INTANGIBLE ASSETS

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

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 $1.6 million and 2.2 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and September 30, 2018 respectively. This amortization expense relates to customer lists which expire through 2022.

During the year ended December 31, 2018, we determined, based upon the results of our annual goodwill impairment testing as further described in Note 6, that a triggering event had occurred with respect to certain customer lists contained in the reporting units where goodwill impairment was determined to have occurred, and recorded an impairment charge of $0.9 million. The determination of the fair value of intangible assets requires significant inputs, judgments and estimates. These fair value measurements, and related inputs, are considered to be Level 3 measures under the fair value hierarchy as further described in Note 12.