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5. Software Development Costs |
5. Software Development Costs
The Company has capitalized certain costs for software developed or obtained for internal use during the application development stage as it relates to specific contracts. The amounts capitalized include external direct costs of services used in developing internal-use software and for payroll and payroll-related costs of employees directly associated with the development activities.
The following table presents details of our software development costs for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:
Software development costs are being amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful life of two years.
During the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we recorded amortization expense for software development costs of $309,736 and $326,631, respectively which is included in depreciation and amortization in the consolidated statement of operations.
During the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, we recorded no impairment charges related to our software development costs.
The estimated future amortization expense of software development costs as of December 31, 2019 is as follows:
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