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Earnings Per Share Attributable to Matthews Shareholders (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2014
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 |  |  | Nine Months Ended |
|  | June 30, |  |  | June 30, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |  |  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Net income attributable to Matthews shareholders |  | $ | 19,263 |  |  | $ | 17,991 |  |  | $ | 38,510 |  |  | $ | 40,438 |
Less: dividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities |  |  | 35 |  |  |  | 178 |  |  |  | 128 |  |  |  | 438 |
Net income available to Matthews shareholders |  | $ | 19,228 |  |  | $ | 17,813 |  |  | $ | 38,382 |  |  | $ | 40,000 |
Weighted-average shares outstanding (in thousands): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic shares |  |  | 27,294 |  |  |  | 27,299 |  |  |  | 27,223 |  |  |  | 27,303 |
Effect of dilutive securities |  |  | 197 |  |  |  | 161 |  |  |  | 227 |  |  |  | 116 |
Diluted shares |  |  | 27,491 |  |  |  | 27,460 |  |  |  | 27,450 |  |  |  | 27,419 |

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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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