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English
Noun
going concern (plural going concerns)
- (business, finance, accounting) An operating enterprise.
2009 May 14, “Dilute or die”, in The Economist:If the bank does not act swiftly to push the CDS price back down, the regulator seizes the assets, wipes out shareholders and sacks the management. The bank is recapitalised as a going concern and later sold.
2010 February 22, The Guardian:At Acromas, the balance sheet is more than £1bn in the red and a pre-tax loss of £300m was recorded in the year to January 2009. But Acromas is still regarded as a viable going concern.
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