DEBT (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2017

DEBT [Abstract]

Schedule of Short-Term Borrowings

			Facilities Used
	Total Amount		Short-term		Letters of		Facilities		Weighted average
	of Facilities		Borrowings		Credit		Available		interest rate
August 31, 2017	$	69,000	$	—	$	966	$	68,034	—	%
August 31, 2016	$	65,000	$	16,534	$	9,224	$	39,242	10.1	%

Summary of Changes in Long-Term Debt

(Amounts in thousands)	Current portion of long-term debt		Long-term debt (net of current portion)		Total
Balances as of August 31, 2016	$	14,565	$	73,542	$	88,107	(1)
Proceeds from long-term debt incurred during the period:
MUFG Union Bank		—		35,700		35,700
Trinidad subsidiary		6,000		6,000		12,000
Repayments of long-term debt:
Repayment of loan by Panama subsidiary		(2,000)		(11,333)		(13,333)
Regularly scheduled loan payments		(225)		(15,837)		(16,062)
Translation adjustments on foreign-currency debt of subsidiaries whose functional currency is not the U.S. dollar (2)		18		(133)		(115)
Balances as of August 31, 2017	$	18,358	$	87,939	$	106,297	(3)

⁽¹⁾ The carrying amount on non-cash assets assigned as collateral for these loans was $102.4 million.  No cash assets were assigned as collateral for these loans.

⁽²⁾ These foreign currency translation adjustments are recorded within Other comprehensive income.

⁽³⁾ The carrying amount on non-cash assets assigned as collateral for these loans was $128.4 million.  No cash assets were assigned as collateral for these loans as of August 31, 2017.

Schedule of Long-Term Debt

	August 31,		August 31,
	2017		2016
Loans entered into by the Company's subsidiaries with a balloon payment due at the end of the loan term and with non-cash assets assigned as collateral and with/without established debt covenants	$	18,200	$	21,945
Loans entered into by the Company's subsidiaries for which the subsidiary has entered into an interest rate swap with non-cash assets assigned as collateral and with/without established debt covenants		49,424		32,258
Loans entered into by the Company's subsidiaries with non-cash assets assigned as collateral and with/without established debt covenants		17,585		9,717
Loans entered into by the Company's subsidiaries for which the subsidiary has entered into a cross-currency interest rate swap with non-cash assets assigned as collateral and with/without established debt covenants		21,088		24,187
Total long-term debt		106,297		88,107
Less: current portion		18,358		14,565
Long-term debt, net of current portion	$	87,939	$	73,542

Schedule of Annual Maturities of Long-Term Debt

Years Ended August 31,	Amount
2018	$	18,358
2019		16,279
2020		18,127
2021		17,941
2022		2,966
Thereafter		32,626
Total	$	106,297