Ayesha decided. She would finish the course, pass the exam, and then decide. She spent nights at the hospital, Irshad propped on the armrest, highlighting sections on internal controls, audit sampling, and the difference between error and fraud.

Their professor, Mr. Tariq, was a retired auditor with eyes that missed nothing. “Irshad Sahib’s book is not for memorizing,” he announced. “It’s for seeing .”

Today, Ayesha is an internal audit manager at a bank. Her copy of Auditing by Muhammad Irshad sits on her desk, worn, tabbed, coffee-stained. She still reads the “Professional Ethics” chapter every six months.

Ayesha Khan had never wanted to be an auditor. She dreamed of mergers, IPOs, and the roar of the trading floor. But her final year of commerce at Government College University, Faisalabad, demanded she take “Advanced Auditing & Assurance.” The prescribed text: Auditing by Muhammad Irshad.