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 | Jan 11, 2025 | GRC
It’s not always the organization’s threshold for risk acceptance that gives an idea of its strength, resilience and possible growth trajectory. There’s an even important measure when these are to be assessed; the threshold for accepting mediocrity! In fact, this...
by Sikandar Usmani | Dec 10, 2024 | GRC, Internal Audit
If you understand and appreciate the difference, it’s still imperative you read this. Not because I am going to identify the correct difference between both of these (I continue to learn!), instead it is to allow us all an opportunity to introspect and assess why it...
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 | 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...
