Leases

12 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2024

We lease property and equipment under operating lease arrangements, most of which relate to distribution centers and manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Mexico, and Canada. We include both the contractual term as well as any renewal option that we are reasonably certain to exercise in the determination of our lease terms. For leases with a term of greater than 12 months, we value lease liabilities as the present value of the lease payments over the related term. Related assets are equal to the calculated lease liabilities adjusted for incentives and other items as prescribed by ASC Topic 842, Leases (“ASC 842”). Lease payments generally consist of fixed amounts, and variable amounts based on a market rate or an index are not material to our consolidated lease cost. We have elected to use the practical expedient present in ASC 842 to not separate lease and non-lease components for all significant underlying asset classes and instead account for them together as a single lease component in the measurement of our lease liabilities.

We apply the short-term lease exception to leases with a term of 12 months or less and exclude such leases from our Consolidated Balance Sheets. Payments related to these short-term leases are expensed on a straight-line basis over the lease term and are reflected as a component of lease cost within our Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income.

Generally, the rates implicit in our leases are not readily determinable. Therefore, we discount future lease payments using our estimated incremental borrowing rate at lease commencement. We determine this rate based

on a credit-adjusted risk-free rate, which approximates a secured rate over the lease term. The weighted average discount rate for operating leases was 3.7% and 3.5% as of August 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

The following table presents the future undiscounted payments due on our operating lease liabilities as well as a reconciliation of those payments to our operating lease liabilities recorded as of the date presented (in millions):


Fiscal year	August 31, 2024
2025	$	21.1
2026	17.5
2027	13.5
2028	9.6
2029	8.0
Thereafter	16.3
Total undiscounted lease payments	86.0
Less: Discount due to interest	(8.7)
Present value of lease liabilities	$	77.3

The weighted average remaining lease term for our operating leases was five years as of August 31, 2024.

Lease cost is recorded within Cost of products sold, and may be capitalized into inventory as manufacturing overhead, or Selling, distribution, and administrative expenses in the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income based on the primary use of the related right of use (“ROU”) asset. The components of total lease cost were as follows during the periods presented (in millions):


	Year Ended August 31,
	2024		2023		2022
Operating lease cost	$	23.5	$	22.3	$	18.8
Variable lease cost	3.8		4.2		2.7
Short-term lease cost	3.8		3.6		4.3
Total lease cost	$	31.1	$	30.1	$	25.8

Cash paid for operating lease liabilities during the year ended August 31, 2024, 2023, and 2022 was $22.9 million, $20.1 million, and $18.5 million, respectively. ROU assets obtained in exchange for lease liabilities during the year ended August 31, 2024 and 2023 were $3.4 million and $29.9 million, respectively.

We have no significant leases that have not yet commenced as of August 31, 2024 that create significant rights and obligations.

We have subleased certain properties. Lease income from these subleases is recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income as it is earned and is not material to our consolidated results of operations. We do not have any other significant transactions in which we are the lessor.

In connection with our fiscal 2023 sale of our Sunoptics prismatic skylights, we retained certain assets, primarily ROU assets, that we did not plan to continue using in our manufacturing operations. Accordingly, we assessed the recoverability of these assets using an undiscounted cash flow model and concluded that the carrying values of the assets were not fully recoverable, which triggered an impairment test for these assets. We recorded an impairment charge of $4.3 million within for these assets using a discounted cash flow model to estimate their fair values in fiscal 2023. The impairments were recorded within Special charges in the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income and pertained to our ABL segment. See the Special Charges footnote of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further details on the fiscal 2023 impairments. The recoverability and impairment tests required significant assumptions including estimated future cash flows, the identification of assets within each asset group, and the determination of an appropriate discount rate.