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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies - Additional Information (Detail) (USD $) | 1 Months Ended | 3 Months Ended |  |  |  |
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Jan. 31, 2014 | Mar. 31, 2014 | Mar. 31, 2013 | Jan. 24, 2014 | Dec. 31, 2013 | Mar. 19, 2013 | Feb. 28, 2013
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Percentage of revenues and operating costs generated in foreign operations |  | 99.40% | 99.70% |  |  |  |
Long-lived assets and goodwill located in the foreign operations |  | $ 176,636,954 |  |  | $ 183,922,432 |  |
Exchange rate used to re-measure transactions | 6.52 | 10.7 |  |  | 8.00 | 6.30 | 6.3
Foreign currency loss |  |  | 6,400,000 |  |  |  |
Foreign exchange rate |  | 10.1 |  | 10.0 |  |  |
Exchange rate used to re-measure transactions |  | 49.81 |  |  |  |  |
Percentage of increase in exchange ratio | 23.00% |  |  |  |  |  |
Net assets decreased |  | 14,625,451 |  |  |  |  |
Recognize foreign currency gain |  | 4,597,510 |  |  |  |  |
Percentage on relief of total income tax |  | 60.00% |  |  |  |  |
Percentage of tax benefits obtained from software development law |  | from fiscal year 2008, the Company's Argentine subsidiary has been a beneficiary of a software development law. Part of the benefits obtained from being a beneficiary of the aforementioned law is a relief of 60% of total income tax determined in each year, thus resulting in an effective tax rate in Argentina lower than the income tax law statutory rate. The law expires in September of 2014. As a consequence, the effective tax rate for 2014 would be approximately 22% as we expect no income tax holiday during last quarter of fiscal year 2014. |  |  |  |  |
Effective tax rate |  | 22.00% |  |  |  |  |
Aggregate tax benefit, total |  | $ 2,102,342 | $ 2,493,849 |  |  |  |
Aggregate per share effect of the Argentine tax holiday |  | $ 0.05 | $ 0.06 |  |  |  |
Venezuelan Subsidiaries [Member] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items] |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Percentage of consolidated net assets |  | 21.10% |  |  |  |  |
Percentage of consolidated cash and investments |  | 8.70% |  |  |  |  |

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