Dr Dawkins Brown

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Profit Is an Opinion. EBITA Is a Discipline: Why Caribbean CEOs Must Read Ratios, Not Just Results

September 25, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why Caribbean CEOs Must Read Ratios, Not Just Results IN BRIEF Net profit is the number most Caribbean chief executives manage to, and it is the number lenders, investors and buyers trust least. They judge a business on a handful of ratios built on two measures of operating earnings: EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax,...

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What actually happens on day one.

September 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Owners expect a transition to be a technology event. It is not. The first day is about custody, authority and cut-off — and the handovers that fail almost never fail at the ledger. IN SHORT Day one establishes three things and nothing else matters until they exist: who may approve what, from what date the...

Digital Finance Digital Tax Transformation Digital Transformation digital transformation & virtual solutions Digital-First CFO Services Multi-Entity & Group Reporting The Borderless Finance Function™

Every territory has its own tax. The group should still read as one set of numbers.

September 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Local compliance is genuinely local and cannot be harmonised away. What can be harmonised is everything underneath it — the chart, the definitions, the cut-off and the eliminations. Most groups have it the other way round. IN SHORT A multi-territory group has to file locally under local rules, in local currency, to local deadlines. That...

Caribbean Business Strategy Caribbean Financial Reform Cash Flow & Liquidity Cash Flow & Working Capital Cash Flow Management Cash Flow Optimization CEO & CFO Insights CEO involvement in ERP implementation success Financial Planning & Analysis Sales & Revenue Management The Borderless Finance Function™The Caribbean Resilience Playbook

A sales pipeline is a cash flow forecast nobody reads.

September 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The only forward-looking information most businesses own is sitting in the sales pipeline, while the cash forecast is built from the receivables ledger — a record of decisions already taken. The future is in one room and the forecast is in another. IN SHORT A pipeline answers how much. A cash forecast needs to know...

Accounting & Advisory Business Performance Cost Management Finance & CFO Advisory Finance Automation Finance Transformation Finance Transformation & Performance Improvement Payroll & Workforce Management The Borderless Finance Function™Working Capital & Cash Flow

Attendance, approvals and the cost of a working hour.

September 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most businesses know what they pay for an hour. Far fewer know what an hour costs them, and fewer still can say which job consumed it. That gap is where quoted margin quietly becomes actual loss. IN SHORT The cost of an hour is not the wage rate. It is the wage plus the employer’s...

Accounting and Financial Reporting accounting BPO Accounting Services BPO Employment & Workforce Human Resources & Workforce Advisory The Borderless Finance Function™Tokenization Strategy

Payroll is where accounting meets employment law.

September 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Payroll is the only monthly process that is at once a tax filing, the performance of a contract and a statutory record. Treating it as data entry is how a business acquires liabilities it does not know it has. IN SHORT Payroll sits on top of two bodies of law that do not refer to...

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One login for finance, people and sales is not a convenience. It is a control.

September 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

When the ledger, the payroll and the pipeline are three systems, nobody can say who approved what without asking a person. Integration is not about saving keystrokes. It is about making authority a setting instead of a habit. IN SHORT An integrated business platform holds finance, people and operations in one data set under one...

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The Pilot Succeeded. The Business Did Not Notice.

September 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why artificial intelligence activity keeps rising while measurable value stays flat — and how to close the gap Emerging Risk & Transformation Services • 2026 Executive Summary Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is not the same thing as AI value, and the distance between them is now measurable. The most widely cited figure comes from the...

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You Cannot Govern What You Do Not Know Exists: The TRUST360™ AI Governance Framework

September 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

AI governance from inventory to assurance — and why the policy is the easy part Emerging Risk & Transformation Services • 2026 Executive Summary Most organizations that have written an artificial intelligence (AI) policy in the past two years cannot produce a list of the AI systems operating inside their business. The policy exists. The...

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Nobody Signed a Contract for This: Bringing AI Spending Under Financial Control

September 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why artificial intelligence is the first major technology most organizations buy by the unit — and what finance has to do about it Emerging Risk & Transformation Services • 2026 Executive Summary Most organizations can say what they spend on their accounting system. Far fewer can say what they spend on artificial intelligence (AI), and...

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Profit Is an Opinion. EBITA Is a Discipline: Why Caribbean CEOs Must Read Ratios, Not Just Results

A sales pipeline is a cash flow forecast nobody reads.

Attendance, approvals and the cost of a working hour.

Payroll is where accounting meets employment law.

The Pilot Succeeded. The Business Did Not Notice.

You Cannot Govern What You Do Not Know Exists: The TRUST360™ AI Governance Framework

Nobody Signed a Contract for This: Bringing AI Spending Under Financial Control

September 25, 2026Profit Is an Opinion. EBITA Is a Discipline: Why Caribbean CEOs Must Read Ratios, Not Just Results

September 20, 2026What actually happens on day one.

September 20, 2026Every territory has its own tax. The group should still read as one set of numbers.

September 20, 2026A sales pipeline is a cash flow forecast nobody reads.

September 20, 2026Attendance, approvals and the cost of a working hour.

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