Legal & controls
Item 3 and Item 9A as filed · every verdict is the registrant’s own sentence, printed below it · a filing that fails an extraction gate reads “not extracted”
| Fiscal year | Filed | Item 3 | ICFR | disclosure controls | material weakness | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-31 | 2025-10-28 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · There is hereby incorporated by reference the information disclosed in Note 20 - Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management has concluded that the Company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of August 31, 2025. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on that evaluation, our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our Exchange Act reports is (1) recorded, processed, summarized and reported in a timely manner, and (2) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. | ||||||
| 2024-08-31 | 2024-10-24 | in the notes | not extracted | not extracted | disclosed | EDGAR |
Item 3 · There is hereby incorporated by reference the information disclosed in Note 21 - Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management has concluded that the Company maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of August 31, 2024. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on that evaluation, our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our Exchange Act reports is (1) recorded, processed, summarized and reported in a timely manner, and (2) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Item 9A · material weakness · As disclosed in Part II Item 9A Controls and Procedures in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2023, we identified a material weakness in internal control over financial reporting as the Company did not effectively design and maintain controls over information technology (IT) general controls in one IT environment in our primary North America manufacturing businesses that are relevant to the preparation of our Consolidated Financial Statements. | ||||||
| 2023-08-31 | 2023-10-25 | in the notes | NOT effective | NOT effective | disclosed | EDGAR |
Item 3 · There is hereby incorporated by reference the information disclosed in Note 22 - Commitments and Contingencies to Consolidated Financial Statements, Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management has determined that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of August 31, 2023 because of a material weakness. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on that evaluation, our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level, due to the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting, described below, in ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our Exchange Act reports is (1) recorded, processed, summarized and reported in a timely manner, and (2) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. | ||||||
| 2022-08-31 | 2022-10-31 | in the notes | NOT effective | NOT effective | disclosed | EDGAR |
Item 3 · There is hereby incorporated by reference the information disclosed in Note 21 - Commitments and Contingencies to Consolidated Financial Statements, Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management has determined that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of August 31, 2022 because of a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on that evaluation, our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level in ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our Exchange Act reports is (1) recorded, processed, summarized and reported in a timely manner, and (2) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer, due to the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting, described below, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. | ||||||
| 2021-08-31 | 2021-10-26 | in the notes | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · There is hereby incorporated by reference the information disclosed in Note 21 - Commitments and Contingencies to Consolidated Financial Statements, Part II, Item 8 of this Form 10-K. Item 9A · ICFR · Based on this assessment, management has determined that our internal control over financial reporting as of August 31, 2021 was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on that evaluation, our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer have concluded that, as of the end of the period covered by this report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed in our Exchange Act reports is (1) recorded, processed, summarized and reported in a timely manner, and (2) accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Principal Executive Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. | ||||||
5 of 5 annual reports on record have their filing text cached on this host; the rest are listed with their EDGAR link and no extraction, because this surface never fetches from SEC on a page load.
- Item 3 and Item 9A are located in the filing HTML already cached on this host and read with the same line-anchored item matcher and largest-gap body disambiguation the filing-narrative pass uses for Item 1A and Item 7 — no fetch, no model, no summarization.
- A heading is accepted as a section only when it is not a table-of-contents row (a trailing page number), not a quoted reference in prose, and names its own section; the span must then clear a per-item length band and carry readable text after the heading. Anything that fails a gate is served as 'not extracted' with the reason — never as a default value.
- An effectiveness conclusion is read only from a sentence that names its own control set (disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting) and states an outcome. Conditional sentences — the standard limitations paragraph and forward-looking remediation language — are excluded, because they are hypotheses rather than conclusions.
- When a filing's own sentences disagree — an effective conclusion beside an unremediated material-weakness disclosure, or two conclusions of opposite sign — no verdict is asserted. A wrong 'controls were effective' reading is worse than no reading.
- Every verdict is shown beside the verbatim sentence it was read from. The excerpt is the filing's own words, capped at 1,200 characters; the filing itself is one link away.