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Significant Accounting Policies
 6 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Significant Accounting Policies [Abstract]  
Significant Accounting Policies
Note 2: Significant Accounting Policies

Revision of prior period financial statements:  As described in Note 1 and Note 26 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Modine's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended March 31, 2012, the quarterly results for fiscal 2012 have been revised as a result of errors identified during fiscal 2012 that were not considered material individually or in the aggregate to previously issued financial statements but were considered significant to the quarters in which they were identified.  For the three months ended September 30, 2011, cost of sales decreased $355, gross profit increased $355, selling, general and administrative expenses increased $101, other expense – net increased $197, provision for income taxes decreased $318 and earnings from continuing operations increased $375 as a result of the revisions.  Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations and diluted net earnings per share increased $0.01 for the three months ended September 30, 2011 as a result of these revisions.  For the six months ended September 30, 2011, cost of sales decreased $726, gross profit increased $726, selling, general and administrative expenses increased $207, provision for income taxes increased $694 and earnings from continuing operations decreased $175 as a result of the revisions.  Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations and diluted net earnings per share were unchanged for the six months ended September 30, 2011 as a result of these revisions.
 
Out of period adjustment:  During the first quarter of fiscal 2013, the Company identified an error related to certain commodity hedges that should have been deemed ineffective in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, which understated pre-tax earnings by $542 in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, and overstated pre-tax earnings by this same amount in the first quarter of fiscal 2013.  This amount was not considered material to the financial statements of either the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 or the first six months of fiscal 2013.

New accounting pronouncements:  In June 2011, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an amendment to the accounting guidance for the presentation of comprehensive income. This amendment removes one of the three presentation options for presenting the components of other comprehensive income as part of the statement of changes in shareholders' equity and requires either a single continuous statement of net income and other comprehensive income or a two consecutive statement approach.  The Company adopted this guidance beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2013 with the two consecutive statement approach.

In September 2011, the FASB issued an amendment to the accounting guidance for testing goodwill for impairment.  The amendment provides an option for companies to first use a qualitative approach to test goodwill for impairment if certain conditions are met.  If it is determined to be more likely than not that the fair value of the reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, entities must perform the quantitative analysis of the goodwill impairment test.  The amendment is effective for the Company's upcoming fiscal 2013 goodwill impairment test.  The Company is assessing this new guidance and does not anticipate any impact on its consolidated financial statements from the adoption of this amendment.