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What is the triple bottom line?

Triple bottom line measures success via people, profit, and planet. John Elkington coined the term in the mid-1990s. Examples ...
The "bottom line" is colloquially used as a metaphor to refer to "the essential or salient point" of a discussion. The term originally came from accounting. On an income statement, the top line is ...
With many accounting firms billing by the hour, lost time equals lost revenue, so keeping your IT network running 100 percent of the time is absolutely essential. I should know—public accounting was ...