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Pay for the Laptop You Use, Not the One You Bought

October 11, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A finance director’s guide to device as a service: cash flow, currency, accounting, tax and the questions to ask before you sign. Rethinking how Caribbean organisations equip their people — a three-part series from Dawgen Global. The capital request nobody enjoys Every three or four years, the same request reaches the finance committee. The...

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Taxed Like Europe? What the World’s Tax Rankings Really Say About the Caribbean

October 5, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The finding Jamaica collects tax equal to 25.6% of its GDP — more, as a share of its economy, than the United States (19.5%), Germany (23.0%), Japan (20.2%) or Switzerland (20.0%). Barbados, at 27.8%, collects more than Greece and sits on the global top-20 list beside the Nordic welfare states. That is the Caribbean story...

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A sales pipeline is a cash flow forecast nobody reads.

September 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The only forward-looking information most businesses own is sitting in the sales pipeline, while the cash forecast is built from the receivables ledger — a record of decisions already taken. The future is in one room and the forecast is in another. IN SHORT A pipeline answers how much. A cash forecast needs to know...

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Interest-Only Is Not Repayment-Never

September 8, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The first objection to long-dated interest-only capital is that nobody ever repays it. The answer is a reserve, a glidepath and an election made two years early — and the arithmetic is less comfortable than the concept. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Seven · The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ Every conversation about long-dated...

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Everything That Left the Business

September 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A company can cut its dividend by three quarters and still be extracting more than the year before. One number catches it. The covenants in most instruments do not. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Two · The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ A board meets to approve the accounts. The finance director reports that in a...

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A Seven-Year Loan Against a Thirty-Year Asset

September 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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...

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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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How to Plan Succession Before You Need It

July 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A business that cannot outlive its founder was never an asset. It was a salary with staff — and succession planning is the work that turns it into something that can be inherited, sold, or led into its second generation. The Problem, Lived “Winston” is sixty-four, and for thirty years his name has been the...

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The Quiet Risk: Why Reserve Adequacy Decides an Insurer’s Future

June 22, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Reserves are the largest number on most insurers’ balance sheets and the least understood by their boards. Getting them wrong is rarely loud — until, suddenly, it is catastrophic. On the balance sheet of almost any insurer, the single largest figure is also the one the board understands least. It is the provision for claims...

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Where BEDROCK™ Works: Sector Applications for Caribbean Asset-Anchored Bonds

June 14, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The appreciating assets that can anchor a Caribbean bond — across tourism, energy, logistics, agriculture, and beyond This series has built an instrument, mapped its demand, and addressed the market that must carry it. One question remains on the supply side, and it is the most concrete of all: where, across the Caribbean economy,...

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Caribbean Business Strategy

Taxed Like Europe? What the World’s Tax Rankings Really Say About the Caribbean

A sales pipeline is a cash flow forecast nobody reads.

Interest-Only Is Not Repayment-Never

A Seven-Year Loan Against a Thirty-Year Asset

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

How to Plan Succession Before You Need It

Where BEDROCK™ Works: Sector Applications for Caribbean Asset-Anchored Bonds

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