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Trade Accounts Receivable Securitization and Sale Programs (Securitization Activity) (Details 3) - Asset Backed Securitizations [Member] - USD ($) $ in Millions | 3 Months Ended
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Nov. 30, 2017 | Nov. 30, 2016
Trade Accounts Receivable Securitization and Sale Program [Line Items] |  |  |
Eligible trade accounts receivable sold during the three months ended |  | $ 2,392 | $ 2,343
Cash proceeds received during the three months ended | [1] | 1,628 | 1,575
Pre-tax loss on sale of receivables during the three months ended | [2] | 4 | 2
Deferred purchases price receivables as of November 30 | [3] | $ 760 | $ 766
[1] | (1) For the three months ended November 30, 2017 and 2016 , the amount represented proceeds from collections reinvested in revolving-period transfers as there were no new transfers during the period.
[2] | (2) Recorded to other expense within the Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations.
[3] | (3) R ecorded initially at fair value as prepaid expenses and other current assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and are valued using unobservable inputs (Level 3 inputs), primar ily discounted cash flows, and due to their credit quality and short-term maturity the fair values approximated book values. The unobservable inputs consist of estimated credit losses and estimated discount rates, which both have an immaterial impact on th e fair value calculation s.

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- Definition Value of trade accounts receivable sold during the period under the asset-backed securitization and sales programs. + References No definition available. + Details
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- Definition Cash Flows between a transferor and a transferee attributable to collections reinvested in revolving period transfers related to either a securitization, asset-backed financing arrangement, or similar transfer in which the transferor has continuing involvement with the transferred financial assets underlying the transaction (including, but not limited to, servicing, recourse, and restrictions on transferor's interests in the transferred financial assets). + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 860 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 3 -Subparagraph d -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=64830801&loc=d3e107207-111719 + Details
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- Definition Reflects, by transferred financial asset type, the amount of sales proceeds in excess of or deficient from the sum of the carrying amounts of transferred financial assets plus transaction costs, including those transactions in which the seller/transferor has continuing involvement with the financial assets that have been transferred. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 860 -SubTopic 20 -Section 50 -Paragraph 3 -Subparagraph (b) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=64830801&loc=d3e107207-111719 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 860 -SubTopic 10 -Section 40 -Paragraph 4 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=65892426&loc=d3e96813-111708 + Details
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