Start Where the Cost Is Countable Why the back office is the fastest route from AI to EBIT — and how to choose the first three workflows to redesign When a Caribbean board first approves money for AI, it is usually spent where AI is most visible: a customer chatbot, a marketing content tool, a...
Article 6 of THE NEW BOTTOM LINE™, Dawgen Global’s series on IFRS 18 across the Caribbean. IFRS 18 does not change your profit. It may still change your covenant ratios, your bonus pool and your management fee. IFRS 18 is often described as “just presentation”. Revenue, expenses and profit for the year are the same...
Article 5 of THE NEW BOTTOM LINE™, Dawgen Global’s series on IFRS 18 across the Caribbean. For the region’s banks, insurers and investment companies, one judgement shapes the entire income statement. For most companies, IFRS 18’s categories are intuitive. Interest earned on a deposit is investing. Interest paid on a loan is financing. Everything else...
Article 4 of THE NEW BOTTOM LINE™, Dawgen Global’s series on IFRS 18 across the Caribbean. The numbers boards talk about most are moving inside the audited financial statements. Ask a Caribbean chief executive how the business performed last year and the answer will rarely be “profit for the year”. It will be adjusted EBITDA,...
Article 3 of THE NEW BOTTOM LINE™, Dawgen Global’s series on IFRS 18 across the Caribbean. For listed companies, the market’s first look at IFRS 18 will not be an annual report. It will be a quarterly filing. Most discussion of IFRS 18 focuses on the first annual financial statements. For a December year-end...
Article 2 of THE NEW BOTTOM LINE™, Dawgen Global’s series on IFRS 18 across the Caribbean. The cheapest time to prepare your IFRS 18 comparatives is before the 2026 books close. Most finance teams think of IFRS 18 as a 2027 project. For a company with a 31 December year-end, that is a year too...
The new presentation standard takes effect on 1 January 2027. For most Caribbean reporters, the work should already be under way. On 1 January 2027, the way Caribbean companies present their profit changes. IFRS 18, Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements, replaces IAS 1 for annual periods beginning on or after that date. It...
Build Your Legal Career with Dawgen Global Most legal careers grow along a single track. At Dawgen Global, yours can grow across several. Dawgen Global is an independent, integrated multidisciplinary professional services firm headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica, and operating in more than 15 Caribbean territories. We are expanding our Legal & Compliance Division and want...
A 2 or 3 per cent tax on revenue sounds modest until it is set against margin. Digital services taxes are expensive for thin-margin businesses, politically costly for the countries that levy them, and a poor fit for small Caribbean economies. Executive summary A digital services tax (DST) is a tax on the gross revenue...
Consumption tax on digital services follows the customer, not the supplier. For Caribbean firms selling across the islands, that principle turns on three practical questions: is the customer a business, where are they, and who collects? Executive summary Every Caribbean consumption tax regime for digital services rests on one idea: value added tax (VAT) or...
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