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Accounting for the value of your business assets can be tricky. If your company bought a car, a computer or a backhoe 20 years ago, how much is it worth after two decades of wear and tear? Sell it, ...

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Fair value and future value both have implications for a business, but they deal with different concepts. The first comes up when determining how to properly value assets and liabilities. It's ...

FASB Statement no. 157, Fair Value Measurements, introduces new concepts and practices to the world of financial reporting, including some that are beginning to impact the fair value measurements of ...

To adopt FASB Statement no. 159, companies must comply with the requirements of Statement no. 157, Fair Value Measurements . Companies and their auditors must consider whether the use of fair value ...

You wouldn't buy a car without knowing its Blue Book value. You wouldn't buy a house without an appraisal. Why would you buy shares in a company without knowing the fair value? Morningstar's Fair ...

This article was written by David Mullen, Product Manager for Core Fixed-Income Analytics, and Fateen Sharaby, Business Manager for Index-Linked Products at Bloomberg. Credit futures, which started ...