Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In business, the bottom line matters most. There’s no way around it; you need to make money to stay afloat, and so it feels natural to ...

The term "bottom line" is generally used in business finance to refer to profitability. More specifically, bottom-line profit is the net income for a company after all costs of goods sold, fixed costs ...

The triple bottom line is a term coined in the late 1990s by the influential business thinker and consultant, John Elkington. It captures a very neat idea, namely that a modern organisation has three ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Without a solid base of happy customers, even the greatest of business ideas is simply that: an idea. The most successful companies are ...

In the early 1980s, about the time I wrote my first essay on the NewsHour, the phrase "bottom line" came into common usage. In a mere 25 years, the phrase has so governed, indeed overwhelmed, American ...

Historically, most companies have focused their time, energy and resources on their bottom lines and securing the best financial performance for their shareholders. But times are changing and people ...