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  • 1Value and Capital — is a book by the British economist John Richard Hicks, published in 1939. It is considered a classic exposition of microeconomic theory. A central result in consumer demand theory that the book builds on is that goods have value even with only… …

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  • 2book value — n: the value of something as shown on bookkeeping records as distinguished from market value: as a: the value of an asset equal to cost less depreciation b: the value of a corporation s capital stock expressed as its original cost less… …

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  • 3book value — n. 1. the value of any of the assets of a business as shown on its account books 2. a) the net worth of a business, or the value of its capital stock, as shown by the excess of assets over liabilities b) the value, on this basis, of a single… …

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  • 4Book value — In accounting, book value or carrying value is the value of an asset or according to its balance sheet account balance. For assets, the value is based on the original cost of the asset less any depreciation, amortization or impairment costs made… …

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  • 5Book Value — 1. The value at which an asset is carried on a balance sheet. To calculate, take the cost of an asset minus the accumulated depreciation. 2. The net asset value of a company, calculated by total assets minus intangible assets (patents, goodwill)… …

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  • 6book value — 1) See: net book value 2) (net asset value) The value of a company calculated as that of its total assets less intangible assets and liabilities. The information required to calculate the book value is all in the balance sheet. However, it can be …

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  • 7book value — 1) See net book value 2) = net asset value The value of a company calculated as that of its total assets less intangible assets and liability The information required to calculate the book value is all in the balance sheet However, it can be very …

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  • 8book value — noun the value at which an asset is carried on a balance sheet; equals cost minus accumulated depreciation • Hypernyms: ↑value • Hyponyms: ↑capital stock * * * noun [noncount] finance : the amount of money that something (such as a car) is… …

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  • 9Value investing — is an investment paradigm that derives from the ideas on investment and speculation that Ben Graham David Dodd began teaching at Columbia Business School in 1928 and subsequently developed in their 1934 text Security Analysis . Although value… …

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  • 10Capital intensity — is the term in economics for the amount of fixed or real capital present in relation to other factors of production, especially labor. At the level of either a production process or the aggregate economy, it may be estimated by the capital/labor… …

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