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Composition of Certain Financial Statement Items
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013
Composition of Certain Financial Statement Items [Text Block]

Note 6 – Composition of Certain Financial Statement Items

Amounts receivable

The Company’s amounts receivable are primarily related to the operations of its subsidiaries HG LLC, Equity Partners, and HGP. To date, the Company has not experienced any significant collectability issues with respect to any of its receivables. Given this experience, together with the ongoing business relationships between the Company and its joint venture partners, the Company has not yet been required to develop a policy for formal credit quality assessment. As the Company’s asset liquidation business continues to develop, more comprehensive credit assessments may be required.

At September 30, 2013 the Company had no interest-bearing receivables. At December 31, 2012, the Company had one interest-bearing receivable in the amount of $10, an employee advance bearing interest at 10%, which was repaid in the second quarter of 2013.

At September 30, 2013 the Company had past due non-interest bearing financing receivables of $36, as compared to none at December 31, 2012. The Company does not believe that any allowance for this receivable is required at this time.

During the first nine months of 2013, there were no changes in the Company’s accounting policies for financing receivables, and therefore no related change in the current-period provision for credit losses. During the same period, there were no purchases, sales or reclassifications of financing receivables. There were no troubled debt restructurings during the first nine months of 2013.

Amounts receivable from third parties consisted of the following at September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012:

 

  September 30,     December 31,  

 

  2013     2012  

Accounts receivable (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $0 ; 2012 - $0)

$ 1,960   $ 1,046  

Notes receivable (net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $0)

      10  

Lease receivable

      12  

 

$ 1,960   $ 1,068  

Intangible assets

The Company’s intangible assets are related to its asset liquidation business.

As discussed in Note 3, on February 29, 2012 the Company acquired HGP for a total purchase price of $7,080, of which $5,640 was assigned to identifiable intangible assets, as shown below. The Customer/Broker Network intangible asset is being amortized over 12 years, and the Trade Name intangible asset is being amortized over 14 years. No impairment resulted from the completion of the impairment tests at December 31, 2012, and there have been no events or circumstances in 2013 that would make it more likely than not that the carrying amount of the intangible assets may not be recoverable.

 

  September 30,     December 31,  

 

  2013     2012  

Customer/Broker Network

$ 4,180   $ 4,180  

Accumulated amortization

  (552 )   (290 )

 

  3,628     3,890  

 

           

Trade Name

  1,460     1,460  

Accumulated amortization

  (165 )   (87 )

 

  1,295     1,373  

 

           

Total net intangible assets

$ 4,923   $ 5,263  

Goodwill

The Company’s goodwill is related to its asset liquidation business.

As part of its acquisition of Equity Partners in June 2011, the Company recognized goodwill of $573. No goodwill impairment resulted from the completion of the impairment tests at December 31, 2012, and there have been no events or changes in circumstances in 2013 that make it more likely than not that the carrying amount of this goodwill may be impaired.

As part of its acquisition of HGP in February 2012, the Company recognized goodwill of $4,728. No goodwill impairment resulted from the completion of the impairment tests at December 31, 2012, and there have been no events or changes in circumstances in 2013 that make it more likely than not that the carrying amount of this goodwill may be impaired.

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities consisted of the following at September 30, 2013 and December 31, 2012:

 

  September 30,     December 31,     

 

  2013     2012  

 

           

Due to auction clients

$ 5,407   $ 2,242  

Due to Joint Venture partners

  412     487  

Sales and other taxes

  1,157     552  

Customer deposits

  191      

Remuneration and benefits

  336     373  

Asset liquidation expenses

  27     184  

Auction expenses

  271     134  

Regulatory and legal fees

  34     87  

Accounting, auditing and tax consulting

  193     170  

Patent licensing and maintenance

  14     9  

Other

  311     177  

 

           

Total accounts payable and accrued liabilities

$ 8,353   $ 4,415