Amount Of Distributor Advances Included In Accounts Receivable

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Income Tax Benefit, Tax Settlement, Likely Realization, Percent

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Number of days requiring distributor to settle receivable balances, on a current basis, for amounts originally invoiced (in days)

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Useful life of finite-lived intangible assets, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 280
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 18
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120311839&loc=d3e8672-108599

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Number of reporting units tested for impairment of goodwill. A reporting unit is an operating segment or one level below an operating segment.

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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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Significant Accounting Policies (Details) $ in Millions	12 Months Ended
Significant Accounting Policies (Details) $ in Millions	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($) reporting_unit	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($) segment	Mar. 31, 2021 USD ($) unit	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($)
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Number of reporting units		2		2
Amount of distributor advances, included in accounts receivable \| $	$ 104.8	$ 104.8	$ 104.8	$ 104.8	$ 141.0
Number of days requiring distributor to settle receivable balances (in days)	30 days
Number of operating segments \| segment			2
Likely realization upon settlement of income tax benefit	50.00%	50.00%	50.00%	50.00%
Minimum
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Product warranty	12 months
Useful life	1 year
Minimum \| Building and building improvements
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, plant and equipment, useful life	10 years
Minimum \| Machinery and equipment
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, plant and equipment, useful life	5 years
Maximum
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Product warranty	24 months
Useful life	15 years
Maximum \| Building and building improvements
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, plant and equipment, useful life	30 years
Maximum \| Machinery and equipment
Property, Plant and Equipment [Line Items]
Property, plant and equipment, useful life	7 years