book value

1. 1.

   the value at which an asset is carried on a balance sheet; equals cost minus accumulated depreciation

   Broadervalue

   Narrowercapital stock

Questions about book value

What does book value mean?

book value means "the value at which an asset is carried on a balance sheet; equals cost minus accumulated depreciation".

Is book value a common word?

book value is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.