Concentration of Risk and Segment Data (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2023

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Schedule of Sales to Customers Who Accounted for 10 Percent or More of Net Revenues, Expressed as Percentage of Consolidated Net Revenue and Accounts Receivable for Each Customer

Sales to the following customers that accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s net revenues, expressed as a percentage of consolidated net revenue, and the percentage of accounts receivable for the customers, were as follows:

	Percentage of Net Revenue Fiscal Year Ended August 31,						Percentage of Accounts Receivable as of August 31,
	2023		2022		2021		2023	2022
Apple, Inc.(1)	17	%	19	%	22	%	*	*

*  Amount was less than 10% of total.

(1)Sales to this customer were reported in the DMS operating segment.

Schedule of Revenues Disaggregated by Segment

The following table presents the Company’s revenues disaggregated by segment (in millions):

	Fiscal Year Ended August 31,
	2023						2022						2021
	EMS		DMS		Total		EMS		DMS		Total		EMS		DMS		Total
Timing of transfer
Point in time	$	5,094	$	6,453	$	11,547	$	6,112	$	6,818	$	12,930	$	4,464	$	7,183	$	11,647
Over time	11,655		11,500		23,155		10,625		9,923		20,548		9,440		8,198		17,638
Total	$	16,749	$	17,953	$	34,702	$	16,737	$	16,741	$	33,478	$	13,904	$	15,381	$	29,285

Schedule of Segment Income and Reconciliation of Income Before Income Tax

The following tables set forth operating segment information (in millions):

	Fiscal Year Ended August 31,
	2023		2022		2021
Segment income and reconciliation of income before income tax
EMS	$	837	$	727	$	509
DMS	896		816		732
Total segment income	$	1,733	$	1,543	$	1,241
Reconciling items:
Amortization of intangibles	(33)		(34)		(47)
Stock-based compensation expense and related charges	(95)		(81)		(102)
Restructuring, severance and related charges	(57)		(18)		(10)
Business interruption and impairment charges, net	—		—		1
Acquisition and integration charges	—		—		(4)
Loss on debt extinguishment	—		(4)		—
Gain on securities	—		—		2
Other expense (net of periodic benefit cost)	(80)		(29)		(13)
Interest expense, net	(206)		(146)		(124)
Income before income tax	$	1,262	$	1,231	$	944

Schedule of Segment Assets

	August 31, 2023		August 31, 2022
Total assets:
EMS	$	4,859	$	5,402
DMS	6,802		8,881
Assets held for sale(1)	1,929		—
Other non-allocated assets	5,834		5,434
Total	$	19,424	$	19,717

(1)Assets held for sale were reported in the DMS operating segment.

Schedule of Revenue from External Customers by Geographic Areas

The following tables set forth external net revenue, net of intercompany eliminations, and long-lived asset information where individual countries represent a material portion of the total (in millions):

	Fiscal Year Ended August 31,
	2023		2022		2021
External net revenue:
Singapore	$	7,385	$	7,916	$	7,943
Mexico	6,083		5,630		4,323
China	5,868		5,272		4,666
Malaysia	2,779		2,709		2,121
India	1,596		591		549
Other	6,056		5,971		4,868
Foreign source revenue	29,767		28,089		24,470
U.S.	4,935		5,389		4,815
Total	$	34,702	$	33,478	$	29,285

    

	August 31, 2023		August 31, 2022
Long-lived assets:
China(1)	$	684	$	1,758
Mexico	574		492
Malaysia	358		328
Switzerland	238		208
Singapore	131		138
Hungary	109		114
Taiwan	97		101
Vietnam	88		104
Other	628		553
Long-lived assets related to foreign operations	2,907		3,796
U.S.	993		1,020
Total	$	3,900	$	4,816

(1)Excludes long-lived assets of $841 million classified as held for sale. See Note 16 – “Business Acquisitions and Divestitures” for additional information.