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Apollo Education Group Inc – ‘10-K’ for 8/31/16 – ‘XML’

On:  Thursday, 10/20/16, at 4:46pm ET   ·   For:  8/31/16   ·   Accession #:  929887-16-225   ·   File #:  0-25232

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10/20/16  Apollo Education Group Inc        10-K        8/31/16   92:17M

Annual Report   —   Form 10-K   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

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                Liquidation or Succession                                        
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                Policies (Details)                                               
63: R48         Nature of Operations and Significant Accounting     HTML     28K 
                Policies (Details 2)                                             
64: R49         Nature of Operations and Significant Accounting     HTML     29K 
                Policies (Details 3)                                             
65: R50         Nature of Operations and Significant Accounting     HTML     31K 
                Policies (Details 4)                                             
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                Interests (Details 2)                                            
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                Interests (Details 3)                                            
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