Finance Receivables - Selected information on entire portfolio of Company(Details 1) - Contract	9 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Contract Portfolio
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Weighted APR	22.43%	22.71%
Weighted average discount	7.48%	7.70%
Weighted average term (months)	57 months	56 months
Number of active contracts	37,834	38,013
Direct Loan Portfolio
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Weighted APR	25.69%	25.75%
Weighted average term (months)	33 months	32 months
Number of active contracts	3,023	3,185

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Period the instrument, asset or liability is expected to be outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (bbb)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66048111&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Rate at which loans or a loan portfolio are expected to prepay principal balances, used as an input to measure fair value.

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