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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Nov. 30, 2020
Income Taxes [Abstract]  
Income Taxes NOTE 7 – INCOME TAXES

We recorded $0.2 million of income tax expense during the quarter ended November 30, 2020 on a pre-tax loss of $0.7 million, resulting in an effective tax expense rate of 25 percent. Our effective tax rate was adversely impacted by non-deductible executive compensation and certain other non-deductible expenses. We computed our income tax provision for the first quarter of fiscal 2021 using the discrete method, applying the actual year-to-date effective tax rate to our pre-tax loss. We believe that this method yields a more reliable income tax calculation for the period. The estimated annual effective tax rate method is not reasonable due to its sensitivity to small changes in forecasted annual income or loss before income taxes, which would result in significant variations in the customary relationship between income tax expense and pre-tax income or loss for interim periods.