Share-based Payments

3 Months Ended

Nov. 30, 2018

Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract]

We account for share-based payments through the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for share-based payment awards made to employees and directors, including stock options and restricted shares (all part of our equity incentive plan), and share units representing certain deferrals into our director deferred compensation plan or our supplemental deferred savings plan.

The following table presents share-based payment expense and new shares issued upon exercise of stock options for the three months ended November 30, 2018 and 2017 (in millions, except shares):



	Three Months Ended
	November 30, 2018		November 30, 2017
Share-based payment expense	$	7.8	$	8.5
Shares issued from option exercises	—		6,156

Further details regarding each of these award programs and our share-based payments are included within the Share-based Payments footnote of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements within our Form 10-K.