by Sikandar Usmani | Apr 1, 2025 | Internal Audit
Doesn’t it sound divisive? Sector specific auditors? Aren’t the auditors required to be auditors only? Good at what they do, audit? No, it doesn’t? And why not? Well let’s not be opinionated from the outset. Though I would insist, why the insistence? Divisive it...
by Sikandar Usmani | Mar 20, 2025 | Internal Audit
No, it isn’t that purpose of the audits, internal or external, that these invaluable interventions are prized for or sought after. It’s the purpose, that inept and incompetent audit clients cannot grasp. The two might be related but are definitely distinct. They’re...
by Sikandar Usmani | Mar 10, 2025 | Internal Audit
And dear audit clients, please don’t pretend to be what you aren’t. Embracing what you aren’t is the first step in improving yourself. And it doesn’t matter if it’s your auditors who are trying to convince you to be a better version of yourself or simply telling...
by Sikandar Usmani | Mar 1, 2025 | Internal Audit
In this day and age, can you imagine a business process that cannot be tech enabled or at least tech-facilitated? If you cannot, you are friends with technology, and this would be an amusing read for you. But if you can, you are where the blame lies! True that, mostly...
by Sikandar Usmani | Feb 10, 2025 | Internal Audit
If you also believe in the so-called bigger picture concept as being mythical, welcome to the club. But to me it’s not just that because it’s practical manifestation, seems it’s meant to deceive. And if you think there’s nothing wrong in fancying about it, let me...
