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Funds Held for Clients and Corporate Investments (Details 1)

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Funds Held for Clients and Corporate Investments (Details 1) (USD $) In Millions, unless otherwise specified	Feb. 28, 2015	May 31, 2014
Classification of investments on the Consolidated Balance Sheets
Funds held for clients	$ 5,090.8us-gaap_FundsHeldForClients	$ 4,198.6us-gaap_FundsHeldForClients
Corporate investments	355.5us-gaap_MarketableSecuritiesCurrent	398.7us-gaap_MarketableSecuritiesCurrent
Long-term corporate investments	408.6	385.6
Total funds held for clients and corporate investments, Fair value	5,854.9	4,982.9
Securities in an unrealized loss position
Less than twelve months, Gross unrealized losses	(0.9)	(0.1)
Less than twelve months, Fair value	268.3	118.8
Twelve months or longer, Gross unrealized losses	(0.3)	(2.9)
Twelve months or longer, Fair value	26.7	276.4
Total, Gross unrealized losses	(1.2)	(3.0)
Total, Fair value	295.0	395.2
General obligation municipal bonds [Member]
Securities in an unrealized loss position
Less than twelve months, Gross unrealized losses	(0.5)	(0.1)
Less than twelve months, Fair value	150.1	69.6
Twelve months or longer, Gross unrealized losses	(0.3)	(1.8)
Twelve months or longer, Fair value	26.7	164.0
Total, Gross unrealized losses	(0.8)	(1.9)
Total, Fair value	176.8	233.6
Pre-refunded municipal bonds [Member]
Securities in an unrealized loss position
Less than twelve months, Gross unrealized losses		0
Less than twelve months, Fair value		1.7
Twelve months or longer, Gross unrealized losses		0
Twelve months or longer, Fair value		0
Total, Gross unrealized losses		0
Total, Fair value		1.7
Revenue municipal bonds [Member]
Securities in an unrealized loss position
Less than twelve months, Gross unrealized losses	(0.4)	0
Less than twelve months, Fair value	118.2	47.5
Twelve months or longer, Gross unrealized losses	0	(1.1)
Twelve months or longer, Fair value	0	112.4
Total, Gross unrealized losses	(0.4)	(1.1)
Total, Fair value	$ 118.2	$ 159.9

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Investments in debt and equity securities which are categorized neither as held-to-maturity nor trading and which are intended to be sold or mature more than one year from the balance sheet date or operating cycle, if longer. Such securities are reported at fair value; unrealized gains (losses) related to Available-for-sale Securities are excluded from earnings and reported in a separate component of shareholders' equity (other comprehensive income), unless the Available-for-sale security is designated as a hedge or is determined to have had an other than temporary decline in fair value below its amortized cost basis. All or a portion of the unrealized holding gain (loss) of an Available-for-sale security that is designated as being hedged in a fair value hedge is recognized in earnings during the period of the hedge, as are other than temporary declines in fair value below the cost basis for investments in equity securities and debt securities that an entity intends to sell or it is more likely than not that it will be required to sell before the recovery of its amortized cost basis. Other than temporary declines in fair value below the cost basis for debt securities categorized as Available-for-sale that an entity does not intend to sell and for which it is not more likely than not that the entity will be required to sell before the recovery of its amortized cost basis are bifurcated into credit losses and losses related to all other factors. Other than temporary declines in fair value below cost basis related to credit losses are recognized in earnings, and losses related to all other factors are recognized in other comprehensive income.

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