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Fair value
In accounting and economics, fair value is a rational and unbiased estimate of the potential market price of a good, service, or asset. It takes into account such objective factors as: acquisition/production/distribution costs, replacement costs, or costs of close substitutes actual utility at a given level of development of social productive capability supply vs. demand and subjective factors such as risk characteristics cost of and return on capital individually perceived utility In accounting, fair value is used as a certainty of the market value of an asset for which a market price cannot be determined. Under US GAAP, fair value is the amount at which the asset could be bought or sold in a current transaction between willing parties, or transferred to an equivalent party, other than in a liquidation sale. This is used for assets whose carrying value is based on mark-to-market valuations; for assets carried at historical cost, the fair value of the asset is not used. One example of where fair value is an issue is a college kitchen with a cost of $2 million which was built five years ago.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Fair Value in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Fair Value in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of Fair Value in a Sentence
The market worked itself to fair value and has taken the scare out. People were far too pessimistic.
Transactions must be done at fair value and this must be sufficiently mitigated to make sure everybody feels good about the deal being done.
What's driving this is their decision to be more prudent in terms of fair value prices. One potential outcome is that it cleans up the balance sheet from the banks' perspective.
With SoftBank shares trading more than 50% below fair value, buying back shares is a good idea. Not only is it a good price but previous buybacks have helped that holding company discount to meaningfully narrow.
The fact that OPEC is going to get together and come up with a fair value for oil gave some boost to the market.
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