going concern

English

Noun

going concern (plural going concerns)

1. (business, finance, accounting) A successfully 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.

2. (by extension) A person who is active, thriving, energetic, and highly successful in their endeavors.
   • 1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 73:

     ‘H’m! he’s dead orright...I never seen anyone look deader ’n that...though at any time, at th’ best o’ times, he was never what you’d call a goin’ concern.’

Translations

working business

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 持續經營 / 持续经营

• Finnish: toimiva yritys
• French: continuité d’exploitation f
• German: Fortführungsprinzip n
• Romanian: firmă prosperă f, firmă activă f
• Spanish: empresa en marcha f, empresa en funcionamiento f, negocio en marcha, empresa en actividad f