- Estimating Asset Value
o Current assets to be sold within one year should be valued at their expected selling price minus selling costs.
o Supplies should be valued at their original cost.
o Growing annual crops should be valued at the incurred cash costs adjusted for any damage.
o Machinery, breeding stock, and other intermediate assets should be valued using either the cost basis method (their original basis at purchase less any depreciation taken) or the market value method (their expected selling price minus selling costs).
o Real estate improvements and other long-term depreciable assets should be valued using either the cost basis method or the market value method.
Another seldom-used method is replacement cost less a depreciation amount reflecting the age of the asset or replacement cost for equivalent function less depreciation.
o Farmland should be valued using (1)the cost basis method, (2) the market value method, or (3) the income capitalization value.