Note 2 - Accounting Pronouncements	12 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2018
Notes to Financial Statements
Description of New Accounting Pronouncements Not yet Adopted [Text Block]	2. ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS New Accounting Pronouncements Adopted In July 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2015 - 11, “ Inventory ,” which modifies the subsequent measurement of inventories recorded under a first -in- first -out or average cost method. Under the new standard, such inventories are required to be measured at the lower of cost and net realizable value. The Company has adopted this new standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016 - 07, “ Investments - Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic 323 ): Simplifying the Transition to the Equity Method of Accounting. ” Among other things, the amendments in ASU 2016 - 07 eliminate the requirement that when an investment qualifies for use of the equity method as a result of an increase in the level of ownership interest or degree of influence, an investor must adjust the investment, results of operations, and retained earnings retroactively on a step-by-step basis as if the equity method had been in effect during all previous periods that the investment had been held. The amendments require that the equity method investor add the cost of acquiring the additional interest in the investee to the current basis of the investor’s previously held interest and adopt the equity method of accounting as of the date the investment becomes qualified for equity method accounting. Therefore, upon qualifying for the equity method of accounting, no retroactive adjustment of the investment is required. The amendments require that an entity that has an available-for-sale equity security that becomes qualified for the equity method of accounting recognize through earnings the unrealized holding gain or loss in accumulated other comprehensive income at the date the investment becomes qualified for use of the equity method. The Company adopted this new standard in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016 - 09, Stock Compensation, (Topic 718 ), which is intended to simplify several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment award transactions. The Company adopted this new guidance in the first quarter of fiscal 2018. The adoption of this guidance did not have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued guidance creating Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Section 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers , which establishes a comprehensive new model for the recognition of revenue from contracts with customers. This model is based on the core principle that revenue should be recognized to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The Company has performed a review of the requirements of the new guidance and has identified which of its revenue streams will be within the scope of ASC 606. The Company has applied the five -step model of the new standard to a selection of contracts within each of its revenue streams and has compared the results to its current accounting practices. The Company is expecting to utilize the modified retrospective transition method of adoption. The Company is continuing to work through the remaining steps of the adoption plan to facilitate adoption effective September 1, 2018. As part of this, the Company is assessing changes that might be necessary to information technology systems, processes, and internal controls to capture new data and address changes in financial reporting. The Company will be revising its revenue recognition accounting policy and expanding revenue disclosures to reflect the requirements of ASC 606, which include disclosures related to the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. Additionally, qualitative and quantitative disclosures are required about customer contracts, significant judgments and assets recognized from the costs to obtain or fulfill a contract. Based on its assessment to date, the Company does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on the way it recognizes revenue. During February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016 - 02, Leases . ASU No. 2016 - 02 was issued to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing all lease transactions (with terms more than 12 months) on the balance sheet as a lease liability and a right-of-use asset (as defined). ASU No. 2016 - 02 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years, with earlier application permitted. Upon adoption, the lessee will apply the new standard retrospectively to all periods presented or retrospectively using a cumulative effect adjustment in the year of adoption. The guidance will be effective for the Company’s first quarter of fiscal 2020. The Company is currently assessing the effect that ASU No. 2016 - 02 will have on its consolidated financial statements. In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016 - 15, Statement of Cash Flows, Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments . ASU No. 2016 - 15 eliminates the diversity in practice related to the classification of certain cash receipts and payments for debt prepayments or extinguishment costs, the maturing of a zero -coupon bond, the settlement of contingent liabilities arising from a business combination, proceeds from insurance settlements, distributions from certain equity method investees and beneficial interests obtained in a financial asset securitization. ASU No. 2016 - 15 designates the appropriate cash flow classification, including requirements to allocate certain components of these cash receipts and payments among operating, investing and financing activities. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effects of adopting ASU No. 2016 - 15 on its consolidated financial statements. In February 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018 - 02, Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220 ) Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income , which will allow a reclassification from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings for the tax effects resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Reform Act) that are stranded in accumulated other comprehensive income. This standard also requires certain disclosures about stranded tax effects. ASU No. 2018 - 02, however, does not change the underlying guidance that requires that the effect of a change in tax laws or rates be included in income from continuing operations. ASU No. 2018 - 02 will be effective for the Company’s fiscal year 2020, with the option for early adoption at any time prior to the effective date. It must be applied either in the period of adoption or retrospectively to each period in which the effect of the change in the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate in the Tax Reform Act is recognized. The Company is currently assessing the impact this new accounting guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements. In December 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) No. 118 (as further clarified by FASB ASU No. 2018 - 05, Income Taxes (Topic 740 ): “Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 118” ) to provide guidance for companies that may not have completed their accounting for the income tax effects of the Tax Reform Act in the period of enactment, which is the period that includes December 22, 2017. SAB No. 118 provides for a provisional one -year measurement period for entities to finalize their accounting for certain income tax effects related to the Tax Reform Act. SAB No. 118 provides guidance where: (i) the accounting for the income tax effect of the Tax Reform Act is complete and reported in the Tax Reform Act’s enactment period, (ii) the accounting for the income tax effect of the Tax Reform Act is incomplete and reported as provisional amounts based on reasonable estimates (to the extent determinable) subject to adjustments during a limited measurement period until complete, and (iii) accounting for the income tax effect of the Tax Reform Act is not reasonably estimable ( no related provisional amounts are reported in the enactment period) and entities would continue to apply accounting based on tax law provisions in effect prior to the Tax Reform Act enactment until provisional amounts are reasonably estimable. SAB No. 118 requires disclosure of the reasons for incomplete accounting additional information or analysis needed, among other relevant information (see Note 14 - Income Taxes). Although there are several other new accounting pronouncements issued or proposed by the FASB, which the Company has adopted or will adopt, as applicable, the Company does not believe any of these accounting pronouncements has had or will have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position or operating results.

ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS

New Accounting Pronouncements Adopted

July 2015,

the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU)

No.

2015

11,

“

Inventory

,” which modifies the subsequent measurement of inventories recorded under a

first

-in-

first

-out or average cost method. Under the new standard, such inventories are required to be measured at the lower of cost and net realizable value. The Company has adopted this new standard in the

first

quarter of fiscal

2018

on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard did

not

have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

March 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

07,

“

Investments - Equity Method and Joint Ventures (Topic

323

): Simplifying the Transition to the Equity Method of Accounting.

” Among other things, the amendments in ASU

2016

eliminate the requirement that when an investment qualifies for use of the equity method as a result of an increase in the level of ownership interest or degree of influence, an investor must adjust the investment, results of operations, and retained earnings retroactively on a step-by-step basis as if the equity method had been in effect during all previous periods that the investment had been held. The amendments require that the equity method investor add the cost of acquiring the additional interest in the investee to the current basis of the investor’s previously held interest and adopt the equity method of accounting as of the date the investment becomes qualified for equity method accounting. Therefore, upon qualifying for the equity method of accounting,

retroactive adjustment of the investment is required. The amendments require that an entity that has an available-for-sale equity security that becomes qualified for the equity method of accounting recognize through earnings the unrealized holding gain or loss in accumulated other comprehensive income at the date the investment becomes qualified for use of the equity method. The Company adopted this new standard in the

first

quarter of fiscal

2018

on a prospective basis. The adoption of this standard did

not

have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

March 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

2016

09,

Stock Compensation, (Topic

718

which is intended to simplify several aspects of the accounting for share-based payment award transactions. The Company adopted this new guidance in the

first

quarter of fiscal

2018.

The adoption of this guidance did

not

have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

May 2014,

the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued guidance creating Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Section

606,

Revenue from Contracts with Customers

, which establishes a comprehensive new model for the recognition of revenue from contracts with customers. This model is based on the core principle that revenue should be recognized to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The Company has performed a review of the requirements of the new guidance and has identified which of its revenue streams will be within the scope of ASC

606.

The Company has applied the

five

-step model of the new standard to a selection of contracts within each of its revenue streams and has compared the results to its current accounting practices. The Company is expecting to utilize the modified retrospective transition method of adoption. The Company is continuing to work through the remaining steps of the adoption plan to facilitate adoption effective

September 1, 2018.

