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ORGANIZATION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2013
ORGANIZATION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION [Abstract] |
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1. | ORGANIZATION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Organization Capital Southwest Corporation ("CSW") was organized as a Texas corporation on April 19, 1961. Until September 1969, CSW operated as a licensee under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958. At that time, we transferred to our wholly-owned subsidiary, Capital Southwest Venture Corporation ("CSVC"), certain assets and our license as a small business investment company ("SBIC"). CSVC is a closed-end, non-diversified investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"). Prior to March 30, 1988, CSW was registered as a closed-end, non-diversified investment company under the 1940 Act. On that date, CSW elected to become a Business Development Company ("BDC") subject to the provisions of the 1940 Act, as amended by the Small Business Incentive Act of 1980. Because CSW wholly owns CSVC, the portfolios of both CSW and CSVC are referred to collectively as "our," "we" and "us." Capital Southwest Management Company ("CSMC"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CSW, is the management company for CSW and CSVC. CSMC generally incurs all normal operating and administrative expenses, including, but not limited to, salaries and related benefits, rent, equipment and other administrative costs required for its day-to-day operations. Our portfolio is a composite of companies, consisting of companies in which we have controlling interests, developing companies and marketable securities of established publicly traded companies. We make available significant managerial assistance to the companies in which we invest and believe that providing managerial assistance to such investee companies is critical to their business development activities. CSMC receives a monthly fixed fee for management services provided to certain of its control portfolio companies. Basis of Presentation The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP). Under rules and regulations applicable to investment companies, we are precluded from consolidating any entity other than another investment company. An exception to this general principle occurs if the investment company has an investment in an operating company that provides services to the investment company. Accordingly, consolidated financial statements include CSMC, our management company. Portfolio Investment Classification We classify our investments in accordance with the requirements of the 1940 Act. Under the 1940 Act, "Control Investments" are defined as investments in which we own more than 25% of the voting securities or have rights to maintain greater than 50% of the board representation; "Affiliated Investments" are defined as investments in which we own between 5% and 25% of the voting securities; and "Non-Control/Non-Affiliated Investments" are defined as investments that are neither "Control Investments" nor "Affiliated Investments."

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