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Deprival value and fair value: a reinterpretation and a reconciliation

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  • Tony Zijl
  • Geoffrey Whittington

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Measurement is an important current issue for financial accounting standard-setters. Current values are increasingly replacing historical cost measures, but an important unresolved issue is the precise form that current value should take. In this paper two alternative measurement bases that have appeared in accounting standards. Deprivai Value (sometimes called Value to the Business) and Fair Value, are explained and compared. They are then reconciled by making the following three adjustments to their conventional definitions. (1) In the case of Deprival Value, situations in which net realisable value exceeds replacement cost imply that there is a profitable redevelopment or redeployment opportunity, so that net realisable value is regarded as the appropriate measure of Deprivai Value. (2) In the case of Fair Value, transactions costs (including installation and removal costs) are added to acquisition values and deducted from disposal values. (3) In the case of Fair Value, it is assumed that net realisable value represents the ‘highest and best use’, except when it is exceeded by both replacement cost and value in use. In the latter case, ‘highest and best use’ (and therefore Fair Value) is inferred by assuming profit-maximising behaviour by the owner. It is suggested that the resulting synthesis represents a method of current valuation which is consistent with the objective of measuring the asset in terms of the economic opportunities that are available to its current owner in the condition and location in which it is currently to be found.

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  • Tony Zijl & Geoffrey Whittington, 2006. "Deprival value and fair value: a reinterpretation and a reconciliation," Accounting and Business Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(2), pages 121-130.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acctbr:v:36:y:2006:i:2:p:121-130
    DOI: 10.1080/00014788.2006.9730014
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    1. Hayoun, Shaul, 2019. "How fair value is both market-based and entity-specific: The irreducibility of value constellations to market prices," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 68-82.
    2. Ionica Oncioiu & Florin Razvan Oncioiu & Daniela Simona Nenciu, 2012. "Convergences And Divergences Related To Fair Value," Review of Business and Finance Studies, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 3(2), pages 81-88.
    3. Pier Luigi Marchini & Carlotta D'Este, 2015. "Comprehensive Income: which potential effects on firms? performance evaluation and users? decision process?," FINANCIAL REPORTING, FrancoAngeli Editore, vol. 2015(2), pages 55-94.
    4. Carien van Mourik & Yuko Katsuo Asami, 2018. "Articulation, Profit or Loss and OCI in the IASB Conceptual Framework: Different Shades of Clean (or Dirty) Surplus," Accounting in Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(2), pages 167-192, May.
    5. Gwilliam, David & Jackson, Richard H.G., 2008. "Fair value in financial reporting: Problems and pitfalls in practice," Accounting forum, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 240-259.
    6. Richard D. Morris, 2024. "Commentary on ‘Accounting for Inflation: The Dog That Didn't Bark’," Abacus, Accounting Foundation, University of Sydney, vol. 60(1), pages 13-20, March.

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