Share-based Compensation (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Disclosure of Share-based Compensation Arrangements by Share-based Payment Award

The Company granted the following equity awards to employees and non-employee directors under the 2007 Equity Incentive Compensation Plan during the three months ended December 31, 2014:



	Granted	Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value		Weighted-Average Exercise Price
Non-qualified stock options	340,680	$	47.85	$	249.86
Restricted stock awards ("RSAs")	425,628	$	249.86
Restricted stock units ("RSUs")	178,594	$	249.86
Performance-based shares⁽¹⁾	196,471	$	279.14


⁽¹⁾	Represents the maximum number of performance-based shares which could be earned.

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of a stock option or other award plan under which equity-based compensation is awarded to employees, typically comprised of the amount of unearned compensation (deferred compensation cost), compensation expense, and changes in the quantity and fair value of the shares (or other type of equity) granted, exercised, forfeited, and issued and outstanding pertaining to that plan. Disclosure may also include nature and general terms of such arrangements that existed during the period and potential effects of those arrangements on shareholders, effect of compensation cost arising from equity-based payment arrangements on the income statement, method of estimating the fair value of the goods or services received, or the fair value of the equity instruments granted, during the period, cash flow effects resulting from equity-based payment arrangements and, for registrants that accelerate vesting of out of the money share options, reasons for the decision to accelerate.

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