Dr Dawkins Brown

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Invoices that send themselves, and chase themselves.

September 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Automating invoicing and receivables collection Days sales outstanding is discussed as a measure of customer behaviour. For most businesses it is mostly a measure of their own delays. This article sets out the four intervals you control, what each day of them is worth in cash, and why a gentle unfailing schedule protects relationships...

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The shoebox is now a camera

September 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Digital receipt capture and document management Bank statements are a conversion problem. Documents are a custody problem — the invoice exists in a van, a pocket or somebody’s inbox, so the ledger does not know the obligation is there. This article sets out what capture actually does, and why permanent attachment matters more than the...

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If your bank feed is not connected, you are paying someone to retype a statement

September 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Bank feeds and automated reconciliation — how they work, and what they do not do Reconciliation is treated as an accounting task. It is data entry with a checking step appended. This article sets out the three ways a feed can be connected, what happens to a transaction once it arrives, and an honest account...

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Do you need a ledger, or an operating system?

September 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Cloud accounting or ERP — how the tier is actually decided Almost every business asks this as a software question, and buys the wrong answer. This article sets out the two constraints that make a system feel too small, the six questions that decide the tier, and an honest account of what a connected application...

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What a finance function is supposed to produce, and how often.

September 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What should a finance department deliver monthly? Finance is the only function in most businesses with no defined output. This article sets out the full schedule — daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual — with what each item is for, and the reader test that removes everything on the list which nobody actually uses. IN...

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Distance stopped being a cost in accounting.

August 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Virtual accounting services and remote bookkeeping in the Caribbean Proximity in accounting was physics, not preference — four physical constraints that have all since dissolved. This article sets out what severed them, what the habit of paying for distance still costs a regional business, and the short honest list of work that genuinely still has...

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The bookkeeper who leaves takes the system with her.

August 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What happens when your only bookkeeper resigns — and what a handover cannot IN SHORT What leaves with a departing bookkeeper is not the bookkeeping. The ledger stays. What leaves is the undocumented layer — why an account is coded the way it is, which supplier invoices are always queried, what the three-year-old reconciling...

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You are not hiring an accountant. You are buying a finance function

August 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Should I hire an accountant or outsource accounting? The vacancy is usually written before the requirement is. This article sets out what a finance function actually consists of, what an employed hire really costs once it is loaded properly, and why most Caribbean businesses end up with a hybrid rather than a choice between the...

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Your books are ready in March. Your decisions were needed in January

August 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

How long should it take to close monthly accounts? Nine working days is achievable. Thirty to seventy-five is what most Caribbean businesses actually run. This article sets out where the difference comes from, what the delay costs, and how a digitally delivered finance function closes the gap. IN SHORT A monthly close should take nine...

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The Borderless Finance Function™: Digital Accounting for Caribbean Businesses

August 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The finance function most Caribbean businesses have was never designed — it accumulated. This is the argument for buying one instead: what the two platform tiers do, how the tier is chosen, what the division performs and what you keep, and what the arrangement produces every month. IN SHORT A borderless finance function is a...

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