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SHARE-BASED PAYMENTS - Assumptions (Details) - $ / shares | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2023 | Mar. 31, 2022
Share-based Payment Arrangements [Abstract] |  |
Common share price (in dollars per share) | $ 30.87 | $ 37.24
Exercise price (in dollars per share) | $ 32.92 | $ 36.79
Dividend yield (in percent) | 0.65% | 0.64%
Expected volatility (in percent) | 42.12% | 40.51%
Risk free interest rate (in percent) | 3.30% | 0.76%
Expected stock option life (in years) | 4 years 6 months | 4 years

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- Definition The expected volatility of the share price used to calculate the fair value of the share options granted. Expected volatility is a measure of the amount by which a price is expected to fluctuate during a period. The measure of volatility used in option pricing models is the annualised standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a period of time. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2022-03-24 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI https://taxonomy.ifrs.org/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2022-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2022-03-24 + Details
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- Definition The implied yield currently available on zero-coupon government issues of the country in whose currency the exercise price for share options granted is expressed, with a remaining term equal to the expected term of the option being valued (based on the option's remaining contractual life and taking into account the effects of expected early exercise). [Refer: Government [member]] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2022-03-24 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI https://taxonomy.ifrs.org/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2022-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2022-03-24 + Details
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- Definition The exercise price of share options granted. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2022-03-24 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI https://taxonomy.ifrs.org/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2022-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2022-03-24 + Details
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- Definition The percentage of an expected dividend used to calculate the fair value of share options granted. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2022-03-24 -Paragraph 47 -Subparagraph a -Clause i -URI https://taxonomy.ifrs.org/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2022-en-r&anchor=para_47_a_i&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2022-03-24 + Details
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- Definition The weighted average exercise price of share options granted in a share-based payment arrangement. [Refer: Weighted average [member]] + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef -Name IFRS -Number 2 -IssueDate 2022-03-24 -Paragraph 45 -Subparagraph b -Clause ii -URI https://taxonomy.ifrs.org/xifrs-link?type=IFRS&num=2&code=ifrs-tx-2022-en-r&anchor=para_45_b_ii&doctype=Standard -URIDate 2022-03-24 + Details
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