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EARNINGS PER SHARE (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2013
EARNINGS PER SHARE [Abstract] |
Information Used to Compute Earnings Per Share Attributable to Matthews' Common Shareholders | The information used to compute earnings per share attributable to Matthews’ common shareholders was as follows:
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
Net income attributable to Matthews shareholders |  | $ | 54,888 |  |  | $ | 55,843 |  |  | $ | 72,372 |
Less: dividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities |  |  | 583 |  |  |  | 861 |  |  |  | 1,420 |
Net income available to Matthews shareholders |  | $ | 54,305 |  |  | $ | 54,982 |  |  | $ | 70,952 |
Weighted-average shares outstanding (in thousands): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic shares |  |  | 27,255 |  |  |  | 27,753 |  |  |  | 28,775 |
Effect of dilutive securities |  |  | 168 |  |  |  | 86 |  |  |  | 37 |
Diluted shares |  |  | 27,423 |  |  |  | 27,839 |  |  |  | 28,812 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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