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CONTRACTS IN PROGRESS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2018
Recognised Revenue From Construction Contracts [Abstract] |
Disclosure of revenue from contracts with customers |
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Contracts in progress: assets |  | $ | 401.6 |  |  | $ | 337.5 |
Contracts in progress: liabilities |  | (161.8 | ) |  | (191.9 | )
Contracts in progress: net assets |  | $ | 239.8 |  |  | $ | 145.6 |
Details of contracts in progress are as follows:
|  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Aggregate amount of costs incurred plus recognized |  |  |  |  |  |
profits (less recognized losses) to date |  | $ | 2,694.6 |  |  | $ | 2,800.1 |
Less: progress billings |  | 2,454.8 |  |  | 2,654.5 |
Contracts in progress: net assets |  | $ | 239.8 |  |  | $ | 145.6 |

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