APPRAISAL 101 TOPICS
A desktop equipment appraisal is a valuation completed without a site inspection, relying instead on provided information about the subject assets. Also called a desk appraisal or an uninspected appraisal, a desktop appraisal is completed by the appraiser at their office desk.
The information provided might include assets lists of equipment, photographs, invoices, or other documents. Each appraisal is unique, so Sencer Appraisal works with our clients to determine the information required to complete the appraisal process.
The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), the ethical and performance standards for the appraisal profession in the United States, does not require an inspection of the appraised assets. The standards of the American Society of Appraisers (which accredits our appraisers), those of the International Valuation Standards (used for financial reporting both inside and outside the United States), and the standards of the Internal Revenue Service also have no requirement for an inspection. The equipment appraiser is just required to disclose whether or not they inspected the equipment. The appraiser must also make sure there is enough information on the assets to develop a “credible” uninspected desktop equipment appraisal. This means Sencer Appraisal’s equipment appraisers can only consider a desktop equipment appraisal if the provided information will have complete detail on the equipment.
The hurdle with the desktop equipment appraisal process is that we still need enough detail on each and every appraised asset. So while our appraisers aren’t inspecting the assets, someone still needs to gather and organize the information about the assets. It is just a question of whether the appraiser is collecting the information on each asset or if the client is doing so themself. With the client doing the information gathering though, a desktop appraisal can sometimes be a more economical solution, as long as the information is provided in an organized manner. (See our desktop appraisal FAQ for details.)
To find out more about whether your valuation project is a good fit for a uninspected desktop equipment appraisal, please read our desktop equipment appraisal FAQ or give us a call at 888-473-6237.
Just a sample of some the many types of equipment from the many industries that we regularly appraise:
Restaurant equipment appraisals including:
- Banquettes & cabinetry
- Bars & other furniture
- Broilers & fryers
- Beverage dispensers, blenders & mixers
- Cash registers & POS systems
- Catering equipment
- Coffee brewing & espresso equipment
- Dining room furnishings
- Dishwashing equipment
- Equipment stands & work tables
- Food preparation equipment
- Food wells & warmers
- Grills & griddles
- Holding & proofing cabinets
- Hoods & fire suppression systems
- Ovens & ranges
- Office furniture & equipment
- Refrigerators, freezers & coolers
- Sandwich, salad & pizza equipment
- Steam & cold food tables
Food processing equipment appraisals including:
- Agitators, blenders and mixers
- Air compressors & dryers
- Baking equipment
- Brewing and brewery equipment
- Cannabis industry equipment
- Coffee harvesting, processing, roasting, and packaging equipment
- Delivery trucks & vans
- Equipment washers
- Food production lines
- Forklifts & material-handling equipment
- Fryers
- Kettles & tanks
- Mixers & pumps
- Office furniture and equipment
- Ovens
- Printing, Labeling and packaging equipment
- Proofers & retarders
- Refrigerators, freezers and coolers
- Storage and shelving units
- Tempering machines
- Waste compactors
- Winery equipment
Farm equipment appraisals including:
- Air compressors and dryers
- Backhoes
- Balers
- Bottling and packaging equipment
- Cannabis industry equipment
- Combines
- Conveyors
- Coffee harvesting, processing, roasting, and packaging equipment
- Destemmers
- Drills and seeders
- Fermenters
- Forklifts, telehandlers, and other material handling equipment
- Harvesters
- Loaders
- Mowers
- Pickers, separators, strippers and washers
- Presses
- Planters
- Rippers and tillers
- Sprayers and spreaders
- Stainless steel tanks
- Tractors
- Trailers
- Trucks
- Utility vehicles and ATVs
- Winery cooperage
- Office and shop equipment
Woodworking equipment appraisals including:
- Air Compressors & dryers
- Boring machines
- CNC machines
- Delivery trucks and vans
- Drills, drill presses and screw guns
- Dust collectors
- Edge banders, gluers and laminators
- Forklifts & other material handling
- Painting equipment
- Routers, morticers, & trimmers
- Saws & mills
- Sanders, jointers, planers & surfacers
- Staplers, nailers, screwers & fasteners
- Slitters and tenoners
- Vacuum systems
- Veneer and truss machinery
- Office furniture and equipment
- Storage and shelving units
Dry cleaning equipment appraisals including:
- Air compressors & dryers
- Boilers & return systems
- Coin laundry equipment
- Conveyors
- Counters and sorting bins
- Delivery trucks & vans
- Dry cleaning equipment (hydrocarbon, perc & green)
- Dryers & tumblers
- Extraction systems
- Finishers
- Finishing & spotting boards
- Folding systems
- Formers
- Irons
- Injection systems
- Pumps & tanks
- Presses, leggers & toppers
- Sleevers
- Storage systems
- Vacuum systems
- Washer-extractors
- Washing machines
- Water heaters
