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Accounts Receivable Discount Programs

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Accounts Receivable Discount Programs [Abstract]

Accounts Receivable Discount Programs

12. Accounts Receivable Discount Programs

The Company uses receivable discount programs with certain major 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 programs allow the Company to accelerate collection of customers’ receivables.

The following is a summary of the Company’s accounts receivable discount programs:

		Years Ended March 31,
		2016				2015
Receivables discounted		$	331,176,000			$	260,973,000
Weighted average days			341				336
Weighted average discount rate			2.3	%			2.0	%
Amount of discount as interest expense		$	7,257,000			$	4,917,000

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Describes the nature of the entity's non-recourse receivable discount programs with its customers and their respective banks.

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