Long-term Debt and Capital Lease Obligations (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Long term debt instruments

The following table presents our long-term debt instruments and balances under capital lease obligations outstanding as of March 31, 2015 and 2014 and September 30, 2014. The non-recourse debt matures at various months in the years so indicated in the table below:

	March 31, 2015					March 31, 2014				September 30, 2014
	Carrying Amount		Debt (Discount) Premium			Carrying Amount		Debt Premium		Carrying Amount		Debt (Discount) Premium
	(in thousands)
Recourse to EZCORP:
Domestic line of credit up to $200 million due 2015	$	—	$	—		$	83,000	$	—	$	—	$	—
2.125% cash convertible senior notes due 2019	189,724		(40,276		)	—		—		185,693		(44,307		)
Cash convertible senior notes due 2019 embedded derivative	27,215		—			—		—		36,994		—
Capital lease obligations	93		—			639		—		418		—
Non-recourse to EZCORP:
Secured foreign currency debt up to $3 million due 2014	—		—			528		51		63		3
Secured foreign currency debt up to $9 million due 2014	—		—			—		—		86		—
Secured foreign currency debt up to $5 million due 2015	—		—			2,863		—		—		—
Secured foreign currency debt up to $19 million due 2015	—		—			2,616		—		—		—
Secured foreign currency debt up to $5 million due 2016	—		—			1,077		—		—		—
Secured foreign currency debt up to $16 million due 2016	2,495		—			—		—		4,796		—
Secured foreign currency debt up to $20 million due 2017	19,682		—			22,929		—		22,240		—
Consumer loans facility due 2019	47,826		—			55,715		—		54,045		—
10% unsecured notes due 2014	—		—			7,212		—		1,158		—
11% unsecured notes due 2014	—		—			110		—		—		—
9% unsecured notes due 2015	12,516		—			29,933		—		29,875		—
10% unsecured notes due 2015	—		—			696		—		943		—
11% unsecured notes due 2015	4,334		—			—		—		4,897		—
10% unsecured notes due 2016	844		—			121		—		118		—
13% unsecured notes due 2016	656		—			—		—		—		—
12% secured notes due 2016	2,691		67			—		—		3,881		174
12% secured notes due 2017	—		—			4,103		281		—		—
12% secured notes due 2019	—		—			17,579		—		—		—
12% secured notes due 2020	19,747		—			—		—		22,314		—
17% secured notes due 2015 consolidated from VIEs	937		—			6,850		—		3,207		—
15% secured notes due 2016 consolidated from VIEs	7,755		—			9,936		—		9,638		—
11% secured notes due 2017 consolidated from VIEs	66,139		—			—		—		14,982		—
11% secured notes due 2017 consolidated from VIEs	10,406		—			—		—		13,590		—
15% secured notes due 2017 consolidated from VIEs	14,897		—			—		—		19,645		—
Total	427,957		(40,209		)	245,907		332		428,583		(44,130		)
Less current portion	71,564		67			21,422		255		36,529		177
Total long-term debt and capital lease obligations	$	356,393	$	(40,276	)	$	224,485	$	77	$	392,054	$	(44,307	)