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Available-for-Sale Securities - Interest-bearing Investments in Available-for-Sale Securities (Parenthetical) (Detail) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2015	Sep. 30, 2014
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]
Available-for-sale securities	$ 801,682	$ 977,639
Short Term Investments [Member]
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]
Available-for-sale securities	$ 318,439	321,196
Maturity period of short term interest-bearing securities included in cash and cash equivalents	Longer than 90 days
Cash and Cash Equivalents [Member]
Schedule of Available-for-sale Securities [Line Items]
Available-for-sale securities	$ 483,243	$ 656,443
Maturity period of short term interest-bearing securities included in cash and cash equivalents	90 days or less

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Amount of investment in debt and equity securities categorized neither as held-to-maturity nor trading.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 320
-SubTopic 10
-Section 25
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