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Accounts Receivable Discount Programs | 9 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Accounts Receivable Discount Programs [Abstract] |
Accounts Receivable Discount Programs | 9. Accounts Receivable Discount Programs Both of the Company's segments use receivable discount programs with certain customers and their respective banks. Under these programs, the Company may sell those customers' receivables to those banks at a discount to be agreed upon at the time the receivables are sold. These discount arrangements allow the Company to accelerate collection of customers' receivables. The following is a summary of the Company's accounts receivable discount programs:
|  | Nine Months Ended |
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
Receivables discounted |  | $ | 229,314,000 |  |  | $ | 197,019,000 |
Weighted average days |  |  | 316 |  |  |  | 314 |
Annualized weighted average discount rate |  |  | 2.8 | % |  |  | 2.9 | %
Amount of discount as interest expense |  | $ | 5,525,000 |  |  | $ | 4,984,000 |

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