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Note 6 - Other (Income) Expense | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Other Income and Expenses [Abstract] |
Other Income and Other Expense Disclosure [Text Block] |
6. | Other (income) expense
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
(Earnings) loss from equity method investments |  | $ | (1,107 | ) |  | $ | (1,230 | ) |  | $ | 3,475 |
Other-than-temporary impairment of investment |  |  | - |  |  |  | - |  |  |  | 3,092 |
Other |  |  | (424 | ) |  |  | (1,211 | ) |  |  | (250 | )
|  | $ | (1,531 | ) |  | $ | (2,441 | ) |  | $ | 6,317 |
During the year ended December 31 2011, as a result of a sustained decline in the market price of the shares of the Company’s investment in Colliers International UK plc, an other-than-temporary impairment charge of $3,092 was recorded in the statement of earnings.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for other income or other expense items (both operating and nonoperating). Sources of nonoperating income or nonoperating expense that may be disclosed, include amounts earned from dividends, interest on securities, profits (losses) on securities, net and miscellaneous other income or income deductions. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 225 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (SX 210.5-03.3,6,7,9) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=26872669&loc=d3e20235-122688 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 03 -Paragraph 3, 6, 7, 9 -Article 5 + Details
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