At 7:42 Tuesday morning in Kampala, an internal auditor opened a routine supplier-payment report and noticed something that looked too neat to be accidental. Eleven invoices, processed over four months, ranged between UGX 9.6 million and UGX 9.9 million. The …
Why is your newest production line still missing targets while overtime, wastage, and customer complaints keep rising? During a leadership workshop at a manufacturing company, I ask the team to explain why a newly installed line is producing below capacity. …
A profitable bank with an unproductive culture is like a luxury bus descending a hill with weak brakes. The passengers admire the speed. The driver celebrates progress. Nobody asks whether the engine is creating momentum or gravity is doing the …
I started my career at Nile Bank, before its acquisition by Barclays Bank, which was acquired by Absa. Nile Bank was moving from manual to digital banking. Files were becoming screens, ledgers were becoming systems and decisions that took days …
The last two weeks of July 2026 have been remarkable as I successfully delivered projects for two leading companies, one in Nigeria and another in Ethiopia. My career began in internal audit, working under Aguma Mpairwe, one of the most …
The loan was approved for UGX 2.8 billion. The borrower was a trading company that claimed to supply construction materials across Uganda. Its file was impressive. The application form was complete. The financial statements carried an accountant’s stamp. The collateral …
How investigators trace wallets, agents, SIM swaps, mule accounts and cash-out patterns A phone call at 9 a.m. from a managing director who had not called for the past two years is always interesting. “Mustapha, how are you? Indeed, you …
The issue was not that money disappeared because money rarely disappears. It is moved by a person, through a system, under a control that looked alive but was already dead. In this case, a trusted accounts assistant in a Jinja-based …
It is Friday evening, when most people had already mentally left office and the few still online were pretending to finish what Monday would punish them for ignoring, a finance officer in a medium-sized organisation received a short instruction on …
At 7:42 a.m. on a Tuesday in Kampala, the finance manager of a mid-sized logistics company received a WhatsApp message from the managing director. “Release the supplier balance before 10 a.m. We shall regularise the documents later.” The instruction looked …
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