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Selected Current Liabilities (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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May. 31, 2015
Selected Current Liabilities (Tables) [Abstract] |
Selected Current Liabilities |
|  |  | 2015 |  | 2014
Accrued Salaries and Employee Benefits |  |  |  |  |
| Salaries | $ | 345 |  | $ | 267
| Employee benefits, including |  |  |  |  |
|  | variable compensation |  | 507 |  |  | 434
| Compensated absences |  | 584 |  |  | 576
|  |  | $ | 1,436 |  | $ | 1,277
Accrued Expenses |  |  |  |  |
| Self-insurance accruals | $ | 865 |  | $ | 811
| Taxes other than income taxes |  | 328 |  |  | 339
| Other |  | 1,243 |  |  | 913
|  |  | $ | 2,436 |  | $ | 2,063

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