Income Taxes (Tables)

9 Months Ended

May 31, 2017

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 May 31,				Nine Months Ended May 31,
	2017		2016		2017		2016
Federal statutory rate	35.0	%	35.0	%	35.0	%	35.0	%
State taxes, net of credits	2.0		1.7		2.0		1.4
Foreign income taxed at different rates	(2.3	)	(2.4	)	(2.1	)	(6.1	)
Non-deductible officers’ compensation	2.2		0.7		1.9		(1.3	)
Noncontrolling interests	(1.6	)	(1.6	)	(2.5	)	3.0
Research and development credits	(0.9	)	(2.1	)	(0.8	)	1.6
Tax return to provision adjustment	(4.7	)	(1.1	)	(2.8	)	0.4
Valuation allowance on deferred tax assets	(31.2	)	(31.2	)	(30.3	)	(33.5	)
Non-deductible goodwill	—		0.3		—		(0.6	)
Unrecognized tax benefits	0.7		1.4		0.9		(1.4	)
Other non-deductible expenses	1.6		0.7		1.3		(1.8	)
Other	0.1		(0.6	)	(0.1	)	0.8
Effective tax rate(1)	0.9	%	0.8	%	2.5	%	(2.5	)%

_____________________________

(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.