Share-based Compensation (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2012

Disclosure of Share-based Compensation Arrangements by Share-based Payment Award

The Company granted the following awards to employees and non-employee directors under the 2007 Equity Incentive Compensation Plan during the nine months ended June 30, 2012:



	Granted	Weighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value		Weighted-Average Exercise Price
Non-qualified stock options	441,191	$	29.65	$	93.22
Restricted stock awards ("RSA")	937,422	95.10
Restricted stock units ("RSU")	426,653	96.51
Performance-based shares⁽¹⁾	66,114	97.84


⁽¹⁾	The ultimate number of performance shares to be earned will be between zero and 132,227, depending on a combination of service, performance and market conditions.

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of a stock option or other award plan under which equity-based compensation is awarded to employees, typically comprised of the amount of unearned compensation (deferred compensation cost), compensation expense, and changes in the quantity and fair value of the shares (or other type of equity) granted, exercised, forfeited, and issued and outstanding pertaining to that plan. Disclosure may also include nature and general terms of such arrangements that existed during the period and potential effects of those arrangements on shareholders, effect of compensation cost arising from equity-based payment arrangements on the income statement, method of estimating the fair value of the goods or services received, or the fair value of the equity instruments granted, during the period, cash flow effects resulting from equity-based payment arrangements and, for registrants that accelerate vesting of out of the money share options, reasons for the decision to accelerate.

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