Measuring Current Costs of Technologically Inferior Assets

Sharp, Robert F.; Spires, Eric E.

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Title

Measuring Current Costs of Technologically Inferior Assets

Author(s)

• Sharp, Robert F.
• Spires, Eric E.

Issue Date

1982-10

Keyword(s)

Accounting standards

Date of Ingest

2012-10-24T14:29:40Z

Abstract

Recent accounting standards require disclosures of current costs of fixed assets even when the owned asset has been superseded in the market by a technologically superior asset. Although four types of technological change are possible, the standards contain explicit rules for valuing only two types of change. Weil's valuation rules extend and improve upon the official rules by giving explicit recognition to the time value of technological differences. This paper suggests that Weil's rules can be further improved by giving greater attention to usability of technological differences and by considering relative risk in the selection of discount rates. The result of these modifications is a conceptually superior rule and two practical equivalents, each of which is applicable to any and all types of technological change.

Publisher

Urbana, Ill. : College of Commerce and Business Administration. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

BEBR faculty working paper ; no. 0908

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Working / Discussion Paper

Language

en

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