Becoming a Certified Machinery and Equipment Appraiser (CMEA) has been a huge benefit to the business of Present Value LLC. The company has become more diversified by offering a full complement of appraisal services, including certified machinery and equipment appraisals. Chris Kinzie and Chris Spinelli, the owners of Present Value, share some of the benefits […]
The word “depreciation” has different meanings, depending on the audience to whom you are speaking. In accounting, depreciation means the allocation of the cost of an asset over time. It’s a method of allocating the purchase price of an asset across its useful life, which takes into account normal wear and tear over the asset’s […]
We’ve discussed orderly liquidation value and forced liquidation value in recent posts. Today, we’ll explain the third type of value a Certified Machinery and Equipment Appraiser (CMEA) may assign to your assets: fair market value. Fair market value is based on the best price you’d receive for your machinery or piece of equipment if it […]
In last week’s post, What is Orderly Liquidation Value?, we discussed just that. An orderly liquidation value is based on the idea that a company can afford to sell off its assets to the highest bidder. However, the circumstances are different in the case of forced liquidation value, as the name implies. Forced liquidation value, […]
Do you know what a liquidation value is? It’s the estimated amount of money a company’s assets could quickly be sold for if the company went out of business. In a normal, growing industry that shows profit, a company’s liquidation value would be much less than the company’s share price. In an unprofitable or shrinking […]
The statements on gift taxes in the IRS Pension Protection Act of 2006 and the aspirational best practices for dealing with the IRS laid out in Circular 230, both of which we’ll discuss in later posts, state the importance of accountants verifying the values of equipment and machinery by securing a certified appraisal. Good accountants […]
Attorneys frequently work on cases that involve the value of a business’ physical assets, such as machinery and equipment, but oftentimes rely on the client’s estimates, follow a depreciation schedule, or guess at their value rather than rely on a certified machinery and equipment appraisal. Even value estimates put forth by an uncertified auctioneer or […]
At some point in every business owner’s career, he or she needs to know how much his or her machinery and equipment are really worth. But determining that value is something best left to the professionals. Why? Because the report that states the value can end up in the hands of a lot of entities […]
Over the past couple of years, bankers and lenders have been actively seeking new ways to reduce their liability when making loans. Often, lenders are asked to make a lending decision that involves knowing the value of a piece of machinery or equipment, and one of the best ways they can protect themselves is by […]
Approximately 400 NEBB Institute members worldwide have found that the CMEA professional designation increased their bottom-line profitability just by adding the CMEA designation to their businesses, as we discussed in our post, Real Estate Appraisers Expand Services by Offering Certified Machinery and Equipment Appraisals. And joining NEBB Institute can help you to further reduce the […]
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