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When Advertising, SaaS and Royalties Cross a Border

One foreign software invoice can carry two Jamaican taxes at once: withholding on the payment and General Consumption Tax on the import. Which applies, and at what rate, turns on a classification most finance teams never write down.  Executive summary Caribbean businesses now pay foreign vendors for software as a service (SaaS), cloud hosting, online...

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

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,...

Not Everything on the Balance Sheet Is Security

A company with two billion dollars of assets can discover it has seven hundred million of security. The gap is not an accounting error. It is five questions nobody asked. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Four  ·  The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™   An owner sits down to list what his company owns, because he...

A Seven-Year Loan Against a Thirty-Year Asset

Caribbean enterprises are not failing because they are unprofitable. They are failing because of how they were financed — and the structure that fixes it already exists. Introducing The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™   There is a conversation that takes place in this region more often than anyone would like to admit, and it always...

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

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...

Actuarial science beyond insurance and pensions

  IN BRIEF Actuarial technique is not a service for insurers. It is a method for putting a number on uncertainty — and most organisations are already carrying uncertainty they have priced by assumption rather than by measurement. Three worked cases follow: an extended warranty, a receivables book and an inventory decision. None involves an...

How to Expand Across Caribbean Markets

The Caribbean is not one market. It is a chain of small ones — and regional expansion fails when it is treated as the same business at a new address The Problem, Lived “Danielle” makes natural skincare products in Kingston — a brand strong enough that a Trinidadian distributor sought her out at a regional...

AI Assurance: The New Frontier for Boards, Audit Committees, and Risk Leaders

Why responsible AI adoption requires independent confidence, not just innovation ambition   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Artificial intelligence has moved from experimentation into core business operations — and once AI influences decisions, processes transactions, or touches sensitive data, it becomes part of the organization’s control environment. The question for boards and audit committees is no longer “should...

Outsource the Work, Keep the Control: How Smart CEOs Delegate Finance

  Outsourcing your finance function does not mean handing over the keys. Here is how smart CEOs delegate the work while keeping full control of the numbers, the cash, and the decisions. Every CEO who has considered outsourcing the finance function has felt the same hesitation. Finance is not just another back-office task; it is...

How to Transition Your Finance Function Without Disrupting Operations

  The fear of disruption keeps many enterprises tied to a finance setup they have already outgrown. Here is how a well-run transition actually works — and how to keep operations running while you change.   For most leaders, the decision to change how their finance function is run is not the hard part. The...

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