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Analytics-First Internal Audit: Process Mining, Continuous Monitoring, and Faster Findings with Dawgen IA360™

October 24, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Analytics-first internal audit replaces episodic, sample-heavy work with population testing, process mining, and continuous monitoring, cutting cycle time while increasing assurance coverage. Dawgen IA360™ operationalizes analytics across the audit lifecycle—Risk Signal Scan → Assurance Blueprint → Data-Led Fieldwork → Findings→Fixes → Assurance Pack → Continuous Insight Loop—and bakes in external-audit synergy. This article...

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From Controls to Confidence: A Practical Guide to Risk-Based Internal Auditing (RBIA) with Dawgen IA360™

October 24, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Risk-Based Internal Auditing (RBIA) aligns audit effort to what most threatens enterprise value—improving assurance quality while reducing cycle time and cost. Dawgen IA360™ operationalizes RBIA with a repeatable lifecycle: Risk Signal Scan → Assurance Blueprint → Data-Led Fieldwork → Findings→Fixes → Assurance Pack → Continuous Insight Loop. This guide provides a practical, IIA-aligned...

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Designing a World-Class Internal Audit Function for the Caribbean: The Dawgen IA360™ Blueprint

October 24, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Internal Audit (IA) is a strategic capability that safeguards value, accelerates performance, and strengthens trust with boards, regulators, and external auditors. Dawgen IA360™ is our proprietary, IPPF-aligned operating model that blends risk-based planning, analytics-first fieldwork, and change-ready remediation—purpose-built for the realities of Caribbean and regional organizations. This article provides a complete blueprint: governance...

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Internal Audit as a Strategic Advantage: How IA360™ Turns Risk into Performance

October 23, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Executive Summary Internal audit (IA) is no longer a compliance cost center—done right, it is a performance engine that sharpens decision-making, reduces loss, and accelerates growth. Dawgen IA360™ is our proprietary, standards-aligned method that fuses the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) with analytics-first execution, pragmatic change management, and a clear...

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Small Business Tax That Grows Up: VAT Thresholds, Broad Bases, and Digital Simplicity

October 23, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Getting small-business taxation right is one of the fastest ways to boost formalization, investment, and productivity. Two levers matter most in consumption taxes: a broad base and a sensible VAT (or sales tax) registration threshold. Lower, tighter thresholds reduce distortions between firms; broader bases (a higher VAT Revenue Ratio) let governments keep rates lower with...

Strategy & Transformation Tax

Financing Without Favor: Ending the Debt Bias and Making Corporate Funding Neutral

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Most corporate tax systems subsidize borrowing and penalize equity. Interest is usually deductible; the normal return to equity is not. That debt bias nudges firms toward higher leverage, raises financial fragility, and distorts investment choices. The International Tax Competitiveness Index (ITCI) 2025 highlights two families of fixes: (1) Allowance for Corporate Equity (ACE)—a deduction for...

Strategy & Transformation Tax

The Case Against Financial Transaction Taxes: How Tiny Rates Create Big Frictions

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Financial Transaction Taxes (FTTs) sound simple: add a tiny levy to each trade and raise easy revenue. In reality, they act like sand in the gears of capital markets. Even at a few basis points, FTTs widen spreads, thin liquidity, and slow the reallocation of capital to its best uses. The costs land on everyone...

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Taxing Work (and Saving) Well: Building a Competitive Individual Tax System

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

How a country taxes work and saving shapes labor supply, entrepreneurship, and long-term investment. Competitive systems pair moderate top rates with sensible thresholds, keep the marginal tax wedge in check, avoid add-on surtaxes, and minimize the second layer of tax on dividends and capital gains. This guide sets out a practical reform blueprint—especially relevant...

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Territorial vs. Worldwide: Designing Cross-Border Rules that Attract Investment in a Pillar Two World

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Cross-border tax rules can either welcome global capital or push it away. The strongest regimes are simple and predictable: territorial systems that exempt foreign dividends and capital gains, streamlined withholding taxes supported by robust treaties, and anti-avoidance rules that protect the base without choking ordinary finance. Even with the rise of the global minimum...

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Property Taxes with Purpose: Designing Less-Distortive Capital and Real-Estate Levies

October 22, 2025by Dr Dawkins Brown

Well-designed property and wealth taxes can raise stable revenue with fewer side effects. Poorly designed ones act as direct taxes on capital—discouraging new construction, renovations, and business expansion, while spawning compliance costs that do little to grow the real economy. The International Tax Competitiveness Index (ITCI) 2025 is explicit: jurisdictions that tax land only...

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Analytics-First Internal Audit: Process Mining, Continuous Monitoring, and Faster Findings with Dawgen IA360™

From Controls to Confidence: A Practical Guide to Risk-Based Internal Auditing (RBIA) with Dawgen IA360™

Designing a World-Class Internal Audit Function for the Caribbean: The Dawgen IA360™ Blueprint

Internal Audit as a Strategic Advantage: How IA360™ Turns Risk into Performance

Small Business Tax That Grows Up: VAT Thresholds, Broad Bases, and Digital Simplicity

Financing Without Favor: Ending the Debt Bias and Making Corporate Funding Neutral

Taxing Work (and Saving) Well: Building a Competitive Individual Tax System

Property Taxes with Purpose: Designing Less-Distortive Capital and Real-Estate Levies

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