Income Taxes - Reconciliation of Effects of Tax Act on Effective Tax Rate (Detail)	6 Months Ended
Feb. 28, 2018
Income Taxes [Line Items]
Effective tax rate before the Tax Act	33.00%
Benefit from reduction in statutory federal corporate tax rate from 35% to 25.7%	(5.60%)
Effective tax rate before discrete items	27.40%
Discrete benefit from revaluation of deferred income taxes	(31.70%)
Discrete expense from transition tax	10.60%
Effective tax rate	6.30%

Effective income tax rate reconciliation before discrete items.

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Effective income tax rate reconciliation, before the tax act, percent.

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Percentage of reported income tax expense (benefit) in excess of (less than) expected income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying domestic federal statutory income tax rate to pretax income (loss) from continuing operations, attributable to increase (decrease) from remeasurement of deferred tax assets and liabilities pursuant to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

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Percentage of reported income tax expense (benefit) in excess of (less than) expected income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying domestic federal statutory income tax rate to pretax income (loss) from continuing operations, attributable to increase (decrease) from transition tax on accumulated earnings of controlled foreign corporation deemed repatriated pursuant to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

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Income taxes.

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Percentage of current income tax expense (benefit) and deferred income tax expense (benefit) pertaining to continuing operations.

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Percentage of the difference between reported income tax expense (benefit) and expected income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying the domestic federal statutory income tax rates to pretax income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to changes in the income tax rates.

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