by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 31, 2025 | Internal Audit
Yes, inbreeding is about preserving characteristics perceived to be invaluable and keeping those undesirables at bay. But guess what? Defects commonly occur leading to certain devious traits coming to the fore including undesirable ones too that were previously...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 20, 2025 | Internal Audit
It’s music to my ears. Something I have heard more than having the time to understand it or see it being practiced after being so profusely professed. But it wasn’t just me who never got to see it in practice, I’m sure the ones comforting themselves by their own...
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 | Jan 1, 2025 | Risk Management
Imagination precedes reality, Goals precede objectives, Objectives precede action plans, Ideation precedes criticism and a dream, or a wish precedes fulfillment or otherwise! But what about experience? Isn’t it the best teacher? A colleague from yesteryears once...
by Sikandar Usmani | Dec 20, 2024 | Internal Audit
Not just every matter around us is kept moving or kept at rest by inertia as physics confirms us. Inertia helps make some of us grow too! By matter here, I definitely intend to refer to the human form of matter and more precisely the auditors form of human! And it...
