by Sikandar Usmani | Oct 21, 2024 | Governance
While scrolling down LinkedIn posts, there was this interesting update that caught my attention for all the wrong reasons. While I misread it initially to mean something more offensive about the relationship between a leader and an organization, its correct read...
by Sikandar Usmani | Aug 30, 2024 | Governance
In a perfect world, it shouldn’t matter. Management concurrence shouldn’t be needed, and it should not be for the internal auditors to procure it. How about external auditors? Do they need it or even vie for it? Certainly not, because management understands that it’s...
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 6, 2024 | Governance
Internal Auditing affords us, the internal audit practitioners, a unique and, may I add, a coveted spot on the meeting table. This spot is akin to a seat in the spectators’ gallery or amongst the audience watching a match or a show. This allows us to use our...
by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 17, 2023 | Governance
From a world of self-governance to regulation may be its time we stop and rethink! Is Internal Auditing better off with being by regulation than we were being by choice? Certainly, being by regulation allows greater career opportunities and a spot at the top amongst...
by Sikandar Usmani | Sep 9, 2023 | Governance
YEAH YOU READ THAT RIGHT ….. INTERNAL AUDITING CAN AND DOES FUEL AMBITION! It’s not that only certain careers can offer ambition or that only a financially or otherwise rewarding career can be ambitious. It is very much about our own approach towards our career and...
