INTANGIBLE ASSETS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

INTANGIBLE ASSETS [Abstract]

INTANGIBLE ASSETS

NOTE 5. INTANGIBLE ASSETS:

The Company’s intangible assets primarily consists of the customer lists it acquired through various acquisitions.  We amortize our intangible assets that have finite lives using either the straight-line method or based on estimated future cash flows to approximate the pattern in which the economic benefit of the asset will be utilized. Amortization expense was $2.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and September 30, 2017. This amortization expense relates to customer lists which expire through 2022.