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Selected Current Liabilities (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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May 31, 2016
Selected Current Liabilities (Tables) [Abstract] |
Selected Current Liabilities |
|  |  | 2016 |  | 2015
Accrued Salaries and Employee Benefits |  |  |  |  |
| Salaries | $ | 478 |  | $ | 345
| Employee benefits, including |  |  |  |  |
|  | variable compensation |  | 804 |  |  | 507
| Compensated absences |  | 690 |  |  | 584
|  |  | $ | 1,972 |  | $ | 1,436
Accrued Expenses |  |  |  |  |
| Self-insurance accruals | $ | 837 |  | $ | 865
| Taxes other than income taxes |  | 311 |  |  | 328
| Other |  | 1,915 |  |  | 1,242
|  |  | $ | 3,063 |  | $ | 2,435

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