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DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION EXPENSE | 3 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract] |
Pension and Other Postretirement Benefits Disclosure [Text Block] | NOTE 12 – DEFINED BENEFIT PENSION EXPENSE Defined benefit pension expense was as follows:
|  | Three Months Ended December 31, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
Service cost |  | $ | 45 |  |  | $ | 50 |
Interest cost |  |  | 2,500 |  |  |  | 2,425 |
Expected return on plan assets |  |  | (2,885 | ) |  |  | (3,138 | )
Amortization: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Prior service cost |  |  | 4 |  |  |  | 5 |
Recognized actuarial loss |  |  | 489 |  |  |  | 840 |
Loss on pension settlement |  |  | — |  |  |  | 2,142 |
Net periodic expense |  | $ | 153 |  |  | $ | 2,324 |
First quarter of 2013, Selling, general and administrative expenses included a $2,142, non-cash, pension settlement loss resulting from the lump-sum buyout of certain participant’s balances in the Company’s defined benefit plan. The buyouts, funded by the pension plan, reduced the Company’s net pension liability by $3,472 and increased Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss) by $3,649.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for pension and other postretirement benefits. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 715 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2235017 + Details
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