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Accounts Receivable Discount Programs (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Accounts Receivable Discount Programs [Abstract] |
Schedule of accounts receivable discount programs | The following is a summary of the Company’s accounts receivable discount programs from its continuing operations:
|  | Years Ended March 31, |
|  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |
Receivables discounted |  | $ | 260,973,000 |  |  | $ | 210,752,000 |
Weighted average days |  |  | 336 |  |  |  | 337 |
Weighted average discount rate |  |  | 2.0 | % |  |  | 2.2 | %
Amount of discount as interest expense |  | $ | 4,917,000 |  |  | $ | 4,336,000 |

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