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Note 7 - Related Party Transactions
9 Months Ended
Jan. 31, 2020
Notes to Financial Statements  
Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block]
Note
7
- Related Party Transactions:
 
Investment Management (overview):
 
The Company has substantial non-voting revenues and non-voting profits interests in EAM, the asset manager to the Value Line Mutual Funds.  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, as discussed below. 
 
Total assets in the Value Line Funds managed and/or distributed by EAM at
January 31, 2020,
were
$3.75
billion,
40%
above total assets of
$2.68
billion in the Value Line Funds managed and/or distributed  by EAM at
January 31, 2019.
 
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
50%
of the residual profits of EAM (subject to temporary increase in certain limited circumstances).  The Voting Profits Interest Holders will receive the other
50%
of residual profits of EAM.  Distribution is
not
less than
90%
of EAM’s profits payable each fiscal quarter under the provisions of the EAM Trust Agreement.   Value Line’s percent share of EAM’s revenues is calculated each fiscal quarter.  The applicable recent non-voting revenues interest percentage for the
third
quarter of fiscal
2020
was
51.03%.
 
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 fees.  The Company recorded income from its non-voting revenues interest and its non-voting profits interests in EAM as follows:
 
   
Three Months Ended January 31,
   
Nine Months Ended January 31,
 
($ in thousands)
 
2020
   
2019
   
2020
   
2019
 
Non-voting revenues interest in EAM
  $
3,033
    $
1,997
    $
8,389
    $
6,060
 
Non-voting profits interest in EAM
   
422
     
213
     
995
     
805
 
    $
3,455
    $
2,210
    $
9,384
    $
6,865
 
 
At
January 31, 2020,
the Company's investment in EAM includes a receivable of
$3,413,000
representing the quarterly distribution of the non-voting revenues share and non-voting profits share.  That sum was subsequently paid.
 
Transactions with Parent:
 
During the
nine
months ended
January 31, 2020
and
January 31, 2019,
the Company was reimbursed
$259,000
and
$256,000,
  respectively, for payments it made on behalf of and for services the Company provided to the Parent Company, Arnold Bernhard and Co., Inc. ("Parent").  There were
no
receivables from the Parent on the Consolidated Condensed Balance Sheets at
January 31, 2020
and
April 30, 2019.
 
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
$3,325,000
and 
$2,050,000
to the Parent during the
nine
months ended
January 31, 2020
and
January 31, 2019,
respectively.
 
As of
January 31, 2020,
the Parent owned
89.57%
of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company.