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.When Controls Fail in Public: Lessons for Internal Audit from Recent JSE Restatements and Write-Offs

July 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Markets teach control lessons in two ways: privately, through the quiet findings of a well-functioning assurance system — or publicly, through announcements no board ever wants to draft. Over the past two years, the Jamaica Stock Exchange has delivered several of the second kind: a substantial inventory write-off at a listed company, a material...

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The Board–Internal Audit Relationship: Reporting Lines, Independence, and the Caribbean Reality

July 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Every requirement discussed so far in this series — the strategy, the methodology, the quality programme, the conformance evidence — rests on a single structural question: to whom does internal audit actually answer? Get that question wrong and the rest is decoration. A brilliantly documented function that reports, in substance, to the executives it...

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From Watchdog to Strategist: The Binding Requirement for an Internal Audit Strategy

July 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Ask most Caribbean internal audit functions for their annual audit plan and a document will appear within the hour — a schedule of engagements, a staffing grid, perhaps a risk-ranking matrix behind it. Ask the same functions for their internal audit strategy and the response is usually a pause. That pause is the subject of...

The Conformance Deadline Has Passed: Is Your Internal Audit Function Compliant?

July 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

There is a comfortable belief circulating in boardrooms across the Caribbean, and it deserves to be retired: the belief that the Global Internal Audit Standards are still “bedding in,” that everyone is in the same boat, and that conformance is a project for next year. None of that is true. The Standards took effect on...

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The New Global Internal Audit Standards: What Every Caribbean Board Must Know

July 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most directors will never read the Global Internal Audit Standards. That is understandable — the document runs to five domains, 15 guiding principles, 52 individual standards, and a growing set of Topical Requirements — and it is also a mistake. Because unlike the framework it replaced, the new Standards are not written only for...

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Why Internal Audit Is Now a Governance Function, Not a Back Office

July 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

For decades, internal audit occupied a peculiar position in Caribbean organizations: everyone agreed it was important, and almost no one treated it that way. It sat somewhere down the corridor from finance, reporting to the CFO whose numbers it was supposed to test, staffed thinly, consulted late, and remembered mainly when something had already...

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Captives, Cells and Coverage: How SACs Will Transform Caribbean Insurance Structuring

July 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Every technology returns, eventually, to the problem that created it. Article 3 of this series traced the cell company’s birth to the captive insurance boardrooms of the 1990s, where rent-a-captive platforms were selling a separation they could not legally guarantee. A quarter-century later, the segregated accounts company (SAC) arrives in Jamaica as a general-purpose vehicle...

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The Umbrella Fund Reimagined: SACs and the Future of Collective Investment Schemes in Jamaica

July 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

With the rules of the regime now fully mapped — the ring-fence, the gateway, the governing instrument, the directors’ discipline and the machinery of contained collapse — this series turns to application, and it begins where the impact will likely be felt first: the funds industry. Government commentary on Jamaica’s Segregated Accounts Companies Act, 2024...

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When One Account Fails: Receivership, Solvency and the Genius of Contained Collapse

July 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most corporate structures are designed for success and merely endure failure. The segregated accounts company (SAC) is different: it was designed, from its first principles, for the day something fails. Every rule this series has examined — the linking of Article 4, the gateway of Article 5, the governing instrument of Article 6, the directors’...

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Directors Beware: Personal Liability and the Disclosure Discipline Every SAC Board Must Master

July 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Every statute needs an enforcement engine, and the segregated accounts company (SAC) regime chose its engine deliberately: the personal balance sheet of the director. Where most corporate law sanctions the company and lets individuals shelter behind the veil, the SAC model inverts the design at its most sensitive point — disclosure. A SAC that...

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