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How to Get Paid: Mastering Receivables and Working Capital

July 7, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

Your business may already own all the cash it needs. It is simply being stored in other people’s bank accounts — and on your own shelves. The Problem, Lived “Simone” runs a food-and-beverage distribution business out of Bridgetown, supplying hotels, restaurants and supermarkets across the island. Last month she sat across from a bank officer...

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The 12-Point Caribbean Resilience Playbook: A Synthesis for Entrepreneurs and Boards

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

A few days ago, this series opened with a single observation from the Inter-American Development Bank’s 2026 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report: that resilience is not immunity. The Caribbean entered 2026 with the strongest external scoreboard in years — sovereign spreads at 209 basis points, inflation largely contained, unemployment near historic lows, currencies appreciating...

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Higher for Longer: Refinancing, Maturity Management, and the New Mathematics of Caribbean Debt

May 10, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

In Article 5 of this series, I argued that Caribbean firms which pre-position their balance sheets for the next risk-off episode will gain market share from those that do not. This week, the series turns to the structural condition that makes that pre-positioning so consequential — the most important shift in the cost of capital...

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MARKETPULSE™: Finding, Winning, and Keeping Customers in the Caribbean — A Market Intelligence Framework for SMEs

April 13, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The majority of Caribbean entrepreneurs who struggle with customer acquisition are not struggling because their product or service is inadequate. They are struggling because they have not clearly defined who their ideal customer is, why that customer should choose them over the alternatives, or how to communicate that choice compellingly through the channels where their...

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The Digital CFO: How Caribbean Finance Leaders Are Replacing Spreadsheets with Strategic Intelligence

February 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Spreadsheet Trap There is a scene that plays out every month in finance departments across the Caribbean. The CFO needs a consolidated cash-flow forecast. The finance manager opens a spreadsheet that was built three years ago by someone who has since left the company. The spreadsheet pulls data from another spreadsheet, which pulls data...

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Payables, Supplier Risk & “Funding Without Borrowing”: The WC-PULSE™ CFO Playbook

February 26, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

WC-PULSE Framework™ | Working Capital Thought Series Executive Summary Accounts payable is often treated as the easiest working-capital lever: “extend terms and keep cash longer.” That framing is dangerous. Payables is a liquidity lever, but also a supply-chain risk lever. Pull it too hard and you may trigger price increases, allocation deprioritisation, quality slippage, stock-outs,...

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Inventory: From Safety Stock to Smart Stock (WC-PULSE™ Playbook for Cash and Service Levels)

February 25, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

WC-PULSE Framework™ | Working Capital Thought Series Executive Summary Inventory is the most misunderstood component of working capital because it disguises itself as “service level protection” while silently consuming cash, capacity, and margin. In the WC-PULSE Framework™, inventory is managed as a risk-adjusted service asset—not a warehouse KPI. The goal is not simply to reduce...

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Receivables Under Pressure: A WC-PULSE™ Playbook for Cash, Credit, and Collections

February 25, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

WC-PULSE Framework™ | Working Capital Thought Series Executive Summary Receivables are the most politically sensitive part of working capital—because improving cash usually requires changing customer behaviour, sales incentives, and credit discipline. In the WC-PULSE Framework™, receivables are managed as a risk-adjusted cash portfolio, not a single DSO number. This article sets out a practical receivables...

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Working Capital as a Weapon : How the Best-Run Companies Use PULSE to Outcompete

February 19, 2026by Dr Dawkins Brown

The Unfair Advantage That Hides on the Balance Sheet Over the course of eleven articles, we have systematically dismantled the conventional approach to working-capital management and replaced it with something fundamentally different. We began by exposing the blind spots in the Cash Conversion Cycle. We built the five-layer PULSE diagnostic architecture. We introduced the...

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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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