Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2014

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Long term debt instruments

The following table presents our long-term debt instruments and balances under capital lease obligations outstanding at March 31, 2014 and 2013 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:

	March 31, 2014				March 31, 2013				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	$	83,000	$	—	$	74,000	$	—	$	140,900	$	—
Capital lease obligations	639		—		1,181		—		924		—
Non-recourse to EZCORP:
Secured foreign currency line of credit up to $4 million due 2014	528		51		2,009		156		1,207		99
Secured foreign currency line of credit up to $19 million due 2015	2,616		—		12,142		—		6,281		—
Secured foreign currency line of credit up to $5 million due 2015	2,863		—		—		—		—		—
Secured foreign currency line of credit up to $5 million due 2016	1,077		—		—		—		—		—
Secured foreign currency line of credit up to $23 million due 2017	22,929		—		22,352		—		22,822		—
Consumer loans facility due 2017	—		—		33,995		—		31,951		—
Consumer loans facility due 2019	55,715		—		—		—		—		—
10% unsecured notes due 2013	—		—		664		—		503		—
15% unsecured notes due 2013	—		—		14,273		825		12,884		244
10% unsecured notes due 2014	7,212		—		2,373		—		8,925		—
11% unsecured notes due 2014	110		—		5,347		—		110		—
9% unsecured notes due 2015	29,933		—		—		—		16,068		—
10% unsecured notes due 2015	696		—		444		—		418		—
15% secured notes due 2015	—		—		4,561		513		4,185		381
10% unsecured notes due 2016	121		—		128		—		121		—
12% secured notes due 2017	4,103		281		—		—		—		—
12% secured notes due 2019	17,579		—		—		—		—		—
Total long-term obligations	229,121		332		173,469		1,494		247,299		724
Less current portion	14,761		255		35,445		1,141		30,969		543
Total long-term and capital lease obligations	$	214,360	$	77	$	138,024	$	353	$	216,330	$	181