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Accounts Receivable - Net
 12 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Accounts Receivable - Net [Abstract]  
Accounts Receivable - Net
6. Accounts Receivable — Net

Included in accounts receivable — net are significant offset accounts related to customer allowances earned (see Note 15), customer payment discrepancies, returned goods authorizations (“RGA”) issued for in-transit unit returns, estimated future credits to be provided for Used Cores returned by the customers (see Note 2) and potential bad debts. Due to the forward looking nature and the different aging periods of certain estimated offset accounts, they may not, at any point in time, directly relate to the balances in the accounts receivable—trade account.
 
Accounts receivable — net is comprised of the following at March 31:

  
2016
  
2015
 
Accounts receivable — trade
 
$
62,206,000
  
$
62,171,000
 
Allowance for bad debts
  
(4,284,000
)
  
(629,000
)
Customer allowances earned
  
(12,029,000
)
  
(7,221,000
)
Customer payment discrepancies
  
(703,000
)
  
(852,000
)
Customer returns RGA issued
  
(6,561,000
)
  
(7,029,000
)
Customer core returns accruals
  
(30,081,000
)
  
(21,641,000
)
Less: total accounts receivable offset accounts
  
(53,658,000
)
  
(37,372,000
)
         
Total accounts receivable — net
 
$
8,548,000
  
$
24,799,000
 

Warranty Returns

The Company allows its customers to return goods to the Company that their end-user customers have returned to them, whether the returned item is or is not defective (warranty returns). The Company accrues an estimate of its exposure to warranty returns based on a historical analysis of the level of this type of return as a percentage of total unit sales. Amounts charged to expense for these warranty returns are considered in arriving at the Company’s net sales. At March 31, 2016 and 2015, the Company’s total warranty return accrual was $10,845,000 and $10,904,000, respectively, of which $4,612,000 and $3,746,000, respectively, was included in the customer returns RGA issued balance in the above table for expected credits to be issued against accounts receivable and $6,233,000 and $7,158,000, respectively, was included in the customer finished goods returns accrual (see Note 2) in the consolidated balance sheets for estimated future warranty returns.

The following summarizes the change in the Company’s warranty return accrual:

  
Years Ended March 31,
 
  
2016
  
2015
  
2014
 
Balance at beginning of period
 
$
10,904,000
  
$
8,039,000
  
$
6,205,000
 
Charged to expense
  
80,099,000
   
65,469,000
   
56,284,000
 
Amounts processed
  
(80,158,000
)
  
(62,604,000
)
  
(54,450,000
)
             
Balance at end of period
 
$
10,845,000
  
$
10,904,000
  
$
8,039,000