The Department of Transportation, for example, increased the estimated value of preventing one death from $6.6 million in 2009 to $9.4 million last year, adjusting for inflation.
For example, banks have encouraged credit card usage by increasing the value of cash back initial rewards bonuses by 90percentt in the last year, experts say, while debit card rewards programs are either disappearing or falling in value.
If you have spent money increasing the value of the property – adding an extension, for example – you could deduct those costs as well.
Increasing the value of data.
For example, you can increase the value of video/audio bitrate to get a higher image/sound quality and for a compressed file you can decrease the value.
For example, the construction of an expressway nearby may increase the value of a company's land, but neither the income statement nor the balance sheet will reflect this holding gain.
Managers may, for example, manipulate earnings higher to inflate stock prices and increase the value of their stock and option compensation.
The recently passed tax law, for example, may increase your take-home pay, but it's unlikely to increase the value of your house.
Allen Ahearn, in The Book of First Books (1975), for example, stated, "On the average the presence of a dust wrapper will increase the value of a book by 50%.
For example, increasing temperatures may accelerate the decomposition of organic C and increase N availability35.
