Valuation may refer to:

Economics

Valuation (finance) In finance, valuation is the process of determining the value of a (potential) investment, asset, or security. Generally, there are three approaches taken, namely discounted cashflow valuation, relative valuation, and contingent claim valuatio ...

, the determination of the economic value of an asset or liability **

Real estate appraisal Real estate appraisal, home appraisal, property valuation or land valuation is the process of assessing the value of real property (usually market value). The appraisal is conducted by a licensed appraiser. Real estate transactions often require ...

, sometimes called ''property valuation'' (especially in

British English British English is the set of Variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United Kingdom, especially Great Britain. More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadly, to ...

), the appraisal of land or buildings *A distinction between

real prices and ideal prices The distinction between real prices and ideal prices is a distinction between ''actual prices paid'' for products, services, assets and labour (the net amount of money that actually changes hands), and ''computed'' prices which are not actually cha ...

Marxist theory Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew f ...

. *The term valuation function is often used as a synonym to

utility function In economics, utility is a measure of a certain person's satisfaction from a certain state of the world. Over time, the term has been used with at least two meanings. * In a Normative economics, normative context, utility refers to a goal or ob ...

. *The

sociology of valuation The sociology of valuation (sometimes "valuation studies") is an emerging area of study focusing on the tools, models, processes, politics, cultural differences and other inputs and outcomes of valuation. Current research The area has strong ...

also takes economic valuation practices as an object of study. * '' Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies''

Mathematics

Valuation (algebra) In algebra (in particular in algebraic geometry or algebraic number theory), a valuation is a function on a field that provides a measure of the size or multiplicity of elements of the field. It generalizes to commutative algebra the notion of si ...

, a measure of multiplicity **

p-adic valuation In number theory, the valuation or -adic order of an integer is the exponent of the highest power of the prime number that divides . It is denoted \nu_p(n). Equivalently, \nu_p(n) is the exponent to which p appears in the prime factorization of ...

, a special case *

Valuation (geometry) In geometry, a valuation is a finitely additive function from a collection of subsets of a set X to an abelian semigroup. For example, Lebesgue measure is a valuation on finite unions of convex bodies of \R^n. Other examples of valuations on fini ...

, a generalization of finitely-additive measures *

Valuation (logic) In logic and model theory, a valuation can be: *In propositional logic, an assignment of truth values to propositional variables, with a corresponding assignment of truth values to all propositional formulas with those variables. *In first-order ...

, an operation on well-formed formulas with the semantics of evaluation *

Valuation (measure theory) In measure theory, or at least in the approach to it via the domain theory, a valuation is a map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive real numbers including infinity, with certain properties. It is a concept clo ...

, a tool for constructing outer measures

Other uses

Valuation (ethics) In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics), or to describe the significance of different ac ...

, the determination of the ethic or philosophic value of an object * For personal valuation, see

dignity Dignity is a human's contentment attained by satisfying physiological needs and a need in development. The content of contemporary dignity is derived in the new natural law theory as a distinct human good. As an extension of the Enlightenment- ...

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