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Accounts Receivable Discount Programs (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2017
Accounts Receivable Discount Programs [Abstract] |
Schedule of accounts receivable discount programs | The following is a summary of the Company’s accounts receivable discount programs:
|  | Years Ended March 31, |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Receivables discounted |  | $ | 352,369,000 |  |  | $ | 331,176,000 |
Weighted average days |  |  | 342 |  |  |  | 341 |
Weighted average discount rate |  |  | 2.9 | % |  |  | 2.3 | %
Amount of discount as interest expense |  | $ | 9,724,000 |  |  | $ | 7,257,000 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of accounts receivable factored out to banks. Disclosure includes amounts factored, weighted average days, weighted average discount rate and amount of discount. + References No definition available. + Details
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