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STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION PLANS (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2024
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract] |
Total awards granted | The following table summarizes the total liability awards and equity awards granted:
|  |  |  | Restricted Stock Awards/Units |  | Performance Awards
2022 grants |  |  |  | 652,951 |  |  | 328,734 |
2023 grants |  |  |  | 633,898 |  |  | 335,746 |
2024 grants |  |  |  | 524,943 |  |  | 244,931 |
Restricted stock units and performance stock units, excluding the cash component | Information for restricted stock units and performance stock units accounted for as equity awards is as follows:
|  | Number |  | Weighted Average Fair Value
Outstanding as of August 31, 2021 |  | 2,190,795 |  |  | $ | 20.67 |
Granted(1) |  | 1,466,628 |  |  | 28.16 |
Vested |  | (1,617,943) |  |  | 18.84 |
Forfeited |  | (45,850) |  |  | 23.57 |
Outstanding as of August 31, 2022 |  | 1,993,630 |  |  | 27.59 |
Granted(1) |  | 1,438,695 |  |  | 36.88 |
Vested |  | (1,621,002) |  |  | 25.32 |
Forfeited |  | (33,732) |  |  | 36.65 |
Outstanding as of August 31, 2023 |  | 1,777,591 |  |  | 37.01 |
Granted(1) |  | 1,084,719 |  |  | 47.73 |
Vested |  | (1,256,412) |  |  | 38.03 |
Forfeited |  | (57,312) |  |  | 41.95 |
Outstanding as of August 31, 2024 |  | 1,548,586 |  |  | $ | 43.52 |
_______________________________ (1) Includes grants related to (i) all restricted stock units accounted for as equity awards, (ii) performance stock units accounted for as equity awards on the date of grant and (iii) performance stock units that were reclassified from liability awards to equity awards in the applicable year, such year being the third year of the respective performance period for such performance stock units.
Yearly activity of the stock purchase plan | Yearly activity of the stock purchase plan was as follows:
|  | Year Ended August 31,
|  | 2024 |  | 2023 |  | 2022
Shares subscribed |  | 259,500 |  |  | 272,980 |  |  | 279,370 |
Price per share |  | $ | 42.16 |  |  | $ | 41.31 |  |  | $ | 29.90 |
Shares purchased |  | 238,850 |  |  | 248,080 |  |  | 313,790 |
Price per share |  | $ | 41.31 |  |  | $ | 29.90 |  |  | $ | 17.14 |
Shares available for future issuance |  | 1,437,154 |  |  |  |  |

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