STOCK-BASED PAYMENT

6 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2014

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

STOCK–BASED PAYMENT

The Company currently has four stock-based employee and director compensation award types (Restricted Stock Unit, Stock Option Plans, Management Stock Purchase Plan (“MSPP”), and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”)), which are more fully described in Note 15, Common Stock, to the consolidated financial statements included in the 2013 Form 10-K.

The detailed components of stock-based compensation expense recorded in the condensed consolidated statements of earnings for the three and six months ended January 31, 2014 and January 31, 2013 are reflected in the table below:



	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
	Jan 31, 2014		Jan 31, 2013		Jan 31, 2014		Jan 31, 2013
Restricted stock units	$	6,254	$	4,609	$	10,447	$	7,917
Stock options	1,965		1,544		3,486		2,678
MSPP	972		937		1,164		1,787
ESPP	273		302		498		690
Total	$	9,464	$	7,392	$	15,595	$	13,072

- Definition

The entire disclosure for compensation-related costs for equity-based compensation, which may include disclosure of policies, compensation plan details, allocation of equity compensation, incentive distributions, equity-based arrangements to obtain goods and services, deferred compensation arrangements, employee stock ownership plan details and employee stock purchase plan details.

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