Оценка проводилась без учета НДС.

(вроде простой вопрос, но... на нормальном языке это должно означать, что оценочная стоимость не включала НДС?)

Спасибо

'did not (or does not if the valuation is still valid) include VAT'.

Кстати, заказчик прислал судебный документ на англ., где написано evaluation. Поэтому меняю везде appraisal на evaluation. Но кто тогда оценщик - valuator или все же appraiser? Поищу в документе.

If it's buildings/land:
When referring to buildings or land, Americans tend to call them 'real estate', whereas Britons tend to call them 'property' (although 'real estate' will be understood). For this reason, when assessing the market value of buildings or land, Brits tend to refer to 'property valuations' rather than 'appraisals'.

In the UK, property valuations are typically carried out by a 'property valuer' or sometimes (if it's just land being valued) a 'land valuer'. Property/land valuers often work in estate agencies. 'Property valuations' is used more often that 'property evaluations', although 'evaluations' will be understood.

A '(real estate) appraisal' may be the US term for what Britons call a 'property valuation' – but I'm not sure.

It all depends on what's being valued and which country it's being valued in.

And the people I am referring to, do not necessarily "deal" with Russia (or any of them FSU republics for that matter): they come here to work and the term they will normally use is "FSU" rather than "CIS". They just wouldn't know what the heck "CIS" is. (ignorant bastards!:-))

@they should be shot!
How about "buggered" instead? :-)))

valuation - финансовая оценка. Сколько стоит.
evaluation - физическая оценка. Как выглядит, в каком состоянии.

In that case, you may find this Wikipedia article useful. I've just found it and it seems to confirm that 'property valuations' in the UK are known as 'real estate appraisals' in the US. It explains the different terms relating to valuations as used in the US and UK – see the Contents board – and can tell you much more than I can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_estate_appraisal

If you don't know whether it's going to US lawyers or British ones, I would just choose one of them and then try to use the terms used in that country. If it contains US terms but ends up going to UK lawyers dealing with foreign property, they should understand most of the American terms, I'd have thought.

In everyday English,
* A 'valuation' is usually an assessment of the financial value of something. It's usually expressed as a specific figure, eg $5.6 million, £135,000 or whatever.
* An 'evaluation' is more general: it's an assessment of how good/bad/suitable/unsuitable/efficient/inefficient something is – not specifically an assessment of its financial value.

An 'evaluation' may have a more specific meaning in the field of property; I don't know. See the Wikipedia article for clues.

А в чем проблема онять разницу между анализом чего-то и оценкой (в контексте ваших assignments)?

Вот, к примеру, два вопроса.

1. Analyzes principles and procedural methodologies to resolve ethical problems.

2. Evaluate principles and procedural methodologies to resolve ethical problems.

Лично я не знаю, как надо ответить на оба вопроса, чтобы не повторить себя же.

"1. Analyze principles and procedural methodologies to resolve ethical problems.
2. Evaluate principles and procedural methodologies to resolve ethical problems.
Лично я не знаю, как надо ответить на оба вопроса, чтобы не повторить себя же."

Мне это так представляется:
Анализ (чего-либо) = что, для чего, где, когда?
Оценка = теперь вы даете оценку того, что выше сформулировали: чужую сначала, если таковая была (или были), а потом уже свою, чтоб в плагиат не вляпнуть;)

Exam-setters and academics are notorious for being pedantic, but I suppose:
* to 'analyse' something means to study it/examine it/look at its various parts/look at how it works/describe it in detail etc; whereas
* to 'evaluate' something means to say how good/bad or suitable/unsuitable or efficient/inefficient etc it is.
Something like that, anyway.

I've never really understood the difference between 'methodologies' and 'methods' myself. And why say 'procedural methodologies' when you can just say 'procedures'? It just leaves the reader feeling discombobulated (='confused' in Earth language!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtmRMXflMk8

(The other word mentioned in the clip is 'flabbergasted' [=very surprised] which, strangely, is heard quite often in informal/spoken English).

'Gobbledygook' [=very confusing (or meaningless) jargon] is another one.

And 'gobbledygook' is what this 'discussion' is gradually sliding into :-D

Incidentally, (while you're at it) care to check an Alex's thread below and weigh in, perhaps?..