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Related Party Transactions
 9 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2015
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 January 31, 2015, were $2.34 billion, 1.6% above total assets of $2.31 billion in the Value Line Funds managed and/or distributed by EAM at January 31, 2014. The increase is primarily a result of net appreciation in equity assets under management partially offset by net redemptions within the Value Line Funds.
 
The Company’s non-voting revenues and non-voting profits interests in EAM entitle it to receive quarterly distributions in a range of 41% to 55% of EAM’s revenues (excluding distribution revenues) from EAM’s mutual fund and separate account business and at least 90% of the Company’s 50% interest in the residual profits of EAM which are payable each fiscal quarter under the provisions of the EAM Trust Agreement. Value Line’s percent share of EAM’s revenues calculated for distribution each fiscal quarter was 49.18%, 49.63% and 49.80% during the first, second and third quarters of fiscal 2015, respectively. Value Line’s percent share of EAM’s revenues calculated each fiscal quarter was 46.66%, 47.27% and 47.91%, during the first, second and third quarters of fiscal 2014, respectively. 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 $2,008,000 and $1,887,000 at January 31, 2015 and April 30, 2014, 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. The Company recorded income from its non-voting revenues interest and its non-voting profits interest in EAM as follows:
             
   
Three Months Ended January 31,
    
Nine Months Ended January 31,
  
($ in thousands)
  
2015
    
2014
    
2015
    
2014
  
Non-voting revenues interest in EAM
   $ 1,862     $ 1,767     $ 5,498     $ 5,028  
Non-voting profits interest in EAM
     162       207       497       569  
    $ 2,024     $ 1,974     $ 5,995     $ 5,597  
 
Transactions with Parent:
 
During the nine months ended January 31, 2015 and January 31, 2014, the Company was reimbursed $104,000 and $113,000, respectively, for payments it made on behalf of and for services the Company provided to the Parent. There were no receivables from affiliates including receivables from the Parent on the Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets at January 31, 2015 and April 30, 2014.
 
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 federal tax payments of $2,560,000 and $1,054,000 to the Parent during the nine months ended January 31, 2015 and January 31, 2014, 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 January 31, 2015, the Parent owned 87.98% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company.