title: Appraisal
text: # Appraisal
  
  Appraisal may refer to:
  
  ## Decision-making
  
  * Appraisal (decision analysis), a decision method
  * Archival appraisal, process for determining which records need to be kept, and for how long
  * Project appraisal, comparing options to deliver an objective
  * Economic appraisal, an appraisal based on comparison of monetary equivalents
  
  ## Property valuation
  
  * Real estate appraisal, the practice of determining the value of real property
  * Business valuation, the process of determining the value of businesses
  * Art valuation, the process of determining the value of works of art
  * Domain appraisal, the act of evaluating the worth of a specific domain name
  * Archival appraisal, the appraisal of archival collections in libraries
  * Appraisal value, the value of a company based on a projection of future cash flow
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Appraisal (discourse analysis), the ways that writers or speakers express approval or disapproval for things or ideas
  * Appraisal theory, a psychological theory of emotion and cognition
  * Appraisal Institute, an international association of professional real estate appraisers
  * Performance appraisal, a method to evaluate employee performance
  