Compensation Plans - Remaining Unamortized Amounts (Details) - May. 31, 2015 - USD ($) $ in Millions	Total
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Remaining Unamortized Amounts	$ 370.0
Nonvested Share-Based Awards [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Remaining Unamortized Amounts	$ 56.0
Weighted Average Vesting Period (in Years)	1 year 9 months 18 days
Restricted Cash Awards [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Remaining Unamortized Amounts	$ 314.0
Weighted Average Vesting Period (in Years)	3 years

Unrecognized cost of unvested share-based compensation awards.

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-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 718

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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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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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