by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 31, 2026 | Internal Audit
The exciting dashboards, the flashy presentations, the infinite tools, the fancy deliverables, the AI mastery, are all good coupled with the ability to invest resources in these at will. Apparently, that is all that matters. Especially when it is said, seeing is...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jul 10, 2026 | GRC, Internal Audit
How about a truth to power metric for evaluating the internal audit’s performance? How about a performance that evaluates the entity’s performance based on this metric? Isn’t the entity’s performance evaluated against its purpose, goals and objectives? Aren’t...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jun 30, 2026 | Internal Audit
Big reveal, like the type(s) I like, later! The title should be concerning enough for the internal auditors and not for the clients. Since clients often confuse nature, methodologies, domains and scope of internal audit engagements as its types. But some clients have...
by Sikandar Usmani | May 23, 2026 | Internal Audit
Isn’t it right? Isn’t it that diversity of talent and skillset and divergence of opinions are recipes for success and fuel growth? I get it, the ‘same page’ principle is what people like to tout and promote but that shouldn’t be and can’t be before ideation, before...
by Sikandar Usmani | May 10, 2026 | Internal Audit
A bizarre question indeed. In a world full of disruptions that come uninvited, that’s the quirkiest query one could make or think of! And even more pertinent for the risk averse than the risk takers. Since there are always people who turn threats into opportunities...
by Sikandar Usmani | Apr 27, 2026 | Internal Audit
It shouldn’t matter even if it’s the last hour. If you like doing what you do, if you’re good at what you do, it shouldn’t matter at all even if it’s almost time for you to pack up and get going. You continue doing what you like, you continue doing what you’re good...
