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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 29, 2014
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) [Abstract] |
Summary of Basic and Diluted shares | The weighted-average number of common shares outstanding used to calculate basic net income per common share is reconciled to shares used to calculate diluted net income per common share as follows:
|  | Fiscal Years Ended
|  | March 29, 2014 |  | March 30, 2013 |  | March 31, 2012
Basic shares |  | 90.7 |  |  | 91.3 |  |  | 92.7 |
Dilutive effect of stock options, restricted stock, and RSUs |  | 1.3 |  |  | 2.4 |  |  | 2.8 |
Diluted shares |  | 92.0 |  |  | 93.7 |  |  | 95.5 |
Sales Returns and Allowances [Member] |
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) [Abstract] |
Rollforward of activity in the Company's allowance for doubtful accounts and its aggregate reserves for returns, discounts, end-of-season markdowns and operational chargebacks | A rollforward of the activity in the Company's reserves for returns, discounts, end-of-season markdowns, operational chargebacks, and certain cooperative advertising allowances is presented below:
|  | Fiscal Years Ended
|  | March 29, 2014 |  | March 30, 2013 |  | March 31, 2012
|  | (millions)
Beginning reserve balance |  | $ | 230 |  |  | $ | 247 |  |  | $ | 213 |
Amount charged against revenue to increase reserve |  | 783 |  |  | 707 |  |  | 650 |
Amount credited against customer accounts to decrease reserve |  | (764 | ) |  | (718 | ) |  | (611 | )
Foreign currency translation |  | 5 |  |  | (6 | ) |  | (5 | )
Ending reserve balance |  | $ | 254 |  |  | $ | 230 |  |  | $ | 247 |
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts [Member] |
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) [Abstract] |
Rollforward of activity in the Company's allowance for doubtful accounts and its aggregate reserves for returns, discounts, end-of-season markdowns and operational chargebacks | A rollforward of the activity in the Company's allowance for doubtful accounts is presented below:
|  | Fiscal Years Ended
|  | March 29, 2014 |  | March 30, 2013 |  | March 31, 2012
|  | (millions)
Beginning reserve balance |  | $ | 15 |  |  | $ | 16 |  |  | $ | 18 |
Amount recorded to expense to increase reserve(a) |  | 3 |  |  | 3 |  |  | 2 |
Amount written-off against customer accounts to decrease reserve |  | (3 | ) |  | (3 | ) |  | (3 | )
Foreign currency translation |  | 1 |  |  | (1 | ) |  | (1 | )
Ending reserve balance |  | $ | 16 |  |  | $ | 15 |  |  | $ | 16 |
(a) | Amounts recorded to bad debt expense are included within SG&A expenses in the consolidated statements of income.

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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