Income Taxes (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Feb. 29, 2016

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation

A reconciliation of the difference between the federal statutory rate and the Company’s effective rate is as follows:

	Three Months Ended				Six Months Ended
	2/29/2016		2/28/2015		2/29/2016		2/28/2015
Federal statutory rate	35.0	%	35.0	%	35.0	%	35.0	%
State taxes, net of credits	1.6		1.1		1.5		1.1
Foreign income taxed at different rates	(4.5	)	(7.4	)	(5.1	)	(7.6	)
Non-deductible officers’ compensation	(1.1	)	(0.1	)	(0.7	)	(0.1	)
Noncontrolling interests	2.6		0.5		1.8		0.5
Research and development credits	0.8		0.1		0.6		0.1
Valuation allowance on deferred tax assets	(35.2	)	(20.5	)	(32.9	)	(20.4	)
Non-deductible goodwill	(0.4	)	(2.8	)	(0.4	)	(2.8	)
Unrecognized tax benefits	(0.9	)	(0.5	)	(0.7	)	(0.5	)
Other	(1.2	)	(0.6	)	(0.7	)	(0.6	)
Effective tax rate	(3.3	)%	4.8	%	(1.6	)%	4.7	%

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(1) For periods with reported pre-tax losses, the effect of reconciling items with positive signs is a tax benefit in excess of applying the federal statutory rate to the pre-tax loss.