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SALES OF ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Nov. 30, 2017
Transfers and Servicing [Abstract] |
Activity of the deferred purchase price receivables | The following tables summarize the activity of the deferred purchase price receivables for the U.S. and international sale of trade accounts receivable programs:
|  | Three Months Ended November 30, 2017
(in thousands) |  | Total |  | U.S. |  | Poland
Beginning balance |  | $ | 215,123 |  |  | $ | 135,623 |  |  | $ | 79,500 |
Transfers of accounts receivable |  | 656,642 |  |  | 535,893 |  |  | 120,749 |
Collections |  | (578,389 | ) |  | (450,482 | ) |  | (127,907 | )
Ending balance |  | $ | 293,376 |  |  | $ | 221,034 |  |  | $ | 72,342 |
|  | Three Months Ended November 30, 2016
(in thousands) |  | Total |  | U.S.* |  | Australia** |  | Poland
Beginning balance |  | $ | 289,748 |  |  | $ | 212,762 |  |  | $ | 26,662 |  |  | $ | 50,324 |
Transfers of accounts receivable |  | 556,964 |  |  | 470,145 |  |  | 16,914 |  |  | 69,905 |
Collections |  | (551,274 | ) |  | (467,190 | ) |  | (9,659 | ) |  | (74,425 | )
Exit from programs |  | (33,917 | ) |  | — |  |  | (33,917 | ) |  | — |
Ending balance |  | $ | 261,521 |  |  | $ | 215,717 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 45,804 |
_________________ * Includes the sale of trade accounts receivable activities related to the CMC Cometals discontinued operation. See Note 2, Changes in Business, for further discussion. For the three months ended November 30, 2016, there were transfers of trade accounts receivable of $33.9 million and collections were $39.5 million. ** Includes the sale of trade accounts receivable activities related to the Australian steel distribution business discontinued operation. For the three months ended November 30, 2016, there were no transfers of trade accounts receivable, collections were $3.7 million and redemptions of trade accounts receivable associated with the exit from the program were $1.6 million.

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