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Strategic Investments | 6 Months Ended
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Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract] |
STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS | NOTE 5: STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS Cash Converters International Limited As of March 31, 2015, we owned 151,948,000 shares, or approximately 32%, of Cash Converters International, a company headquartered in Perth, Australia and publicly traded on the Australian Stock Exchange. Cash Converters International franchises and operates a worldwide network of over 750 specialty financial services and retail stores, with significant store concentrations in Australia and the United Kingdom, that buy and sell second-hand goods and provide pawn loans, short-term unsecured loans and other consumer finance products. Our initial total investment in Cash Converters International was acquired between November 2009 and November 2012 for approximately $68.8 million. An additional 15,100,000 shares were acquired in December 2014 for approximately $12.1 million in connection with a non-underwritten placement of 47,400,000 shares by Cash Converters International. We account for our investment in Cash Converters International using the equity method. Since Cash Converters International’s fiscal year ends three-months prior to ours, we report the income from this investment on a three-month lag. Cash Converters International files semi-annual financial reports with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission for its fiscal periods ending December 31 and June 30. Due to the three-month lag, income reported for our six-month periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014 represents our percentage interest in the results of Cash Converters International’s operations from July 1, 2014 to December 31, 2014 and July 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013, respectively. During the three and six-month periods ended March 31, 2015, our equity in Cash Converters International’s net loss was $3.7 million and $1.5 million, respectively. During the three and six-month periods ended March 31, 2014 our equity in Cash Converters International’s net income was $0.5 million and $2.9 million, respectively. Additionally, during the six-month periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014, we received dividends of $2.4 million and $2.6 million, respectively. We received no dividends during the three-month periods ended March 31, 2015 and 2014. The following table presents summary financial information for Cash Converters International’s most recently reported results as of March 31, 2015 after translation to U.S. dollars (using the exchange rate as of December 31 of each year for balance sheet items and average exchange rates for the income statement items for the periods indicated):
| December 31, 2014 |  | December 31, 2013
| (in thousands)
Current assets | $ | 200,682 |  |  | $ | 202,735 |
Non-current assets | 157,737 |  |  | 148,011 |
Total assets | $ | 358,419 |  |  | $ | 350,746 |
Current liabilities | $ | 75,700 |  |  | $ | 77,263 |
Non-current liabilities | 54,256 |  |  | 52,522 |
Shareholders’ equity: |  |  |
Equity attributable to owners of the parent | 228,462 |  |  | 224,026 |
Noncontrolling interest | 1 |  |  | (3,065 | )
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity | $ | 358,419 |  |  | $ | 350,746 |
| Six Months Ended December 31,
| 2014 |  | 2013
| (in thousands)
Gross revenues | $ | 167,206 |  |  | $ | 143,517 |
Gross profit | 104,852 |  |  | 91,605 |
(Loss) profit for the period attributable to: |  |  |
Owners of the parent | $ | (4,717 | ) |  | $ | 9,103 |
Noncontrolling interest | (179 | ) |  | (2,417 | )
(Loss) profit for the year — net (loss) income | $ | (4,896 | ) |  | $ | 6,686 |
Cash Converters International’s total assets increased 2% from December 31, 2013 to December 31, 2014. Cash Converters International's (loss) profit for the period attributable to the owners of the parent decreased from a $9.1 million profit in the six-month period ended December 31, 2013 to a loss of $4.7 million loss in the six-month period ended December 31, 2014. The loss is due to a charge that Cash Converters International incurred in December 2014 in connection with the termination of agency agreements with certain development agents. See Note 18 for further discussion of events impacting Cash Converters International's financial information subsequent to March 31, 2015. Albemarle & Bond Holdings, PLC Prior to the quarter ended March 31, 2014, we held an investment in Albemarle & Bond Holdings, PLC ("Albemarle & Bond"). Albemarle & Bond was primarily engaged in pawnbroking, retail jewelry sales, check cashing and lending in the United Kingdom. We accounted for this investment using the equity method. In March 2014, Albemarle & Bond entered into bankruptcy reorganization in the United Kingdom, and on April 15, 2014 Albemarle & Bond announced that the majority of its business and assets had been sold. As a result, we recognized an other-than-temporary impairment of $7.9 million ($5.4 million, net of taxes) during the quarter ended March 31, 2014, which brought our carrying value of this investment to zero. Fair Value Measurements The fair value for Cash Converters International as of March 31, 2015 and 2014 and September 30, 2014 was considered a Level 1 estimate within the fair value hierarchy of FASB ASC 820-10-50, and was calculated as (a) the quoted stock price on the Australian Stock Exchange as of March 31, 2015 and 2014 and September 30, 2014 multiplied by (b) the number of shares we owned as of March 31, 2015 and 2014 and September 30, 2014 multiplied by (c) the applicable foreign currency exchange rate as of March 31, 2015 and 2014 and September 30, 2014. We included no control premium for owning a large percentage of outstanding shares. The table below summarizes the carrying amount and fair value of Cash Converters International as of the dates indicated:
| March 31, 2015 |  | March 31, 2014 |  | September 30, 2014
| (in thousands of U.S. dollars)
Recorded value | $ | 94,510 |  |  | $ | 88,685 |  |  | $ | 91,781 |
Fair value | 105,150 |  |  | 121,478 |  |  | 128,956 |

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