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Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | 3 Months Ended
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Dec. 30, 2017
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income [Abstract] |
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss | Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss The following tables summarize the changes in accumulated balances of other comprehensive loss for the periods presented:
| Three Months Ended December 30, 2017
| Foreign Currency Translation |  | Marketable Securities |  | Pension Plans |  | Hedged Interest Rate Caps |  | Total
Beginning Balance | $ | (18.5 | ) |  | $ | (0.4 | ) |  | $ | (1.6 | ) |  | $ | 4.3 |  |  | $ | (16.2 | )
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | 5.5 |  |  | — |  |  | 0.6 |  |  | (4.3 | ) |  | 1.8 |
Amounts reclassified to statement of income | — |  |  | 0.4 |  |  | — |  |  | 2.3 |  |  | 2.7 |
Ending Balance | $ | (13.0 | ) |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | (1.0 | ) |  | $ | 2.3 |  |  | $ | (11.7 | )
| Three Months Ended December 31, 2016
| Foreign Currency Translation |  | Marketable Securities |  | Pension Plans |  | Hedged Interest Rate Caps |  | Total
Beginning Balance | $ | (26.1 | ) |  | $ | (0.3 | ) |  | $ | (2.5 | ) |  | $ | (3.4 | ) |  | $ | (32.3 | )
Other comprehensive income (loss) before reclassifications | (15.7 | ) |  | 2.3 |  |  | — |  |  | 0.7 |  |  | (12.7 | )
Amounts reclassified to statement of income | — |  |  | 0.1 |  |  | — |  |  | 2.1 |  |  | 2.2 |
Ending Balance | $ | (41.8 | ) |  | $ | 2.1 |  |  | $ | (2.5 | ) |  | $ | (0.6 | ) |  | $ | (42.8 | )
In the first quarter of fiscal 2017, one of the Company's cost-method equity investments became a marketable security, and the Company recorded the increase in value on a gross basis of $4.0 million to other comprehensive income.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for comprehensive income, which includes, but is not limited to, 1) the amount of income tax expense or benefit allocated to each component of other comprehensive income, including reclassification adjustments, 2) the reclassification adjustments for each classification of other comprehensive income and 3) the ending accumulated balances for each component of comprehensive income. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134417 + Details
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