Number of employees withholding tax obligations.

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- Definition

Amount of cash outflow to satisfy an employee's income tax withholding obligation as part of a net-share settlement of a share-based award.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 718
-SubTopic 10
-Section 25
-Paragraph 19A
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=96949009&loc=SL79513924-113897

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 15
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3291-108585

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- Definition

The number of restricted shares issued as compensation, net of shares for the payment of withholding taxes. This element is to be used only if shares are used in lieu of cash to satisfy all or a portion of withholding taxes.

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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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- Definition

Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks of a company.

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- Definition

For net-share settlement of share-based awards when the employer settles employees' income tax withholding obligations, this element represents the number of shares the employees use to repay the employer.

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Stock Plans and Other Incentives - Changes in RSUs (Parenthetical) (Detail)	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2016 USD ($) Employee shares	Sep. 30, 2017 $ / shares	Sep. 30, 2016 $ / shares
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Closing stock price \| $ / shares		$ 18.00	$ 20.46
RSU [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Number of common stock used to settle minimum employee withholding tax obligations	32,760
Number of employees withholding tax obligations \| Employee	29
Employee withholding tax obligations approximate amount \| $	$ 701,000
Common stock delivered, net	52,421