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Note 4 - Debts and Commitments | 12 Months Ended
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Commitments Disclosure [Text Block] | 4. DEBTS AND COMMITMENTS In December 2012, the Company borrowed from its investment margin account the purchase price of $14 million for the New Dawn acquisition, and in September 2013, it borrowed another $15.5 million for the ISD acquisition, in each case pledging its marketable securities as collateral. The interest rate for these investment margin account borrowings fluctuates based on the Federal Funds Rate plus 50 basis points with interest only payable monthly. The interest rate as of September 30, 2015 was 0.75%, and there has been no fluctuation in the interest rate since December 2012. These investment margin account borrowings do not mature. The Company owns its facilities in Los Angeles and leases space for its other offices under operating leases which expire at various dates through fiscal 2020. During fiscal 2014, the Company renewed its office lease for its San Francisco office for five years to end on October 31, 2019 with currently a monthly rent of approximately $22,000 for about 6,200 square feet. The Logan, Utah office operating lease entered into in December 2012 in connection with the New Dawn acquisition required a monthly rent of $42,000 for about 30,200 square feet and expired in December 2015. (The Company purchased this Logan building in November 2015 prior to the expiration of the lease.) Part of this office space is sub-leased to third parties under short-term leases for approximately $5,000 per month. Journal Technologies leases about 7,100 square feet of office space, expiring in March 2017, in Corona, California, for a monthly rent of about $12,000. The Company is responsible for a portion of maintenance, insurance and property tax expenses relating to these leased properties and certain other leased properties. Rental expenses for fiscal years 2015, 2014 and 2013 were $1,171,000, $1,182,000 and $884,000, respectively. The following table represents the Company’s future obligations:
|  | Payments due by Fiscal Year |
|  | 2016 |  |  | 2017 |  |  | 2018 |  |  | 2019 |  |  | 2020 |  |  | 2021 and after |  |  | Total |
Obligations under operating leases |  | $ | 629,000 |  |  | $ | 476,000 |  |  | $ | 303,000 |  |  | $ | 294,000 |  |  | $ | 25,000 |  |  | $ | --- |  |  | $ | 1,727,000 |
Long-term accrued liabilities* |  |  | --- |  |  |  | 9,000 |  |  |  | 6,000 |  |  |  | --- |  |  |  | --- |  |  |  | 32,000 |  |  |  | 47,000 |
|  | $ | 629,000 |  |  | $ | 485,000 |  |  | $ | 309,000 |  |  | $ | 294,000 |  |  | $ | 25,000 |  |  | $ | 32,000 |  |  | $ | 1,774,000 |
* The long-term accrued liabilities are discounted to the present value using a discount rate of 6%.

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