As part of this, the Company is assessing changes that might be necessary to information technology systems, processes, and internal controls to capture new data and address changes in financial reporting. The Company will be revising its revenue recognition accounting policy and expanding revenue disclosures to reflect the requirements of ASC

606,

which include disclosures related to the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. Additionally, qualitative and quantitative disclosures are required about customer contracts, significant judgments and assets recognized from the costs to obtain or fulfill a contract. Based on its assessment to date, the Company does

not

expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on the way it recognizes revenue.

During

February 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

02,

Leases

. ASU

No.

2016

was issued to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing all lease transactions (with terms more than

months) on the balance sheet as a lease liability and a right-of-use asset (as defined). ASU

No.

2016

is effective for fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2018,

including interim periods within those fiscal years, with earlier application permitted. Upon adoption, the lessee will apply the new standard retrospectively to all periods presented or retrospectively using a cumulative effect adjustment in the year of adoption. The guidance will be effective for the Company’s

first

quarter of fiscal

2020.

The Company is currently assessing the effect that ASU

No.

2016

will have on its consolidated financial statements.

August 2016,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2016

15,

Statement of Cash Flows, Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments

. ASU

No.

2016

eliminates the diversity in practice related to the classification of certain cash receipts and payments for debt prepayments or extinguishment costs, the maturing of a

zero

-coupon bond, the settlement of contingent liabilities arising from a business combination, proceeds from insurance settlements, distributions from certain equity method investees and beneficial interests obtained in a financial asset securitization. ASU

No.

2016

designates the appropriate cash flow classification, including requirements to allocate certain components of these cash receipts and payments among operating, investing and financing activities. The guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after

December 15, 2017.

Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effects of adopting ASU

No.

2016

on its consolidated financial statements.

February 2018,

the FASB issued ASU

No.

2018

02,

Income Statement – Reporting Comprehensive Income

(Topic

220

)

Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income

, which will allow a reclassification from accumulated other comprehensive income to retained earnings for the tax effects resulting from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Tax Reform Act) that are stranded in accumulated other comprehensive income. This standard also requires certain disclosures about stranded tax effects. ASU

No.

2018

02,

however, does

not

change the underlying guidance that requires that the effect of a change in tax laws or rates be included in income from continuing operations. ASU

No.

2018

will be effective for the Company’s fiscal year

2020,

with the option for early adoption at any time prior to the effective date. It must be applied either in the period of adoption or retrospectively to each period in which the effect of the change in the U.S. federal corporate income tax rate in the Tax Reform Act is recognized. The Company is currently assessing the impact this new accounting guidance will have on its consolidated financial statements.

December 2017,

the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB)

No.

118

(as further clarified by FASB ASU

No.

2018

05,

Income Taxes

(Topic

740

): “Amendments to SEC Paragraphs Pursuant to SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin

No.

118”

) to provide guidance for companies that

may

not

have completed their accounting for the income tax effects of the Tax Reform Act in the period of enactment, which is the period that includes

December 22, 2017.

SAB

No.

118

provides for a provisional

one

-year measurement period for entities to finalize their accounting for certain income tax effects related to the Tax Reform Act. SAB

No.

118

provides guidance where: (i) the accounting for the income tax effect of the Tax Reform Act is complete and reported in the Tax Reform Act’s enactment period, (ii) the accounting for the income tax effect of the Tax Reform Act is incomplete and reported as provisional amounts based on reasonable estimates (to the extent determinable) subject to adjustments during a limited measurement period until complete, and (iii) accounting for the income tax effect of the Tax Reform Act is

not

reasonably estimable (

related provisional amounts are reported in the enactment period) and entities would continue to apply accounting based on tax law provisions in effect prior to the Tax Reform Act enactment until provisional amounts are reasonably estimable. SAB

No.

118

requires disclosure of the reasons for incomplete accounting additional information or analysis needed, among other relevant information (see Note

- Income Taxes).

Although there are several other new accounting pronouncements issued or proposed by the FASB, which the Company has adopted or will adopt, as applicable, the Company does

not

believe any of these accounting pronouncements has had or will have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial position or operating results.