14. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Assets

Accounts receivable – related parties of $252,852 and $39,837 at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, represents the net realizable value of advances made to separate entities under common management.

See Note 6 – Investments and Fair Value of Financial Instruments, for a discussion of the Company’s investment in warrants of a separate entities under common management.

Expense Sharing

On April 1, 2010, the Company entered into an agreement with a Related Party to share expenses such as office space, support staff and other operating expenses (the “Related Party ESA”). The agreement was amended on January 1, 2017 to reflect the current use of personnel, office space, professional services. During the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company recorded a contra-expense of $705,912 and $493,944, respectively, related to the reimbursement of general and administrative expenses as a result of the agreement.

During 2019, the Related Party prepaid $566,132 of its future obligations under the Related Party ESA, in exchange for a 15% reduction in the Related Party’s expense obligations under the Related Party ESA, until the prepayment has been reduced to $0. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Related Party prepaid an additional $574,000 in connection with the Related Party ESA. The Company applied the contra-expense of $466,582 to its obligations under the Related Party ESA and repaid $673,550 of the amounts owed to the Related Party during the year ended December 31, 2020.

The Company had an expense sharing agreement with a different related entity to share expenses such as office space and other clerical services which was terminated in August 2017. The owners of more than 5% of that entity include (i) GGH’s chairman, and (ii) a more than 5% owner of GGH. The entity owed $396,116 to the Company under the expense sharing agreement at December 31, 2019, of which the entire balance was deemed unrecoverable and reserved. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company received payments from the entity in the amount of $63,985 and recorded recovery of the bad debt allowance of $63,985. The balance owed to the Company under this expense sharing agreement as of December 31, 2020 is $332,131 of which the entire balance is deemed unrecoverable and is reserved.