Based on your financial expertise, provide your response or viewpoint on the given financial question or topic. The response format is open.

How could a company survive just on operations cash flow, i.e. no earnings?
It is true that operation profit comes from gross profit however it is possible for a company to have negative net profit yet have postive cash flow , it has to do with the accounting practice A possible example is that a company has extremely high depreciation expense of fixed asset hence net profit will be negative but cash flow will be positive. Assuming the fixed asset has been fully paid for in earlier years