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...
by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 17, 2023 | Governance
From a world of self-governance to regulation may be its time we stop and rethink! Is Internal Auditing better off with being by regulation than we were being by choice? Certainly, being by regulation allows greater career opportunities and a spot at the top amongst...
by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 9, 2023 | Governance
YEAH YOU READ THAT RIGHT ….. INTERNAL AUDITING CAN AND DOES FUEL AMBITION! It’s not that only certain careers can offer ambition or that only a financially or otherwise rewarding career can be ambitious. It is very much about our own approach towards our career and...
by Sikandar Usmani | Aug 9, 2023 | Governance
Who rules when both the management and the board are on a payroll? Certainly, management having the advantage of running the day-to-day affairs of the entity, has greater knowledge of the issues impacting the entity, but the Board also has knowledge about the sector...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 26, 2023 | Governance
First a question; will we ever get real about Board’s performance evaluations? To find an answer to it we need to make a current state assessment around it through the criteria given below. Mandatory guidelines on Board’s performance evaluation under the current rules...
