Significant Accounting Policies and General Matters	9 Months Ended
Nov. 30, 2018
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
Significant Accounting Policies and General Matters	1. Significant Accounting Policies and General Matters Basis of Presentation These unaudited consolidated financial statements of Ennis, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to as the “Company,” “Registrant,” “Ennis,” or “we,” “us,” or “our”) for the period ended November 30, 2018 have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 28, 2018, from which the accompanying consolidated balance sheet at February 28, 2018 was derived. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. In the opinion of management, all adjustments considered necessary for a fair presentation of the interim financial information have been included and are of a normal recurring nature. In preparing the financial statements, the Company is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the disclosure and reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The Company evaluates these estimates and judgments on an ongoing basis, including those related to bad debts, inventory valuations, property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, pension plan, accrued liabilities, and income taxes. The Company bases estimates and judgments on historical experience and on various other factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. The results of operations for any interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations for a full year. Recent Accounting Pronouncements In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-07, Compensation-Retirement Benefits (Topic 715): Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost (“ASU 2017-07”). The update requires the service cost component of net benefit costs to be reported in the same line of the income statement as other compensation costs and the other components of net benefit costs (non-service costs) to be presented separately from the service cost component, outside a subtotal of operating income. Additionally, only the service cost component of net benefit costs will be eligible for capitalization. The Company retrospectively adopted this guidance as of March 1, 2018. The impact of adoption was a $72,000 decrease in cost of sales, $57,000 decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses and $129,000 increase in other expense-net for the three months ended November 30, 2017 compared to the amount previously reported. The impact of adoption was a $217,000 decrease in cost of sales, $171,000 decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses and $388,000 increase in other expense-net for the nine months ended November 30, 2017 compared to the amount previously reported. In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (“ASU 2016-02”), which modifies the lease recognition requirements and requires entities to recognize the assets and liabilities arising from leases on the balance sheet and to disclose key qualitative and quantitative information about the entity’s leasing arrangements. Based on the original guidance in ASU 2016-02, lessees and lessors would have been required to recognize and measure leases at the beginning of the earliest period presented using a modified retrospective approach, including a number of practical expedients. In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-11, Leases (ASC 842): Targeted Improvements, which provides entities with an option to apply the guidance prospectively, instead of retrospectively, and allows for other classification provisions. ASU 2016-02 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted. The Company currently anticipates that it will elect to recognize its lease assets and liabilities on a prospective basis, beginning on March 1, 2019, using an optional transition method. The Company expects to elect the ‘package of practical expedients’ as both the lessee and lessor, which permits it not to reassess under the new standard its prior conclusions about lease identification, lease classification and initial direct costs. Additionally, the Company expects to elect to treat lease and non-lease components as a single lease component. The Company expects that the adoption of this standard will result in a material increase to assets and liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets but will not have a material impact on the consolidated statement of income. While the Company is continuing to assess all the effects of adoption, it currently believes the most significant effects relate to (i) the recognition of new right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on its balance sheet for its property and equipment operating leases and (ii) providing significant new disclosures about its leasing activities. In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) (“ASU 2014-09”), which requires an entity to recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which it expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Our conclusion is that the timing of revenue recognition for our various revenue streams is not materially impacted by the adoption of this standard. The Company adopted this standard on March 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective approach. The adoption did not have, and is not expected to have, a significant impact on the consolidated operating results, financial position or cash flows of the Company. See Note 2, Revenue, below for further disclosures associated with the adoption of this pronouncement.

Significant Accounting Policies and General Matters

9 Months Ended

Nov. 30, 2018

Significant Accounting Policies and General Matters

1. Significant Accounting Policies and General Matters

Basis of Presentation

These unaudited consolidated financial statements of Ennis, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively referred to as the “Company,” “Registrant,” “Ennis,” or “we,” “us,” or “our”) for the period ended November 30, 2018 have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial reporting. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended February 28, 2018, from which the accompanying consolidated balance sheet at February 28, 2018 was derived. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. In the opinion of management, all adjustments considered necessary for a fair presentation of the interim financial information have been included and are of a normal recurring nature. In preparing the financial statements, the Company is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the disclosure and reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The Company evaluates these estimates and judgments on an ongoing basis, including those related to bad debts, inventory valuations, property, plant and equipment, intangible assets, pension plan, accrued liabilities, and income taxes. The Company bases estimates and judgments on historical experience and on various other factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. The results of operations for any interim period are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations for a full year.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In March 2017, the FASB issued ASU No. 2017-07, Compensation-Retirement Benefits (Topic 715): Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Postretirement Benefit Cost (“ASU 2017-07”). The update requires the service cost component of net benefit costs to be reported in the same line of the income statement as other compensation costs and the other components of net benefit costs (non-service costs) to be presented separately from the service cost component, outside a subtotal of operating income. Additionally, only the service cost component of net benefit costs will be eligible for capitalization. The Company retrospectively adopted this guidance as of March 1, 2018. The impact of adoption was a $72,000 decrease in cost of sales, $57,000 decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses and $129,000 increase in other expense-net for the three months ended November 30, 2017 compared to the amount previously reported. The impact of adoption was a $217,000 decrease in cost of sales, $171,000 decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses and $388,000 increase in other expense-net for the nine months ended November 30, 2017 compared to the amount previously reported.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (“ASU 2016-02”), which modifies the lease recognition requirements and requires entities to recognize the assets and liabilities arising from leases on the balance sheet and to disclose key qualitative and quantitative information about the entity’s leasing arrangements.

Based on the original guidance in ASU 2016-02, lessees and lessors would have been required to recognize and measure leases at the beginning of the earliest period presented using a modified retrospective approach, including a number of practical expedients. In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-11, Leases (ASC 842): Targeted Improvements, which provides entities with an option to apply the guidance prospectively, instead of retrospectively, and allows for other classification provisions. ASU 2016-02 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted. The Company currently anticipates that it will elect to recognize its lease assets and liabilities on a prospective basis, beginning on March 1, 2019, using an optional transition method.

The Company expects to elect the ‘package of practical expedients’ as both the lessee and lessor, which permits it not to reassess under the new standard its prior conclusions about lease identification, lease classification and initial direct costs. Additionally, the Company expects to elect to treat lease and non-lease components as a single lease component.

The Company expects that the adoption of this standard will result in a material increase to assets and liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets but will not have a material impact on the consolidated statement of income. While the Company is continuing to assess all the effects of adoption, it currently believes the most significant effects relate to (i) the recognition of new right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on its balance sheet for its property and equipment operating leases and (ii) providing significant new disclosures about its leasing activities.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) (“ASU 2014-09”), which requires an entity to recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which it expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. Our conclusion is that the timing of revenue recognition for our various revenue streams is not materially impacted by the adoption of this standard. The Company adopted this standard on March 1, 2018 using the modified retrospective approach. The adoption did not have, and is not expected to have, a significant impact on the consolidated operating results, financial position or cash flows of the Company. See Note 2, Revenue, below for further disclosures associated with the adoption of this pronouncement.