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Related Party Transactions | 6 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2012
Related Party Transactions [Abstract] |
Related Party Transactions: |
Note 7 - Related Party Transactions: |  |  |  |
Investment Management (overview): |  |  |  |
On December 23, 2010, the Company deconsolidated its asset management and mutual fund distribution businesses and its interest in these businesses was restructured as a non-voting revenues and non-voting profits interests in EAM. Accordingly, the Company no longer reports this operation as a separate business segment, although it still maintains a significant interest in the cash flows generated by this business and will receive non-voting revenues and non-voting profits interests going forward, as discussed below. Total assets in the Value Line Funds managed and/or distributed by EAM at October 31, 2012, were $2.05 billion, 0.8% above total assets of $2.03 billion in the Value Line Funds managed by EAM at October 31, 2011, as a result of net appreciation in equity assets under management partially offset by redemptions within the funds.
The USGMMF in accordance with a plan approved by the Fund Board merged into a third party fund, the Daily Income Fund, managed by Reich & Tang Asset Management LLC ("Reich & Tang"), effective October 19, 2012. Final documentation was approved at the fund board meeting held during June 2012. EAM will distribute the Daily Income Fund on behalf of Reich & Tang and maintain the shareholder accounts on behalf of the Value Line Funds shareholders who invest in the Daily Income Fund, but EAM is no longer subsidizing the expenses of the money market fund resulting from the low interest rate economic environment. In addition, the merger of the USGMMF will eliminate the cost of administration and fund accounting.
The non-voting revenues and 90% of the Company's non-voting profits interests due from EAM to the Company are payable each quarter under the provisions of the EAM Trust Agreement. The distributable amounts earned through the balance sheet date, which is included in the Investment in EAM Trust on the Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets, and not yet paid, were $1,513,000 and $497,000 at October 31, 2012 and April 30, 2012, respectively.
EAM Trust - VLI's non-voting revenues and non-voting profits interests: |  |
The Company holds non-voting revenues and non-voting profits interests in EAM which entitle the Company to receive from EAM an amount ranging from 41% to 55% of EAM's investment management fee revenues from its mutual fund and separate accounts business. EAM currently has no separately managed account clients. During the period from December 23, 2010 until May 28, 2011, EAM occupied a portion of the premises that the Company leases from a third party. The Company received $44,000 for the month of May, 2011 for rent and certain accounting and other administrative support services provided to EAM on a transitional basis during such period. The Company recorded income from its non-voting revenues interest and its non-voting profits interests in EAM as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended October 31, |  |  | Six Months Ended October 31, |
($ in thousands) |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |  |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
Non-voting revenues interest in EAM |  | $ | 1,414 |  |  | $ | 1,330 |  |  | $ | 2,808 |  |  | $ | 2,821 |
Non-voting profits interest in EAM |  |  | 115 |  |  |  | 13 |  |  |  | 194 |  |  |  | 94 |
|  | $ | 1,529 |  |  | $ | 1,343 |  |  | $ | 3,002 |  |  | $ | 2,915 |
Transactions with Parent: |  |  |  |  |
During the six months ended October 31, 2012 and 2011, the Company was reimbursed $88,000 and $167,000, respectively, for payments it made on behalf of and for services the Company provided to the Parent. There were no Receivables from affiliates or receivables from the Parent on the Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets at October 31, 2012 and April 30, 2012.
The Company is a party to a tax-sharing arrangement with the Parent which allocates the tax liabilities of the two Companies between them. The Company made $230,000 and $245,000 of federal tax payments to the Parent during the six months ended October 31, 2012 or 2011, respectively. Prepaid and refundable income taxes on the Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets included $0 and $530,000 of prepaid federal income tax due from the Parent at October 31, 2012 and April 30, 2012, respectively.
From time to time, the Parent has purchased additional shares of common stock of the Company in the market when and as the Parent has determined it to be appropriate. The Parent may make additional purchases of common stock of the Company from time to time in the future. As of October 31, 2012, the Parent owned approximately 87.3% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for related party transactions. Examples of related party transactions include transactions between (a) a parent company and its subsidiary; (b) subsidiaries of a common parent; (c) and entity and its principal owners; and (d) affiliates. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 6 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39691-107864 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39622-107864 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39549-107864 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 57 -Paragraph 1-4 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 3 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39603-107864 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 850 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 5 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6457730&loc=d3e39678-107864 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 235 -SubTopic 10 -Section S99 -Paragraph 1 -Subparagraph (SX 210.4-08.(k)) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6881521&loc=d3e23780-122690 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 04 -Paragraph b -Article 3A Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher SEC -Name Regulation S-X (SX) -Number 210 -Section 08 -Paragraph k -Article 4 + Details
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