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,...
Why Caribbean organisations that operate across islands should stop buying laptops one shipment at a time — and start buying a managed outcome. Rethinking how Caribbean organisations equip their people — a three-part series from Dawgen Global. A new hire, a sealed box and a customs warehouse A regional distributor hires a sales manager for...
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...
What happens when your only bookkeeper resigns — and what a handover cannot IN SHORT What leaves with a departing bookkeeper is not the bookkeeping. The ledger stays. What leaves is the undocumented layer — why an account is coded the way it is, which supplier invoices are always queried, what the three-year-old reconciling...
A standing guide for owner-managed businesses, their boards and their advisers The Dawgen Value Architecture™ — six pillars of private company value. This guide addresses Pillar 2. The Dawgen Value Architecture™ Most owner-managed businesses in the Caribbean are worth less than the people who built them believe. That is not a comment on the quality...
Every statute needs an enforcement engine, and the segregated accounts company (SAC) regime chose its engine deliberately: the personal balance sheet of the director. Where most corporate law sanctions the company and lets individuals shelter behind the veil, the SAC model inverts the design at its most sensitive point — disclosure. A SAC that...
Every seasoned Jamaican transaction lawyer has drafted the clause. “The Lender’s recourse shall be limited to the assets of Project A and shall not extend to any other assets of the Borrower.” It is careful, it is customary, and — between the parties who signed it — it works. The uncomfortable truth the market...
The Problem, Lived “Alicia” runs a catering and events company in St. John’s, Antigua, and her marketing history reads like a drawer of lottery tickets. A boosted post whenever bookings look thin — fifty dollars here, a hundred there, aimed at everyone. A radio spot last Christmas whose results she cannot name. A website...
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...
You will never win a bidding war against the banks, the multinationals and the visa. Stop fighting on the salary line — and start winning on the deal. The Problem, Lived “Omar” runs a fourteen-person IT services firm in Kingston, and by any fair measure he is one of the best developers of young talent...
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