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Note 9 - Total Comprehensive Income (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2012
Schedule of Comprehensive Income (Loss) [Table Text Block] |
|  | 2012 |  |  | 2011 |
Net income attributable to NTIC |  | $ | 3,448,196 |  |  | $ | 3,900,120 |
Other comprehensive income (loss) – foreign currency translation adjustment |  |  | (2,219,357 | ) |  |  | 1,792,467 |
Total comprehensive income (loss) attributable to NTIC |  | $ | 1,228,839 |  |  | $ | 5,692,587 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 220 -SubTopic 10 -Section 45 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=20435746&loc=d3e526-108580 + Details
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