Retirement Benefit Plans

6 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2017

Compensation and Retirement Disclosure [Abstract]

Retirement Benefit Plans

Retirement Benefit Plans

The Company and certain of its subsidiaries sponsor defined benefit pension plans covering some of its employees. The components of net periodic benefit cost of the Company’s defined benefit plans are as follows:

	Three Months Ended   March 31,						Six Months Ended   March 31,
	2017			2016			2017			2016
Service cost	$	78		$	69		$	157		$	139
Interest cost	220			256			440			512
Expected return on plan assets	(404		)	(407		)	(809		)	(815		)
Amortization of net loss	214			210			429			420
Net periodic cost	$	108		$	128		$	217		$	256

During the six months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016, the Company made no contributions to its defined benefit pension plans. The Company has carryover balances from previous periods that may be available for use as a credit to reduce the amount of contributions that the Company is required to make to certain defined benefit plans in fiscal 2017. The Company's ability to elect to use such carryover balance will be determined based on the actual funded status of each defined benefit pension plan relative to the plan's minimum regulatory funding requirements. The Company does not anticipate in making additional cash contributions to fund its defined benefit pension plans during the balance of fiscal 2017.