FAIR VALUE (Details) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2016	Mar. 31, 2016
Fair Value Disclosures [Abstract]
Loans and Leases Receivable, Average Loan Period	8 months
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Senior notes payable	$ 360,360,000	$ 374,685,000
Reported Value Measurement [Member] \| Senior notes payable [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Senior notes payable	360,360,000	374,685,000
Estimate of Fair Value Measurement [Member] \| Senior notes payable [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Senior notes payable	360,360,000	374,685,000
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 1 [Member] \| Reported Value Measurement [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Cash and Cash Equivalents, Fair Value Disclosure	10,123,775	12,377,024
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 1 [Member] \| Estimate of Fair Value Measurement [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Cash and Cash Equivalents, Fair Value Disclosure	10,123,775	12,377,024
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 3 [Member] \| Reported Value Measurement [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Receivables, Fair Value Disclosure	713,417,116	706,739,376
Fair Value, Inputs, Level 3 [Member] \| Estimate of Fair Value Measurement [Member]
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Receivables, Fair Value Disclosure	$ 713,417,116	$ 706,739,376

Fair value portion of currency on hand as well as demand deposits with banks or financial institutions. Includes other kinds of accounts that have the general characteristics of demand deposits. Also includes short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Glossary Cash
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Glossary Cash Equivalents
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6507016

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Fair value portion of receivables, including, but not limited to, trade account receivables, note receivables, and loan receivables.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 944
-SubTopic 210
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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