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You are not hiring an accountant. You are buying a finance function

August 27, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Should I hire an accountant or outsource accounting? The vacancy is usually written before the requirement is. This article sets out what a finance function actually consists of, what an employed hire really costs once it is loaded properly, and why most Caribbean businesses end up with a hybrid rather than a choice between the...

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

August 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

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...

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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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Build vs Buy: The Real Cost of Your Finance Function Compared

June 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Hiring in-house looks like control; outsourcing looks like savings. Here is the true, all-in cost of each — and where the break-even actually sits. For most growing enterprises, buying an outsourced managed finance function costs less and delivers more than building an in-house team — until the business is large or complex enough to justify...

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

June 9, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

If the middle is the engine, what happens to the top? The diamond demands a smaller apex, a flatter hierarchy, and a deliberate redistribution of authority into the core. PART II · THE NEW SHAPE What happens to the top This series has defined the diamond and established its empowered middle as the new engine...

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From Start-Up to Scale-Up: What the Future of Venture Capital Means for the Caribbean

May 12, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary The global venture capital industry is undergoing a structural reset. Venture-backed companies are staying private for longer, exits are slowing, liquidity is becoming harder to achieve, secondary markets are emerging as an important private-market tool, and artificial intelligence is reshaping how companies are built, valued, funded, and scaled. For the Caribbean, the lesson...

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

May 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Valley Green Agriproducts — the name is composite, the events are real — is a Caribbean integrated agribusiness group I have spent considerable time advising. The group operates approximately twelve thousand acres of fresh produce and tree-crop cultivation across two territories, runs three primary processing facilities, employs roughly six hundred and twenty staff at...

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...

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Investor Protection in a Twin Peaks World: From Disclosure to Outcomes

May 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The shift from disclosure to outcomes The most important conceptual shift in international investor protection over the past decade is the shift from disclosure-based to outcomes-based regulation. The shift sounds technical. Its operational implications are substantial. Under disclosure-based regulation, the regulatory framework requires regulated firms to disclose material features of products and services. Risk...

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The Diagnosis Behind the Reform: Why Jamaica Chose Twin Peaks, and What It Must Now Deliver

May 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What actually happened at SSL On 17 January 2023, a Jamaican investor went public with allegations that her investment account at Stocks and Securities Limited — a securities dealer regulated by the Financial Services Commission for over four decades — had been systematically drained over a period of years. Within days, what began as one...

Finance Transformation & Performance Improvement

You are not hiring an accountant. You are buying a finance function

Build vs Buy: The Real Cost of Your Finance Function Compared

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

From Start-Up to Scale-Up: What the Future of Venture Capital Means for the Caribbean

Covenants Were Not Designed for Hurricanes: How to Stress-Test Loan Covenants Before They Stress-Test the Enterprise — and the Heat-Map That Surfaces the Dangerous Ones

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

Investor Protection in a Twin Peaks World: From Disclosure to Outcomes

The Diagnosis Behind the Reform: Why Jamaica Chose Twin Peaks, and What It Must Now Deliver

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September 3, 2026The shoebox is now a camera

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