going concern

noun

: a business that is making a profit

They had a difficult start, but they've turned the restaurant into a going concern.

Examples of going concern in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web No going concern audit opinion surfaced despite plummeting revenues, cash burn and financial woes. —

Noah Barsky, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 The truth is that retail grocers have some of the lowest profit margins of any going concern business—far less than 2%, going back decades. —

Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024 At the moment, a European NATO is not a going concern as a warfighting economy. —

Phillips P. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2024 The mission to counter ISIS remains a going concern, and if the United States is forced to leave Iraq, that effort could suffer a serious blow. —

Ilan Goldenberg, Foreign Affairs, 3 Jan. 2020 Rite Aid’s restructuring plan calls for creditors to take over the struggling chain and exit bankruptcy protection as a going concern, according to court documents. —

Paolo Confino, Fortune, 6 June 2024 As a result substantial doubt exists about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. —

Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2024 Hong Kong’s financial-reporting watchdog has been investigating PwC since 2021, after the accounting firm failed to identify Evergrande’s inability to operate as a going concern. —

Kiuyan Wong, Fortune Asia, 26 Mar. 2024 At the time, Canopy shares had fallen 78% for the year, and the company had acknowledged a going concern risk in its annual report. —

Steve Mollman, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2024

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