Share-based Compensation Plans (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2014

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]

Fair value of options calculation assumptions [Table Text Block]

Assumptions Used to Estimate Fair Value of 2014 Grants of PSUs and MSUs			PSUs	MSUs

Number of target shares, in thousands			186.8	82.9

Assumptions used to estimate fair value
	Beginning average price of Brink’s common stock^(a)	$	33.29	33.29
	Expected dividend yield for the TSR provision of PSU awards^(b)		0%	n/a
	Expected dividend yield for PSUs and MSUs^(c)		0%	0%
	Expected volatility^(d)		38%	38%
	Risk-free interest rate		0.7%	0.7%
	Expected term in years^(e)		2.9	2.9

Weighted-average fair value estimates at grant date^(f):
	In millions	$	5.7	2.6
	Fair value per share	$	30.71	30.87

Nonvested share activity [Table Text Block]

Nonvested Share Activity - RSUs and DSUs
			Number of shares				Weighted-Average
							Grant-Date
	(in thousands of shares, except for per share amounts)		RSUs	DSUs	Total		Fair Value

	Balance as of December 31, 2013		396.4	19.2	415.6	$	24.68
	Granted		128.7	-	128.7		30.20
	Cancelled awards		(3.7)	-	(3.7)		24.63
	Vested		(10.4)	-	(10.4)		30.48
		Balance as of March 31, 2014	511.0	19.2	530.2	$	25.91

Performance Shares PSU [Member]

Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]

Nonvested share activity [Table Text Block]

Nonvested Share Activity - MSUs and PSUs
			Number of shares				Weighted-Average
							Grant-Date
	(in thousands of shares, except for per share amounts)		PSUs	MSUs	Total		Fair Value

	Balance as of December 31, 2013		199.3	96.2	295.5	$	26.28
	Granted		186.8	82.9	269.7		30.76
	Cancelled awards		(1.7)	-	(1.7)		26.22
		Balance as of March 31, 2014	384.4	179.1	563.5	$	28.42

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of a stock option or other award plan under which equity-based compensation is awarded to employees, typically comprised of the amount of unearned compensation (deferred compensation cost), compensation expense, and changes in the quantity and fair value of the shares (or other type of equity) granted, exercised, forfeited, and issued and outstanding pertaining to that plan. Disclosure may also include nature and general terms of such arrangements that existed during the period and potential effects of those arrangements on shareholders, effect of compensation cost arising from equity-based payment arrangements on the income statement, method of estimating the fair value of the goods or services received, or the fair value of the equity instruments granted, during the period, cash flow effects resulting from equity-based payment arrangements and, for registrants that accelerate vesting of out of the money share options, reasons for the decision to accelerate.

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