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Valuation and Qualifying Accounts | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts [Abstract] |
VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUTS | VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS VIAD CORP SCHEDULE II – VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
|  |  |  |  | Additions |  |  | Deductions |  |  |  |
Description |  | Balance at Beginning of Year |  |  | Charged to Expense |  |  | Charged to Other Accounts |  |  | Write Offs |  |  | Credited to Other Accounts |  |  | Balance at End of Year |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | (in thousands) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Allowance for doubtful accounts: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
December 31, 2009 |  | $ | 2,556 |  |  | $ | 2,940 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (1,604 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 3,892 |
December 31, 2010 |  |  | 3,892 |  |  |  | 615 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (3,335 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | 1,172 |
December 31, 2011 |  |  | 1,172 |  |  |  | 1,696 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (1,796 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | 1,072 |
Deferred tax valuation allowance: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
December 31, 2009 |  | $ | 162 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 162 |
December 31, 2010 |  |  | 162 |  |  |  | 411 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (162 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | 411 |
December 31, 2011 |  |  | 411 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | (55 | ) |  |  | — |  |  |  | 356 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for any allowance and reserve accounts (their beginning and ending balances, as well as a reconciliation by type of activity during the period). Alternatively, disclosure of the required information may be within the footnotes to the financial statements or a supplemental schedule to the financial statements. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 09 -Article 12 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 235 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6881521&loc=d3e24092-122690 + Details
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