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Earnings Per Share Attributable to Matthews Shareholders (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Earnings Per Share Attributable to Matthews' Shareholders [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:
|  | Three Months Ended |
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
Net income attributable to Matthews shareholders |  | $ | 7,914 |  |  | $ | 8,255 |
Less: dividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities |  |  | 41 |  |  |  | 97 |
Net income available to Matthews shareholders |  | $ | 7,873 |  |  | $ | 8,158 |
Weighted-average shares outstanding (in thousands): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic shares |  |  | 27,125 |  |  |  | 27,275 |
Effect of dilutive securities |  |  | 227 |  |  |  | 114 |
Diluted shares |  |  | 27,352 |  |  |  | 27,389 |

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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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