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IFRS 20 and EBITDA: Why Lenders, Investors and Boards Must Pay Attention

June 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary IFRS 20, Regulatory Assets and Regulatory Liabilities, will not merely change technical accounting for rate-regulated entities. It may also change how performance is measured, interpreted, financed, and communicated. For many regulated companies, IFRS 20 may affect reported revenue, operating profit, EBITDA, funds from operations, working capital, leverage ratios, interest cover, return measures, and...

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IFRS 20 Explained: What Regulated Companies Need to Know Before 2029

May 31, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary The IASB has issued IFRS 20, Regulatory Assets and Regulatory Liabilities, introducing a comprehensive financial reporting framework for entities subject to rate regulation. Effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2029, with earlier application permitted, IFRS 20 supersedes IFRS 14 and is a significant development for utilities, energy, transportation,...

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Secondary Markets and Private Company Liquidity: A Future Opportunity for the Caribbean

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Private companies across the Caribbean often represent substantial economic value, but that value is frequently locked inside illiquid ownership structures. Founders, early investors, family shareholders, employees, and private capital providers may hold interests in growing businesses for many years without a clear pathway to realize part of that value. Globally, this liquidity challenge...

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When Global Risk Turns: Stress-Testing the Caribbean Balance Sheet

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 4 of this series, I argued that the critical-minerals window is the most consequential capital-allocation opportunity opening for our region. This week, the series turns to the dynamic that determines whether Caribbean firms can hold and compound the value they capture from such opportunities — or whether they lose it back, painfully and...

The Single-Thread Borrower: Capital Structure Risk in Caribbean Enterprises

May 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

There is a Caribbean distribution business that I will call Meridian — a composite drawn from the actual files of multiple advisory engagements over the last decade, with all identifying details changed but every operational fact preserved. Meridian was started in 1989 by a husband-and-wife team. By 2024, it employed 187 people across two...

Three Markets, Three Lessons: What South Africa, the Netherlands and New Zealand Teach the Caribbean

May 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why these three jurisdictions matter The two case studies that have already been examined in this series — Australia and the United Kingdom — are the headline references in international Twin Peaks literature. Both produced extensive operating evidence. Both have generated substantial post-implementation reform programmes. Both are well-documented in IMF Financial Sector Assessment Programs,...

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Fraud, Going Concern, and the Board’s Expanding Risk Mandate

May 1, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why classic assurance questions are returning to the center of board oversight in a more volatile and more judgment-heavy economy. Fraud and going concern are once again shaping the assurance conversation because business volatility, financing pressure, and management judgment have increased. Boards need sharper challenge, stronger scenario thinking, and better alignment between strategy, reporting, and...

Audit and Assurance in 2026: The Leadership Agenda

April 30, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why boards, CEOs, CFOs, and audit committees are treating assurance as a strategic trust issue rather than a technical back-office function. 2026 is emerging as a hinge year for audit and assurance. Sustainability assurance is moving into operational reality, regulators remain dissatisfied with core audit quality, and firms are being pushed to prove that technology...

Boards, Fiduciaries, and the Tokenized Balance Sheet: Governance and Board Oversight in the Caribbean

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the fourth article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework. Articles 1 through 3 established the inflection-point argument, mapped the foreign regulatory regimes, and set out the architecture of DAGAF™ itself. This article opens the pillar deep-dives, treating Pillar 1 — Governance...

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Tokenization in the Caribbean: Why Boards, Regulators, and Enterprises Must Engage Now

April 28, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Editor’s Note This is the first article in a twelve-part Dawgen Global series introducing DAGAF™ — the Digital Asset Governance & Assurance Framework — the Caribbean’s first integrated framework for the governance, assurance, tax, and risk management of tokenized real-world assets. Each article in the series will engage one dimension of the tokenization question facing...

IFRS 20 and EBITDA: Why Lenders, Investors and Boards Must Pay Attention

IFRS 20 Explained: What Regulated Companies Need to Know Before 2029

When Global Risk Turns: Stress-Testing the Caribbean Balance Sheet

The Single-Thread Borrower: Capital Structure Risk in Caribbean Enterprises

Three Markets, Three Lessons: What South Africa, the Netherlands and New Zealand Teach the Caribbean

Fraud, Going Concern, and the Board’s Expanding Risk Mandate

Audit and Assurance in 2026: The Leadership Agenda

Tokenization in the Caribbean: Why Boards, Regulators, and Enterprises Must Engage Now

June 9, 2026The Broken Rung: If We Automate the Base, Where Do Tomorrow’s Experts Come From?

June 9, 2026A Narrower Apex, a Deeper Core: Rethinking Span, Hierarchy and Decision Rights

June 9, 2026The Premium on Judgment: Why the Middle Becomes the Engine of Value

June 8, 2026Enter the Diamond: What a Mid-Heavy Organization Actually Looks Like

June 8, 2026The Vanishing Base: When AI and Automation Erode the Foundation of Professional Firms

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