1. From Strategy on Paper to Activity in Practice In the first two articles of this Dawgen Decodes series, we introduced Dawgen Global’s SMARTEST™ Financial Statement Interpretation Framework and explored: S – Strategy & Business Model M – Measurement & IFRS Policies Strategy tells us what the organisation is trying to achieve. Measurement tells us...
1. The Numbers Are Not Neutral On the surface, financial statements look objective. Revenue is a number. Profit is a number. Assets and liabilities are numbers. But behind every number lies a series of choices: When do we recognise revenue? How do we measure fair value? Over what period do we depreciate an asset?...
Setting the Scene: Financial Statements Need Translators, Not Just Technicians Every year, organisations publish thick volumes of financial statements prepared in full compliance with IFRS. Yet, despite the technical rigour behind these documents, many decision-makers still ask the same questions: What does this really mean for our business? Are we genuinely creating value – or...
Artificial Intelligence has moved from a back-office experiment to a board-level issue. AI now influences: How banks approve credit and detect fraud How insurers price risk and pay claims How hospitals triage patients and support diagnosis How governments allocate benefits and provide services How organisations of all kinds communicate with customers using generative AI When...
Few sectors are embracing Artificial Intelligence as aggressively—or as visibly—as financial services. Banks, insurers, asset managers, fintechs, and payment providers are using AI to: Assess creditworthiness and price risk Detect fraud and financial crime Automate underwriting and claims Personalise customer journeys Optimise trading, liquidity, and capital Regulators have taken notice. The U.S. Treasury has highlighted...
For many organisations, the day an AI system goes live feels like the finish line: months of design, data work, model building, and testing finally culminate in deployment. In reality, go-live is not the finish line—it is the starting point of the most important phase in the AI lifecycle: real-world operation. Once an AI model...
Running a business across borders can be exciting and profitable — but when tax compliance is handled casually, it can also be very expensive. A recent decision of the United States Tax Court involving a married couple and their Malaysian engineering business is a powerful reminder of how quickly business expense deductions can be denied...
Real estate and construction are central to economic development in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC). Office towers, logistics hubs, retail centres, industrial parks, residential communities, hotels, mixed-use developments and public infrastructure all sit on one fundamental question: “What is this property or development really worth — today and under...
Corporate tax is no longer just “25% on the slide in the board pack.” For capital-intensive and growing businesses in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and LAC, the real tax cost of investment is driven by how quickly you can depreciate assets, how inventories are valued, whether you benefit from allowances for corporate equity (ACE), and...
The OECD’s Corporate Tax Statistics 2025 is more than a technical publication. For businesses in Jamaica, the wider Caribbean and Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC), it’s effectively a global scoreboard: showing where our region sits on corporate tax rates, withholding taxes, treaty networks and BEPS implementation – and how that shapes investment and tax...
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