Composition of Certain Financial Statement Captions (Details Textual) (USD $) In Thousands, unless otherwise specified	3 Months Ended									1 Months Ended		1 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2011	Mar. 31, 2011	Dec. 31, 2010	Jun. 30, 2009	Dec. 31, 2012	Jun. 30, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Feb. 29, 2012 Heritage Global Partners, Inc [Member]	Jun. 30, 2011 Equity Partners [Member]	Feb. 29, 2012 Customer/Broker Network	Dec. 31, 2012 Customer/Broker Network	Feb. 29, 2012 Trade Names [Member]	Dec. 31, 2012 Trade Names [Member]
Financing Receivable, Gross					$ 10
Employee Advance Interest Rate					10.00%
Payments to Acquire Notes Receivable				225
Provision for Loan, Lease, and Other Losses	40		146
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment, Nonaccrual Status	39					0
Payments to Acquire Lease Receivables		248
Acquired Lease Receivables Description		The Company acquired a lease receivable in the amount of $248, which is being reduced by monthly payments of $12 that began in April 2011.
Financing Receivable, Recorded Investment, Past Due					9
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Receivable					0		0	0	0
Allowance for Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable, Current					0		186
Business Acquisition, Cost of Acquired Entity, Purchase Price								7,080	819
Business Acquisition, Purchase Price Allocation, Intangible Assets Other than Goodwill								5,640		4,180		1,460
Finite Lived Intangible Assets Amortization Period										12 years		14 years
Amortization of intangible assets											290		87
Goodwill					$ 5,301		$ 573	$ 4,728	$ 573