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Income Taxes (Tables)
 3 Months Ended
Nov. 30, 2015
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 November 30,
 
2015(1)
 
2014(1)
Federal statutory rate
35.0
 %
 
35.0
 %
State taxes, net of credits
0.8

 
(0.9
)
Foreign income taxed at different rates
(9.1
)
 
(57.6
)
Section 199 deduction
—

 
1.5

Non-deductible officers’ compensation
1.5

 
(0.1
)
Noncontrolling interests
(3.9
)
 
0.2

Research and development credits
(0.2
)
 
—

Valuation allowance on deferred tax assets
(16.4
)
 
8.0

Unrecognized tax benefits
1.2

 
(0.4
)
Other non-deductible expenses
2.1

 
—

Other
(0.5
)
 
(1.8
)
Effective tax rate
10.5
 %
 
(16.1
)%

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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.