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QuickBooks Live vs a Full-Service Finance Partner: What You Actually Get

June 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Intuit’s in-house service is convenient and affordable — but its scope is narrower than many leaders realise. Here is how to compare on value, not just price. QuickBooks Live is Intuit’s own bookkeeping service, priced in 2026 from about US$50 per month for expert-assisted help to US$300–$700 per month for full-service bookkeeping. It is a...

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Are You Bond-Ready? The BEDROCK™ Bond Readiness Index

June 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The series finale — a structured way to measure whether your enterprise is ready to bring an asset-anchored bond Eleven articles ago, this series began with a frustration familiar to every Caribbean enterprise of substance: the gap between the capital such a business deserves and the capital the market actually offers it. We named the...

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Oversight: Governance Machinery for Investor Protection | BEDROCK™ Framework

June 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Pillar O of the BEDROCK™ Framework: trustees, regulatory alignment, and board accountability — the machinery that enforces every promise the instrument makes By the close of Article 5, the BEDROCK™ instrument was substantially built: an appreciating asset, soundly engineered, fully disclosed, and stress-proofed against the Caribbean’s storms, currency shocks, and cycles. A prudent investor...

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The Caribbean Capital Structure Problem: From Bank Debt to BEDROCK™

June 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why the region’s growth constraint is not a shortage of viable enterprises — but a shortage of appropriate capital structure Walk into any boardroom from Kingston to Port of Spain to Bridgetown and you will hear a version of the same conversation. The business is sound. The market opportunity is real. The asset — the...

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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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Inside the Numbers: How CSM Run-off, Risk Adjustment, and Onerous-Contract Testing Are Quietly Reshaping Earnings

May 21, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Three IFRS 17 mechanics that most Caribbean boards do not yet fully understand — and which determine reported profits more than any underwriting decision Three IFRS 17 mechanics — the Contractual Service Margin run-off pattern, the risk adjustment calibration, and the onerous contract test — together drive the majority of reported insurance earnings under...

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Data Protection in Operational Practice: What the Data Protection Act 2020 Actually Requires

May 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Jamaican Data Protection Act 2020 has been in force since the end of its transition period. Every Caribbean firm reading this article is either subject to it directly, subject to a comparable regional act, or doing business with parties that are. This article does not summarise the legislation — there are competent legal summaries...

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Critical Minerals, Critical Choices: What Caribbean Boards Must Decide Now

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 3 of this series, I argued that the Caribbean firms that will compound earnings over the next decade are the ones rebuilding their workforce around AI fluency. This week, the series turns from the internal to the external — from talent and productivity to the most important structural opportunity now opening in front...

Tokenized Resort Real Estate: The Caribbean Use Case That Tests the Framework

May 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In the seven previous articles of this series, we have constructed the Digital Asset Governance and Assurance Framework — DAGAF™ — pillar by pillar. We have established the case for a Caribbean-anchored framework, mapped the foreign and regional regulatory regimes Caribbean enterprises must operate within, set out the architecture of the framework as a whole,...

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Measuring Jamaica Against IOSCO: A Principles-Based Diagnostic of the Jamaican Capital Market

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why the IOSCO Principles matter The International Organization of Securities Commissions is the global standard-setter for securities regulation. Its membership comprises the securities regulators of more than 130 jurisdictions, collectively responsible for over 95 per cent of the world’s securities markets. The IOSCO Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation, first published in 1998 and...

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