- Cash registers & computer equipment
Office equipment appraisals including:
- Audio / visual equipment
- Bookcases
- Cash registers & POS systems
- Chairs, desks & tables
- Cleaning equipment
- Computers & displays
- Cubicles, partitions & wall units
- Display cabinets & shelving units
- Fax machines, photocopiers, scanners, printers & plotters
- File cabinets & storage systems
- General office equipment
- Networking equipment
- Pallet racks
- Postage machinery
- Safes, vaults, & ATMs
- Security system
- Surveillance systems
- Telephone & VoIP systems
Automotive repair equipment appraisals including:
- Air Compressors & dryers
- Alignment scopes
- Brake lathes
- Cash registers & computer equipment
- Counters
- Delivery trucks & vans
- Engine analyzers
- Frame straighteners
- Lifts
- Mills
- Office furniture & equipment
- Paint booths & exhaust systems
- Recycling & recovery systems
- Shop presses
- Storage & shelving units
- Welding equipment
- Work benches
Lab equipment appraisals including:
- Analytical balances & scales
- Air compressors & dryers
- Cooling, chiller & heat exchanger systems
- Environmental chambers
- Generators
- Hoods & fire suppression systems
- Laboratory furniture & equipment
- Lab ovens & furnaces
- Load testers
- Microscopes
- Oscilloscopes
- Power supplies
- Spectrometers
- Transformers & power conditioners
- Vibration test systems
Material handling equipment appraisals including:
- Bridge cranes
- Bulk material handling systems
- Conveyors
- Forklifts
- Hand trucks
- Jib cranes
- Pallet jacks
- Pallet racks
- Positioning equipment
- Robotic systems
- Sortation systems
- Storage & shelving systems
- Walkie stacker
High-Tech equipment appraisals including:
- Analyzers
- Bonding systems
- Centrifuges & separators
- Circuit board equipment
- Cleaning, curing & deburring Systems
- Cryogenic equipment
- Environmental chambers
- Filtration equipment
- Generators
- Laboratory furniture & equipment
- Pick & place machines
- Printing, labeling & packaging equipment
- Quality control, testing & measuring equipment
- Tanks, pumps, & power supplies
- Transformers & power conditioners
- Office furniture & equipment
Computer equipment appraisals including:
- Computers & displays
- Network hubs & switches
- Network racks & patch panels
- Office furniture & equipment
- Photocopiers, printers, scanners & plotters
- Security systems
- Servers
- Storage arrays
- Surveillance systems
- Telephone & VoIP systems
- Transformers & power conditioners
- Videoconferencing systems
Processing equipment appraisals including:
- Air compressors & dryers
- Bag house dust collection systems
- Blending systems
- Molding equipment
- Boilers, ovens & furnaces
- Conveyors & augers
- Cooling, chiller & heat exchanger systems
- Delivery trucks & vans
- Extruders
- Feeders & upsetters
- Forklifts & other material handling equipment
- Grinders & granulators
- Hot stampers
- Injection molding machines
- Inspection systems
- Kettles, tanks, reactors & pumps
- Laboratory equipment
- Pelletizers
- Printers, labeling & packaging equipment
- Quality control, testing & measuring equipment
- Recycling systems
- Security and surveillance systems
- Shop equipment
- Thermoforming & vacuum forming
- Waste compactors
- Welders
- Winders, strappers & binders
- Wire & tube machinery
- Waste compactors & balers
- Storage & shelving units
- Office furniture & equipment
Serving industry and offices across New England and across the country, including Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia.
Serving industry and offices across the Western United States and across the country, including Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
- Los Angeles County
- Orange County
- San Diego County
- San Bernardino County
- Riverside County
- Ventura County
- Santa Barbara County
- San Luis Obispo County
- Imperial County
- and across California
- Alameda County
- Russian River Valley
- East Bay
- North Coast
- San Francisco Bay Area
- South Bay
- Alameda
- Berkeley
- Chico
- Concord
- Elk Grove
- Fairfield
- Fremont
- Fresno
- Hayward
- Livermore
- Marin
- Mendocino
- Merced
- Modesto
- Monterey
- Napa
- Oakland
- Petaluma
- Redding
- Richmond
- Roseville
- Sacramento
- Salinas
- San Francisco
- San Jose
- San Luis Obispo
- San Mateo
- Santa Clara
- Santa Cruz
- Santa Rosa
- Stockton
- Sunnyvale
- Vallejo
- Visalia
- and just about everywhere in between.
- Bend
- Beaverton
- Corvallis
- Eugene
- Grants Pass
- Gresham
- Hillsboro
- Medford
- Portland
- Salem
- Springfield
- Applegate Valley
- Columbia Gorge region
- Columbia Valley
- Illinois Valley
- Rogue Valley
- Snake River Valley
- Tualatin Valley
- Umpqua Valley
- Walla Walley Valley
- Willamette Valley
- and throughout Oregon
- Ogden
- Orem
- Provo
- Salt Lake City
- the Wasatch Front
- and across the state
- St. George
- Bellevue
- Bellingham
- Everett
- Federal Way
- Kent
- Olympia
- Redmond
- Renton
- Seattle
- Snohomish
- Spokane
- Tacoma
- Vancouver
- the Spokane Valley
- the Yakima Valley
- and throughout Washington
Serving industry and offices across the Eastern and Southern United States and across the country, including Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Serving industry and offices across the Southwestern United States and across the country, including Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.