Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Nov. 30, 2025

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Income Taxes

Note 10. Income Taxes

The Company's global operations, acquisition activity (as applicable) and specific tax attributes provide opportunities for continuous global tax planning initiatives to maximize tax credits and deductions. Comparative earnings before income taxes, income tax expense and effective income tax rates are as follows (dollars in thousands):

	Three Months Ended November 30,
	2025			2024
Earnings before income tax expense	$	25,557		$	27,875
Income tax expense	6,426			6,152
Effective income tax rate	25.1		%	22.1		%

The Company’s earnings before income taxes include earnings from both U.S. and foreign jurisdictions. As several foreign tax rates are higher than the U.S. tax rate of 21%, the annual effective tax rate is impacted by foreign rate differentials, withholding taxes, losses in jurisdictions where no benefit can be realized, and key international provisions enacted from recent tax legislation, such as the Global Intangible Low-Taxed Income and Foreign-Derived Intangible Income provisions.

The effective tax rate for the three months ended November 30, 2025 was 25.1%, compared to 22.1% for the comparable prior-year period. The effective tax rate in each time period was impacted by year-to-date losses and deductions in jurisdictions where no tax benefit can be realized. The higher effective tax rate for the three months ended November 30, 2025 was primarily driven by the more favorable tax impac