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Additional Financial Information (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2018
Additional Financial Information [Abstract] |
Schedule of Other Assets | The composition of the Company’s other assets is as follows as of June 30, 2018 and March 31, 2018:
| June 30, 2018 |  | March 31, 2018
| (Amounts in millions)
Other current assets |  |  |
Prepaid expenses and other | $ | 66.9 |  |  | $ | 34.1 |
Product inventory | 19.7 |  |  | 20.3 |
Tax credits receivable | 112.1 |  |  | 141.4 |
| $ | 198.7 |  |  | $ | 195.8 |
Other non-current assets |  |  |
Prepaid expenses and other | $ | 53.3 |  |  | $ | 23.8 |
Accounts receivable | 285.8 |  |  | 325.2 |
Tax credits receivable | 114.2 |  |  | 109.6 |
| $ | 453.3 |  |  | $ | 458.6 |
Supplemental Schedule of Non-Cash Investing Activities | The supplemental schedule of non-cash investing activities is presented below:
| Three Months Ended June 30,
| 2018 |  | 2017
| (Amounts in millions)
Non-cash investing activities: |  |  |
Common shares related to business acquisitions (see Note 2) | $ | 83.7 |  |  | $ | — |
Non-cash financing activities: |  |  |
Accrued dividends | $ | 19.2 |  |  | $ | — |

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