Valuation may refer to:

Economics

Valuation (finance) In finance, valuation is the process of determining the present value (PV) of an asset. In a business context, it is often the hypothetical price that a third party would pay for a given asset. Valuations can be done on assets (for example, inv ...

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

Real estate appraisal Real estate appraisal, property valuation or land valuation is the process of developing an opinion of value for real property (usually market value). Real estate transactions often require appraisals because they occur infrequently and every pr ...

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

British English British English (BrE, en-GB, or BE) is, according to Oxford Dictionaries, "English as used in Great Britain, as distinct from that used elsewhere". More narrowly, it can refer specifically to the English language in England, or, more broadl ...

), 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 fro ...

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

utility function As a topic of economics, utility is used to model worth or value. Its usage has evolved significantly over time. The term was introduced initially as a measure of pleasure or happiness as part of the theory of utilitarianism by moral philosoph ...

. *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 size or multiplicity of elements of the field. It generalizes to commutative algebra the notion of size in ...

, 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 on a collection of admissible subsets of a fixed set X with values in an abelian semigroup. For example, the Lebesgue measure is a valuation on finite unions of convex bodies (that is, non- ...

, 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-ord ...

, 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 (mathematics), map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive number, positive real numbers including infinity, with cert ...

, a tool for constructing outer measures

Other uses

* Valuation (ethics), the determination of the ethic or philosophic value of an object * For personal valuation, see

dignity Dignity is the right of a person to be valued and respected for their own sake, and to be treated ethically. It is of significance in morality, ethics, law and politics as an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inaliena ...

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