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Governance That Works : Building the Three Lines Model That Boards Actually Trust

February 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Model Everyone Cites and Nobody Implements Ask any governance professional about the three lines model and you will receive a confident explanation: the first line owns and manages risk, the second line provides oversight and expertise, and the third line delivers independent assurance. The model is elegant, logical, and universally endorsed. It appears in...

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The CAE as Strategic Leader: Building Influence, Independence, and Impact

February 20, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Loneliest Job in Governance The Chief Audit Executive occupies one of the most unusual positions in any organisation. They must be close enough to management to understand the business deeply, yet independent enough to challenge management fearlessly. They must be trusted by the Board as an objective voice, yet respected by operational leaders...

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The Seven Pillars of Audit Value How Leading Organizations Measure What Matters

February 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Beyond the Annual Plan: Rethinking What Audit Value Really Means If you asked ten Chief Audit Executives to define the value their function delivers to their organization, you would likely receive ten different answers. Some would point to the number of audits completed. Others would cite the findings issued or the percentage of recommendations implemented....

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Why Internal Audit Is the Most Undervalued Function in Your Organization — And How to Fix It

February 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Billion-Dollar Blind Spot Every year, organizations around the world invest billions of dollars in their Internal Audit functions. They hire talented professionals, purchase sophisticated audit management software, and dedicate significant board time to reviewing audit reports. And yet, when you ask most CEOs, CFOs, or board members whether Internal Audit is delivering maximum value...

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The Board-Ready Working Capital Report :What Directors Actually Need to See

February 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Slide That Nobody Reads There is a slide in virtually every board pack in every boardroom in every market that serves no useful purpose. It appears somewhere between the revenue summary and the capital-expenditure update. It contains a current ratio, a quick ratio, a DSO figure, a DPO figure, and a Cash Conversion Cycle....

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Caribbean CFO Survival Guide : Working Capital in a Small, Open Economy

February 18, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A Different Kind of CFO Challenge If you are a Chief Financial Officer in Kingston, Port of Spain, Bridgetown, Nassau, or Georgetown, you understand something that your counterparts in New York, London, and Toronto do not: the rules of working-capital management that are taught in business schools and published in Harvard Business Review are not...

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From Treasury Silo to Strategic Nerve Centre: Reinventing Working Capital Governance for the Modern Enterprise

February 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Meeting That Reveals Everything Imagine this scene. It plays out every month in boardrooms across the Caribbean, North America, and beyond. The monthly operating review has reached the working-capital agenda item. The Treasurer presents the dashboard: DSO is 47 days, DPO is 38 days, the Cash Conversion Cycle is 52 days, and the current...

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Buffer or Bleed : The US$2.4 Trillion Question Every CFO Gets Wrong

February 16, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

When to Build Working-Capital Buffers. When to Reprice for Margin. And How to Know the Difference. The US$2.4 Trillion Paradox Somewhere in the global financial system, there is US$2.4 trillion that does not know what it is supposed to be doing. It sits on corporate balance sheets in the form of excess working capital...

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Your Cash Conversion Cycle Is Lying to You: Why CFOs Need a PULSE Check

February 16, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Metric Every CFO Trusts – And Shouldn’t There is a number that sits at the heart of every working-capital discussion in every boardroom, every quarterly earnings call, and every CFO’s monthly reporting deck. That number is the Cash Conversion Cycle. It is elegant in its simplicity: Days Sales Outstanding plus Days Inventory Outstanding...

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Natural Resource Shortages: The Silent Balance-Sheet Shock of 2026

February 15, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive summary Natural resource shortages are no longer “supply chain noise”—they are a balance-sheet event. When water, energy inputs, critical minerals, agricultural commodities, and key industrial feedstocks tighten, the first symptoms show up as margin erosion, production volatility, contract disputes, and working-capital strain. For Caribbean businesses—highly trade-dependent and exposed to logistics and FX swings—the shock...

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Governance That Works : Building the Three Lines Model That Boards Actually Trust

The CAE as Strategic Leader: Building Influence, Independence, and Impact

The Seven Pillars of Audit Value How Leading Organizations Measure What Matters

Why Internal Audit Is the Most Undervalued Function in Your Organization — And How to Fix It

The Board-Ready Working Capital Report :What Directors Actually Need to See

Caribbean CFO Survival Guide : Working Capital in a Small, Open Economy

From Treasury Silo to Strategic Nerve Centre: Reinventing Working Capital Governance for the Modern Enterprise

Buffer or Bleed : The US$2.4 Trillion Question Every CFO Gets Wrong

Your Cash Conversion Cycle Is Lying to You: Why CFOs Need a PULSE Check

Natural Resource Shortages: The Silent Balance-Sheet Shock of 2026

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