Noncontrolling Interest, Additional Ownership Percentage Purchased by Parent

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Payments to Maintain Interest in Subsidiary

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 805
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)
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The equity interest of noncontrolling shareholders, partners or other equity holders in consolidated entity.

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The parent entity's interest in net assets of the subsidiary, expressed as a percentage.

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The cash outflow associated with the purchase of noncontrolling interest during the period.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 13
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=56944662&loc=d3e3213-108585

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Acquisitions - Grupo Finmart (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	Aug. 31, 2015	Jun. 30, 2014	Apr. 01, 2013	Sep. 30, 2015	Jan. 30, 2012
Grupo Finmart [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Payments to maintain interest in subsidiary			$ 9.2
Ownership interest in subsidiaries	94.00%	76.00%	60.00%	94.00%
Additional ownership interest acquired	18.00%	16.00%
Payments to acquire additional interest in subsidiaries	$ 29.6	$ 28.7
Ownership percentage by noncontrolling owners	6.00%
Grupo Finmart [Member]
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Acquisition interest					60.00%