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Other Liabilities | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Other Liabilities |
Other Liabilities | Note 14. Other liabilities
|  | At September 30,
|  | 2015 |  | 2014
Net accrued retirement benefits, less amounts recognized within accrued liabilities |  | $ | 55,259 |  | $ | 38,850
Total unrecognized tax benefits, net of offsetting adjustments |  |  | 15,394 |  |  | 14,707
Acquired performance obligations and unfavorable contracts (1) |  |  | 4,656 |  |  | 12,792
Deferred economic incentives (2) |  |  | 19,163 |  |  | 18,408
Other |  |  | 21,718 |  |  | 16,454
|  | $ | 116,190 |  | $ | 101,211
| (1) |  | For more information about acquired performance obligations and unfavorable contracts, see Note 4, Joint ventures and business acquisitions, under the section Business acquisition. The long-term portion of both obligations is included in “Other liabilities” as of September 30, 2014. As of September 30, 2015, “Other liabilities” includes the long-term portion of the acquired unfavorable contracts as only a current portion of the acquired performance obligations remains.
| (2) |  | Woodward receives certain economic incentives from various state and local authorities related to capital expansion projects. Such amounts are initially recorded as deferred credits and will be recognized as a reduction to non-income tax expense over the economic lives of the related capital expansion projects.

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