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Recently Adopted Accounting Standards | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2017
New Accounting Pronouncements and Changes in Accounting Principles [Abstract] |
Recently Adopted Accounting Standards | Recently Adopted Accounting Standards In January 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") 2017-04 – Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment, which modified the goodwill impairment test and required an entity to write down the carrying value of goodwill up to the amount by which the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeded its fair value. We adopted this ASU as of the beginning of the fourth quarter of 2017 in connection with our annual impairment test. The adoption of the ASU did not have a material impact on our financial statements. In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18 – Restricted Cash, which required amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents to be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the total beginning and ending amounts for the periods shown on the statement of cash flows. We adopted this ASU in the fourth quarter of 2017 on a retrospective basis. As of September 1, 2016, September 3, 2015, and August 28, 2014, restricted cash was $123 million, $88 million, and $84 million, respectively. The adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on our cash flows. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-09 – Improvements to Employee Share-Based Payment Accounting, which simplified several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment transactions, including income tax consequences, classification of awards as either equity or liabilities, forfeitures, and classification within the statement of cash flows. We adopted this ASU as of the beginning of the first quarter of 2017 and elected to account for forfeitures when they occur, on a modified retrospective basis. At the time of adoption in the first quarter of 2017, we recognized deferred tax assets of $325 million for the excess tax benefits that arose directly from tax deductions related to equity compensation greater than amounts recognized for financial reporting and also recognized an increase of an equal amount in the valuation allowance against those deferred tax assets. The adoption did not have any other material impacts on our financial statements. In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-05 – Customer's Accounting for Fees Paid in a Cloud Computing Arrangement, which provided additional guidance to customers about whether a cloud computing arrangement includes a software license. Under ASU 2015-05, cloud computing arrangements that contain a software license should be accounted for in a manner consistent with the acquisition of other software licenses, otherwise customers should account for the arrangement as a service contract. ASU 2015-05 also removed the requirement to analogize to ASC 840-10 – Leases, to determine the asset acquired in a software licensing arrangement. We adopted this ASU as of the beginning of the first quarter of 2017 on a prospective basis. The adoption of this ASU did not have a material impact on our financial statements. In February 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-02 – Amendments to the Consolidation Analysis, which amended the consolidation requirements in Accounting Standards Codification 810 – Consolidation. ASU 2015-02 made targeted amendments to the consolidation guidance for VIEs. We adopted this ASU as of the beginning of the first quarter of 2017 under a modified-retrospective approach. The adoption of this ASU did not have an impact on our financial statements.

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- Definition The entire disclosure of changes in accounting principles, including adoption of new accounting pronouncements, that describes the new methods, amount and effects on financial statement line items. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 250 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2122394 + Details
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