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Income Taxes (Narrative) (Details) (USD $)
3 Months Ended 6 Months Ended
Apr. 04, 2015
Jan. 03, 2015
Mar. 29, 2014
Apr. 04, 2015
Mar. 29, 2014
Sep. 30, 2014
Income Tax Disclosure [Line Items]            
Effective income tax rate (1293.00%)us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations   10.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations (3.00%)us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations 18.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations  
Income before income taxes $ 387,000us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest   $ 48,521,000us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest $ 34,794,000us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest $ 101,638,000us-gaap_IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest  
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation, Other Adjustments, Amount 4,000,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments     8,000,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationOtherAdjustments    
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, Increase Resulting from Prior Period Tax Positions 3,100,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIncreasesResultingFromPriorPeriodTaxPositions          
Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation, Tax Credit, Research, Amount   2,100,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxReconciliationTaxCreditsResearch        
Finite-lived Intangible Assets Acquired         32,100,000us-gaap_FinitelivedIntangibleAssetsAcquired1  
Deferred Tax Liabilities, Intangible Assets     8,900,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxLiabilitiesGoodwillAndIntangibleAssetsIntangibleAssets   8,900,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxLiabilitiesGoodwillAndIntangibleAssetsIntangibleAssets  
Valuation Allowance, Deferred Tax Asset, Increase (Decrease), Amount         8,900,000us-gaap_ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount  
Unrecognized tax benefits 11,100,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits     11,100,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits   15,000,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefits
Income tax provision upon recognition of unrecognized tax benefit 9,700,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsThatWouldImpactEffectiveTaxRate     9,700,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsThatWouldImpactEffectiveTaxRate    
Unrecognized tax benefits that would impact valuation allowance 3,100,000pmtc_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsThatWouldImpactEffectiveTaxRateResultingChangeInValuationAllowance     3,100,000pmtc_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsThatWouldImpactEffectiveTaxRateResultingChangeInValuationAllowance    
Potentail reduction in unrecognized tax benefits and accrued interest over next 12 months (4,000,000)us-gaap_SignificantChangeInUnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIsReasonablyPossibleAmountOfUnrecordedBenefit     (4,000,000)us-gaap_SignificantChangeInUnrecognizedTaxBenefitsIsReasonablyPossibleAmountOfUnrecordedBenefit    
Adjustments to additional paid in capital, income tax benefit from share-based compensation     $ 1,300,000us-gaap_AdjustmentsToAdditionalPaidInCapitalTaxEffectFromShareBasedCompensation   $ 8,100,000us-gaap_AdjustmentsToAdditionalPaidInCapitalTaxEffectFromShareBasedCompensation