MTS Journal

A special note from the Editor of ASA’s MTS Journal.

News from ASA’s Machinery and Technical Specialties Committee.

Important information and updates from MTS Discipline Governors.

This article discusses the market for the “market approach”.

This article is a reprint from Volume 28 on collateral documentation and asset recovery for asset based loans.

What exactly is meant when the aircraft for sale claims to have “new” paint and interior? and why this is an important?

M&E depreciation is often determined using average life and actuarial survivor curves resulting in mortality studies of observed life indications. Such studies are often insufficient for property subject to technological and other abnormal obsolescence.

Appraisers needs to develop the replacement cost new that is as efficient as currently possible to take advantage of improvements that have been made in the technology for communication equipment and the customer demand that exists.