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Note 6 - Investments in Joint Ventures | 12 Months Ended
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Aug. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements |
Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures Disclosure [Text Block] | 6. INVESTMENTS IN JOINT VENTURES The consolidated financial statements of the Company’s foreign joint ventures are initially prepared using the accounting principles accepted in the respective joint ventures’ countries of domicile. Amounts related to foreign joint ventures reported in the below tables and the accompanying consolidated financial statements have subsequently been adjusted to conform with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America in all material respects. All material profits on sales recorded that remain on the balance sheet from the Company to its joint ventures and from joint ventures to other joint ventures have been eliminated for financial reporting purposes. Financial information from the audited and unaudited financial statements of the Company’s joint ventures in Germany, Excor Korrosionsschutz – Technologien und Produkte GmbH (EXCOR) and all the Company’s other joint ventures, are summarized as follows:
|  | As of August 31, 2019
|  | Total |  | EXCOR |  | All Other
Current assets |  | $ | 59,162,834 |  |  | $ | 29,139,787 |  |  | $ | 30,023,047 |
Total assets |  |  | 63,326,703 |  |  |  | 31,666,841 |  |  |  | 31,659,862 |
Current liabilities |  |  | 14,145,499 |  |  |  | 3,573,160 |  |  |  | 10,572,339 |
Noncurrent liabilities |  |  | 20,797 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 20,797 |
Joint ventures’ equity |  |  | 49,160,407 |  |  |  | 28,093,681 |  |  |  | 21,066,726 |
Northern Technologies International Corporation’s share of joint ventures’ equity |  |  | 24,207,339 |  |  |  | 14,046,842 |  |  |  | 10,160,497 |
Northern Technologies International Corporation’s share of joint ventures’ undistributed earnings |  |  | 22,178,126 |  |  |  | 14,015,937 |  |  |  | 8,162,189 |
|  | Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2019
|  | Total |  | EXCOR |  | All Other
Net sales |  | $ | 114,635,435 |  |  | $ | 47,015,841 |  |  | $ | 67,619,594 |
Gross profit |  |  | 51,312,013 |  |  |  | 25,622,261 |  |  |  | 25,689,752 |
Net income |  |  | 14,688,999 |  |  |  | 10,827,448 |  |  |  | 3,861,551 |
Northern Technologies International Corporation’s share of equity in income of joint ventures |  |  | 7,225,518 |  |  |  | 5,415,362 |  |  |  | 1,810,156 |
Northern Technologies International Corporation’s dividends received from joint ventures |  |  | 5,039,041 |  |  |  | 3,345,600 |  |  |  | 1,693,441 |
|  | As of August 31, 2018
|  | Total |  | EXCOR |  | All Other
Current assets |  | $ | 58,086,747 |  |  | $ | 27,354,788 |  |  | $ | 30,731,959 |
Total assets |  |  | 62,803,261 |  |  |  | 30,033,750 |  |  |  | 32,769,511 |
Current liabilities |  |  | 15,991,886 |  |  |  | 4,535,954 |  |  |  | 11,455,932 |
Noncurrent liabilities |  |  | 403,653 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 403,653 |
Joint ventures’ equity |  |  | 46,407,722 |  |  |  | 25,497,796 |  |  |  | 20,909,926 |
Northern Technologies International Corporation’s share of joint ventures’ equity |  |  | 22,950,995 |  |  |  | 12,748,899 |  |  |  | 10,195,263 |
Northern Technologies International Corporation’s share of joint ventures’ undistributed earnings |  | $ | 20,921,783 |  |  | $ | 12,717,994 |  |  | $ | 8,203,789 |
|  | Fiscal Year Ended August 31, 2018
|  | Total |  | EXCOR |  | All Other
Net sales |  | $ | 120,060,897 |  |  | $ | 47,537,949 |  |  | $ | 72,522,948 |
Gross profit |  |  | 53,348,459 |  |  |  | 25,584,666 |  |  |  | 27,763,793 |
Net income |  |  | 15,300,276 |  |  |  | 11,095,523 |  |  |  | 4,204,753 |
Northern Technologies International Corporation’s share of equity in income of joint ventures |  |  | 7,527,383 |  |  |  | 5,549,765 |  |  |  | 1,977,618 |
Northern Technologies International Corporation’s dividends received from joint ventures |  | $ | 3,697,503 |  |  | $ | 2,357,544 |  |  | $ | 1,339,959 |
The Company did not make any joint venture investments during fiscal 2019 or fiscal 2018, except for the creation during fiscal 2019 of a new joint venture in Vietnam which the Company indirectly owns through its ownership interest in NTI Asean.

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