How does one valuate used hardware and servers, as well as tools and materials? My company has been bought by another company that requires a third party valuation of all the equipment and inventory that I have as a condition of certain government funding arrangements (it's an indian band in B.C.). I have also been hired to run the new company, and so am too close to provide an accurate accounting of the equipment as is. Some of the servers are very dated (p120, p150, etc.) but still perform specific and valuable tasks such as archiving backups or monitoring the network. Rather than going through the hassle of re-programming the same functions into fast and furious hardware (new aka overkill for these functions) I would rather keep the current hardware and just plug it into the new location, at a considerable cost savings to the new company. Simply amortizing the cost of the hardware will not work, as it is the specific functions that they perform or the fact that a lot of it is hard to find now which makes them worth keeping. I have sale and purchase prices on all of it, including inventory, some of which is refurbished or used. I also have some very dated inventory that I keep 'just in case' it's needed somewhere, and it has proven to be very valuable for repairs or replacements on client's systems in a number of cases (replace a EDO memory stick rather and get them back up and running NOW rather than sell them a new server and have them go through considerable downtime while I program the new hardware for it's specified function). There are also tools that have no end of life, and so I'm reluctant to value them at purchase price less amortization. The replacement value of the tools is now considerably more than it was when I bought most of them, but I feel it would be unfair to stick the appreciated price on them rather than the purchase price. Any ideas or advice on this would be greatly appreciated, as I can't go ahead with the sale until I can find a correct formula for the appraisal that can be applied by an appraiser. Thanks in advance... -- Keith Mastin -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml