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Everything That Left the Business

September 6, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A company can cut its dividend by three quarters and still be extracting more than the year before. One number catches it. The covenants in most instruments do not. The Endurance Capital Series, Part Two · The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ A board meets to approve the accounts. The finance director reports that in a...

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Two currencies, one truth.

September 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Multi-currency accounting and FX revaluation A business that sells in one currency and pays its wages in another is running a trading position whether it intends to or not. This article sets out which rate belongs on which transaction, what revaluation is actually for, and why the difference between the invoice and the money that...

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Invoices that send themselves, and chase themselves.

September 4, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Automating invoicing and receivables collection Days sales outstanding is discussed as a measure of customer behaviour. For most businesses it is mostly a measure of their own delays. This article sets out the four intervals you control, what each day of them is worth in cash, and why a gentle unfailing schedule protects relationships...

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If your bank feed is not connected, you are paying someone to retype a statement

September 3, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Bank feeds and automated reconciliation — how they work, and what they do not do Reconciliation is treated as an accounting task. It is data entry with a checking step appended. This article sets out the three ways a feed can be connected, what happens to a transaction once it arrives, and an honest account...

Corporate Finance & M&A IT & Digital Transformation

Do you need a ledger, or an operating system?

September 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Cloud accounting or ERP — how the tier is actually decided Almost every business asks this as a software question, and buys the wrong answer. This article sets out the two constraints that make a system feel too small, the six questions that decide the tier, and an honest account of what a connected application...

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What a finance function is supposed to produce, and how often.

September 2, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

What should a finance department deliver monthly? Finance is the only function in most businesses with no defined output. This article sets out the full schedule — daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual — with what each item is for, and the reader test that removes everything on the list which nobody actually uses. IN...

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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 Borderless Finance Function™: Digital Accounting for Caribbean Businesses

August 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The finance function most Caribbean businesses have was never designed — it accumulated. This is the argument for buying one instead: what the two platform tiers do, how the tier is chosen, what the division performs and what you keep, and what the arrangement produces every month. IN SHORT A borderless finance function is a...

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Trust Requires Evidence: AI Content Assurance, Source Provenance and the New Meaning of a Reliable Document

August 17, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

AI Content Assurance, Source Provenance and the New Meaning of a Reliable Document Executive Summary On 2 August 2026, a new legal duty took effect across the European Union. Under Article 50 of the EU AI Act, generative AI systems must mark their outputs in a machine-readable format so that synthetic content is detectable...

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From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Governance

August 16, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Why Continuous AI Oversight Is Becoming Essential Executive Summary On 27 July 2026, the European Union did something that surprised a great many people who had spent two years preparing for the opposite. Six days before its most consequential artificial intelligence obligations were due to take effect, it postponed them — pushing the deadline...

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