Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Long term debt instruments

The following table presents our long-term debt instruments and balances under capital lease obligations outstanding at December 31, 2013 and 2012 and September 30, 2013. The recourse line of credit is due in May 2015, the non-recourse debt matures at various months in the years so indicated in the table below:

	December 31, 2013				December 31, 2012				September 30, 2013
	Carrying Amount		Debt Premium		Carrying Amount		Debt Premium		Carrying Amount		Debt Premium
	(in thousands)
Recourse to EZCORP:
Domestic line of credit up to $200 million due 2015	$	146,500	$	—	$	142,600	$	—	$	140,900	$	—
Capital lease obligations	786		—		1,304		—		924		—
Non-recourse to EZCORP:
Unsecured, variable interest foreign currency line of credit	—		—		38		—		—		—
Secured foreign currency line of credit up to $4 million due 2014	871		76		2,256		173		1,207		99
Secured foreign currency line of credit up to $19 million due 2015	4,138		—		14,146		—		6,281		—
Secured foreign currency line of credit up to $5 million due 2016	4,867		—		—		—		—		—
Secured foreign currency line of credit up to $23 million due 2017	22,962		—		17,212		—		22,822		—
Consumer loans facility due 2017	32,147		—		32,338		—		31,951		—
10% unsecured notes due 2013	—		—		937		—		503		—
15% unsecured notes due 2013	—		—		13,844		1,052		12,884		244
10% unsecured notes due 2014	7,703		—		2,257		—		8,925		—
11% unsecured notes due 2014	110		—		5,086		—		110		—
9% unsecured notes due 2015	16,546		—		—		—		16,068		—
10% unsecured notes due 2015	420		—		314		—		418		—
15% secured notes due 2015	—		—		4,390		539		4,185		381
10% unsecured notes due 2016	121		—		122		—		121		—
12% secured notes due 2017	4,160		333		—		—		—		—
12% unsecured notes due 2019	11,481		—		—		—		—		—
Total long-term obligations	252,812		409		236,844		1,764		247,299		724
Less current portion	17,270		280		28,095		1,353		30,969		543
Total long-term and capital lease obligations	$	235,542	$	129	$	208,749	$	411	$	216,330	$	181