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Mergers And Acquisitions
 12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Mergers And Acquisitions [Abstract]  
Mergers And Acquisitions

12. Mergers and Acquisitions

On July 1, 2010, we increased our ownership interest in an existing equity investment and, as a result, recognized a gain, representing the investment's estimated fair value immediately before acquiring control, of $1.0 million, which was reported in interest and other income on our consolidated condensed statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2010. We used a combination of the income and market approaches to estimate the fair value of this equity investment immediately before increasing our ownership interest. For the income approach, we used historical unaudited financial statements, projected financial information and other records and documents. Multiples of selected publicly-traded companies were used to develop multiples for the market approach.

During 2009, we issued 25,000 shares of our Class A common stock worth $64,000 and paid $1.5 million as contingent consideration for two of our 2007 business acquisitions. For purchase price true-up and contingent consideration related to one of its 2008 business acquisitions, Real Goods Solar issued 363,504 shares its Class A common stock with an estimated fair value of $0.7 million and allocated the additional consideration to goodwill, which is not expected to be tax deductible. Real Goods Solar used a period beginning two days before and two days after the date that the consideration became payable in determining the estimated fair value of the securities issued.

During the fourth quarter 2009, we closed one of our insignificant, unprofitable direct to consumer businesses, resulting in a pre-tax deconsolidation loss of $1.8 million, which is reported in our interest and other income (expense), an income tax benefit of $1.6 million, and a net loss of $0.2 million to our consolidated statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2009.

We include results from operations of acquired companies in our consolidated financial statements from their respective effective acquisition dates.