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...
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...
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 | Nov 20, 2024 | Internal Audit
Indeed, using Data Analytics is a fanciful proposition, given its look and feel-good reporting showcasing patterns, relationships and trends. Indeed, using Data Analytics allows for an improved reliance on the reporting owing to greater credibility. Indeed, using Data...
by Sikandar Usmani | Nov 11, 2024 | Internal Audit
Being at a store witnessing an inventory count, would you ask the client leading the exercise which items to count or ask about their preference of items that should be counted? If your answer to any of these two options is affirmative, you certainly don’t know what...
