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...
Count only the artificial intelligence (AI) that is live, the laws that are in force and the results that are published, and the Caribbean scores 32 out of 100. The region is at the foundation stage of AI value and governance. That is the headline of the inaugural Caribbean AI Value & Governance Index (CAVGI),...
The first-fortnight plan for when money runs short When cash runs short, the instinct is to do everything at once. Chase every customer. Cut costs across the board. Promise every supplier something by Friday. By the end of the week the owner is exhausted, the promises have collided with each other, and the bank account...
Why the device fleet is the fastest place for Caribbean businesses to make sustainability pay Two budget lines that never meet In most Caribbean organisations, sustainability and IT sit in different meetings. The sustainability conversation happens with the board, the bank or the donor. The laptop conversation happens with procurement, usually when something breaks....
Dawgen Global is an integrated multidisciplinary professional service firm in the Caribbean Region. We are integrated as one Regional firm and provide several professional services including: audit, accounting, tax, IT, risk, HR, performance, M&A, corporate recovery and other advisory services
© 2026 Copyright Dawgen Global. All rights reserved. · Privacy Notice · Cookie Policy · Website Terms · Accessibility
Where to find us?
Stay ahead of Caribbean business
Receive our latest insights on tax, regulation, technology and the economy across the region.