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Capitalized Interest (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2015
Interest Costs Incurred [Abstract] |
Rollforward of capitalized interest | The following table summarizes the Company’s interest costs incurred, capitalized and expensed during the three months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014:
|  | Three Months Ended December 31,
|  | 2015 |  | 2014
|  | (In millions)
Capitalized interest, beginning of period |  | $ | 208.0 |  |  | $ | 198.5 |
Interest incurred (1) |  | 42.2 |  |  | 40.4 |
Interest expensed: |  |  |  |
Charged to cost of sales |  | (35.2 | ) |  | (33.6 | )
Written off with inventory impairments |  | — |  |  | (0.1 | )
Capitalized interest, end of period |  | $ | 215.0 |  |  | $ | 205.2 |
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(1) | Interest incurred includes interest incurred on the Company's financial services mortgage repurchase facility of $1.6 million in both the three months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014.

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