VALUATION

The procedure for finding an individual investor’s value of an asset; could be either asking price or bid price.

VALUATION ADJUSTMENTS (XVAS)

Valuation adjustment is the umbrella name for adjustments made to the fair value of a derivatives contract to take into account funding, credit risk and regulatory capital costs. Dealers typically incorporate the costs associated with XVAs into the price of a new trade. The oldest XVA is the credit valuation adjustment (CVA), which reflects the […]

VALUATION FACTOR

A timber tract’s net present value expressed as a proportion of its current stumpage value.

VALUATION METHODOLOGY

Defines the process of expressing a value for a particular good or service in a certain context (decision making). Usually in terms of something that can be counted, often money, but also through methods and measures from other disciplines (sociology, ecology, etc.).

VALUATION OF NATURAL ASSETS

Methods of applying a monetary value to natural assets in environmental accounting that include (1) market valuation; (2) direct nonmarket valuation, such as assessment of the willingness to pay for environmental services (contingent valuation); and (3) indirect nonmarket valuation, for example, costing of environmental damage or of compliance with environmental standards. See also maintenance (cost) […]

VALUE

The worth of a good or service as determined by people’s preferences and the tradeoffs they choose to make given their scarce resources, or the value the market places on an item.

VALUE ADDED

Difference between the value of goods produced and the cost of materials and supplies used in producing them.

VALUE CHAIN

All upstream and downstream activities associated with the operations of the organization.

VALUE CHAIN APPROACH

Development interventions which look at whole value chain, from access to means of production, possibly processing, and marketing to the end user or consumer. The actual intervention will target bottlenecks or critical links in the chain, which offer opportunities or remove constraints for a desired outcome.

VALUE FACTOR

The value factor is an attribute of stocks that are chosen by factor investors. The value factor is based on a belief that stocks that are inexpensive relative to some measure of fundamental value outperform those that are pricier. The value factor has a long history in financial research starting in 1930s when academics developed […]