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In finance, a revaluation of fixed assets is an action that may be required to accurately describe the true value of the capital goods a business owns. [1] This should be distinguished from planned depreciation, where the recorded decline in the value of an asset is tied to its age.
Revaluation is a change in a price of a good or product, or especially of a currency, in which case it is specifically an official rise of the value of the currency in relation to a foreign currency in a fixed exchange rate system.
IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), the most widely used financial reporting system, defines: "An asset is a present economic resource controlled by the entity as a result of past events. [5]