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The percentage of a share-based payment award that vests in year one.

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The carrying amount of the liability as of the balance sheet date to an individual under a deferred compensation arrangement. This amount may be the result of periodic accruals made over the period of active employment, or reflect termination benefits resulting contractual terms or a death benefit.

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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The number of grants made during the period on other than stock (or unit) option plans (for example, phantom stock or unit plan, stock or unit appreciation rights plan, performance target plan).

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Number of shares issued during the period as a result of an employee stock purchase plan.

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	Sep. 30, 2012	Sep. 30, 2012 2010 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)	Mar. 31, 2012 2010 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)	Jun. 03, 2010 Chief Executive Officer Market Based Award	Mar. 08, 2011 Chief Executive Officer Performance Based Award	Mar. 23, 2012 Chief Executive Officer Performance Based Award	Jun. 03, 2010 Chief Executive Officer Performance Based Award	Mar. 31, 2012 Other Executive Officers component	Mar. 31, 2012 Other Executive Officers Performance Based Award	May 15, 2012 Other Executive Officers Apex Systems component	May 15, 2012 Other Executive Officers Apex Systems Performance Based Award	May 15, 2012 Company Employees Apex Systems installment	Mar. 05, 2012 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) Chief Executive Officer Performance Based Award component	Jan. 03, 2012 Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) Chief Executive Officer Performance Based Award
Deferred Compensation Arrangement with Individual, Share-based Payments
Share-based awards, grant date fair market value				$ 0.5	$ 1.0	$ 1.5	$ 0.5	$ 1.7		$ 0.8		$ 12.3	$ 0.6	$ 0.8
Share-based awards expense, service period				2 years 7 months 6 days	9 months 27 days 9 hours
Liability for share-based awards	2.5
Share-based awards, grants in period												760,788	45,372	72,596
Share-based awards, number of equal vesting components								3		3			2
Share-based awards, amount of equal vesting components								0.9		0.6			0.3
Share-based awards, amount of final vesting component									$ 0.8		$ 0.2
Employee stock purchase plan shares issued during period		46,770	108,164
Share-based awards, vesting percentage in year one												25.00%
Share-based awards, number of quarterly vesting installments												12