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Stock-Based Employee Benefit Plans - Assumptions Used to Estimate Fair Value of Market Stock Units (Details) | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2017 | Sep. 30, 2016 | Sep. 30, 2015
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |  |
Average expected dividend yield | 0.07% | 0.09% | 0.14%
Market stock units (MSUs) |  |  |
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items] |  |  |
Expected volatility in FICO’s stock price | 27.40% | 24.10% | 26.60%
Expected volatility in Russell 3000 Index | 13.60% | 12.80% | 12.20%
Correlation between FICO and the Russell 3000 Index | 59.80% | 60.20% | 55.90%
Risk-free interest rate | 1.40% | 1.25% | 1.10%
Average expected dividend yield | 0.07% | 0.09% | 0.14%

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- Definition The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (f)(2)(iii) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=96867065&loc=d3e5070-113901 + Details
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- Definition The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (f)(2)(ii) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=96867065&loc=d3e5070-113901 + Details
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- Definition The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (f)(2)(iv) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=96867065&loc=d3e5070-113901 + Details
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