by Sikandar Usmani | Apr 12, 2024 | GRC
How many career-oriented internal auditors have you come across yet or expect to see in future? Chances are far too less or more appropriately hardly any! One could always find people working as operational managers (finance, engineering) having held internal audit...
by Sikandar Usmani | Mar 31, 2024 | GRC
Those who have been frequenting or have visited my blogspace https://www.career-auditor.com/blog/ would know that I am an Internal Audit fanatic, since I’m sure no other investment entrepreneurs make in themselves (their businesses) is as worthwhile and value adding...
by Sikandar Usmani | Mar 22, 2024 | GRC
Indeed, the development of an internal audit strategy is the first and foremost aspect of setting up an internal audit function. But how do we go about doing that? It’s not just about the prerequisite, which it surely is, in fact it’s a precursor. Before you all begin...
by Sikandar Usmani | Mar 9, 2024 | Risk Management
A dedicated resource for Risk Management? If you believe the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Integrated Framework, the ISO 31000 Risk Management or any other guideline you followed for getting acquainted with the concept, requires an investment in a dedicated...
by Sikandar Usmani | Mar 1, 2024 | GRC
Mind you, it’s not a trait if it comes down to a value that’s professed and publicized but never practiced. Something that’s written everywhere across the premises of an organization to give the impression that it means everything to it, means nothing if it doesn’t...
by Sikandar Usmani | Feb 21, 2024 | GRC
Something upfront first, Audit is not threatened by the invasion of Artificial Intelligence (AI), simply because audit is an act of intellect, practiced by people possessing intelligence. As a matter of fact, save for our existence, AI isn’t a threat! I won’t however...
by Sikandar Usmani | Feb 10, 2024 | GRC
Transitioning from the International Standards for Professional Practice of Internal Auditors (ISPPIA) to the newly issued Global Internal Audit Standards (GIAS), it’s time we rethink the needs fulfilled or vacuum filled by these standards, understand the best...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 31, 2024 | GRC
In this era where artificial intellect is gaining widespread traction in every field not just because it has changed the way in which work is done or productivity is enhanced, but because it has challenged the limits of our understanding and resulted in objectives...
by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 22, 2024 | Governance
There’s a significant difference between diplomacy and lying; not that diplomacy is necessarily a good thing but certainly it can’t be equated with lying, something managements of many entities never understand and always glorify their plain lying as diplomacy....
by Sikandar Usmani | Jan 15, 2024 | GRC
It’s not that accountants can’t give good advice. It’s also not that the accountants won’t share competent advice. It’s very much about what they can give owing to the work they do. Recently in a friends get together; I came across an interesting comment; privately...
