1.   In December, talks between the four partners collapsed when they could not agree on how to value the assets each contributes to Airbus.

2.   Legislators are concerned about how best to value the assets and, if they are owned by the state, who pays for upkeep and maintenance.

3.   The candidates need only value their assets in a broad range on the forms.

4.   The companies have completed a review of assets that would be contributed to the venture, and have resolved differences on valuing those assets, Beghini said.

5.   Under the new accounting principles, companies will be allowed to use price indexes to value their assets.

6.   But the process of valuing bank assets has been complicated by uncertainty resulting from the current macroeconomic distress.

7.   The assets are valued at the current cost of replacement.

8.   These substantial write-offs are the result of rule changes that take effect this year for valuing goodwill assets in the United States.