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Earnings Per Share Attributable to Matthews' Shareholders (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
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 |  |  | Six Months Ended |
|  | March 31, |  |  | March 31, |
|  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |  |  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |
Net income attributable to Matthews shareholders |  | $ | 9,576 |  |  | $ | 11,333 |  |  | $ | 24,527 |  |  | $ | 19,247 |
Less: dividends and undistributed earnings allocated to participating securities |  |  | 1 |  |  |  | 23 |  |  |  | 5 |  |  |  | 74 |
Net income available to Matthews shareholders |  | $ | 9,575 |  |  | $ | 11,310 |  |  | $ | 24,522 |  |  | $ | 19,173 |
Weighted-average shares outstanding (in thousands): |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Basic shares |  |  | 32,970 |  |  |  | 27,276 |  |  |  | 32,940 |  |  |  | 27,193 |
Effect of dilutive securities |  |  | 212 |  |  |  | 194 |  |  |  | 244 |  |  |  | 231 |
Diluted shares |  |  | 33,182 |  |  |  | 27,470 |  |  |  | 33,184 |  |  |  | 27,424 |

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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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