Fair value/Definition

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Fair value [r]: An accounting convention under which the balance sheet valuation of an asset is an estimate of a price that would be fair to both a seller and a buyer of that asset, taking account of the advantages of the transaction to each (replacing the "historical" convention under which assets were valued at the price at which they had been acquired).