Caribbean enterprises are not failing because they are unprofitable. They are failing because of how they were financed — and the structure that fixes it already exists. Introducing The Dawgen Endurance Capital Framework™ There is a conversation that takes place in this region more often than anyone would like to admit, and it always...
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...
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...
Digital receipt capture and document management Bank statements are a conversion problem. Documents are a custody problem — the invoice exists in a van, a pocket or somebody’s inbox, so the ledger does not know the obligation is there. This article sets out what capture actually does, and why permanent attachment matters more than the...
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...
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...
Virtual accounting services and remote bookkeeping in the Caribbean Proximity in accounting was physics, not preference — four physical constraints that have all since dissolved. This article sets out what severed them, what the habit of paying for distance still costs a regional business, and the short honest list of work that genuinely still has...
What happens when your only bookkeeper resigns — and what a handover cannot IN SHORT What leaves with a departing bookkeeper is not the bookkeeping. The ledger stays. What leaves is the undocumented layer — why an account is coded the way it is, which supplier invoices are always queried, what the three-year-old reconciling...
Should I hire an accountant or outsource accounting? The vacancy is usually written before the requirement is. This article sets out what a finance function actually consists of, what an employed hire really costs once it is loaded properly, and why most Caribbean businesses end up with a hybrid rather than a choice between the...
A Permanent Secretary in Jamaica sits on a thirteen-point band and can grow 34.5 per cent within it over twelve years. In the Cayman Islands the equivalent grade has five points and 10.4 per cent of headroom. In Barbados the Permanent Secretary is paid a single flat figure of BBD 164,782 with no progression whatever....
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