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 | 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 | Aug 30, 2024 | Governance
In a perfect world, it shouldn’t matter. Management concurrence shouldn’t be needed, and it should not be for the internal auditors to procure it. How about external auditors? Do they need it or even vie for it? Certainly not, because management understands that it’s...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 22, 2024 | Governance
There’s a significant difference between diplomacy and lying; not that diplomacy is necessarily a good thing but certainly it can’t be equated with lying, something managements of many entities never understand and always glorify their plain lying as diplomacy....
by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 6, 2024 | Governance
Internal Auditing affords us, the internal audit practitioners, a unique and, may I add, a coveted spot on the meeting table. This spot is akin to a seat in the spectators’ gallery or amongst the audience watching a match or a show. This allows us to use our...
