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Accounts Receivable Discount Programs (Details) (USD $)	9 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2013	Dec. 31, 2012
Accounts Receivable Discount Programs [Abstract]
Receivables discounted	$ 155,739,000	$ 143,694,000
Weighted average days	336 days	336 days
Annualized weighted average discount rate (in hundredths)	2.30%	2.70%
Amount of discount as interest expense	$ 3,280,000	$ 3,617,000

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The amount of customers' receivable balances that have been sold to the customers' respective banks at a discount during the period.

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Represents the weighted average discount rate, on an annualized basis, on the accounts receivable balances sold during the period.

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Represents the weighted average number of days these discount arrangements have allowed the Company to accelerate collection of discounted accounts receivable balances during the period.

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The amount of the discount on accounts receivable balances sold that was recorded as interest expense during the period.

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