STOCK-BASED PAYMENT

9 Months Ended

Apr. 30, 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 nine months ended April 30, 2014 and April 30, 2013 are reflected in the table below:



	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	Apr 30, 2014		Apr 30, 2013		Apr 30, 2014		Apr 30, 2013
Restricted stock units	$	5,064	$	3,978	$	15,511	$	11,895
Stock options	2,069		1,825		5,555		4,503
MSPP	961		976		2,125		2,763
ESPP	273		302		771		992
Total	$	8,367	$	7,081	$	23,962	$	20,153

- 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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