certainly, their aim and objectives. But a little less obvious is their approach. They intend for us to be systematic, disciplined, meticulous,...
by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 21, 2024 | Governance
While scrolling down LinkedIn posts, there was this interesting update that caught my attention for all the wrong reasons. While I misread it initially to mean something more offensive about the relationship between a leader and an organization, its correct read...
by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 10, 2024 | GRC
Ever wondered, what a high performing Internal Audit (IA) team would look like, or more appropriately what are its characteristics? Not sure if there could be a high performing IA team? Or if there’s a performance by IA through which it could be gauged? Well yes,...
by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 1, 2024 | GRC
Could audits be void of judgments and assumptions? To answer that let’s ask another question; could entity’s design of Governance, Risk Management and Control Systems be void of their judgements, estimations and assumptions? Risk, being the effect of uncertainty on...
