Identifiable Intangible Assets and Goodwill

Identifiable intangible assets represent intangible assets acquired by the Company in connection with its acquisition of Brink Software Inc. ("Brink Acquisition"), the Drive-Thru Acquisition and the Restaurant Magic Acquisition, and software development costs. The Company capitalizes certain software development costs for software used in its Restaurant/Retail reporting segment. Software development costs incurred prior to establishing technological feasibility are charged to operations and included in research and development costs. The technological feasibility of a software product is established when the Company has completed all planning, designing, coding, and testing activities necessary to establish that the software product meets its design specifications, including functionality, features, and technical performance requirements. Software development costs incurred after establishing technological feasibility of software sold as a perpetual license, as defined within ASC 985-20, "Software – Costs of Software to be sold, Leased, or Marketed", are capitalized and amortized on a product-by-product basis when the software product is available for general release to customers. Included in "Acquired and internally developed software costs" in the table below are approximately $4.4 million and $2.5 million of costs related to software products that have not satisfied the general release threshold as of March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively. These software products are expected to satisfy the general release threshold within the next 12 months. Software development costs are also capitalized in accordance with ASC 350-40, “Intangibles - Goodwill and Other - Internal - Use Software,” and are amortized over the expected benefit period, which generally ranges from three to five years. Software development costs capitalized during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and March 31, 2019 were $1.8 million and $1.0 million, respectively.

Annual amortization, charged to cost of sales is computed using the straight-line method over the remaining estimated economic life of software products, generally three to five years. Amortization of capitalized software development costs from continuing operations for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 were $1.6 million and $0.5 million, respectively.

Amortization of intangible assets acquired in the Brink Acquisition, the Drive-Thru Acquisition and the Restaurant Magic Acquisition equaled $0.2 million, $0.2 million and $0.6 million, respectively, for the three month period ended March 31, 2020 compared to $0.2 million related to the Brink Acquisition for the three month period ended March 31, 2019.

The components of identifiable intangible assets are:



(in thousands)	March 31, 2020			December 31, 2019			Estimated Useful Life
Acquired and internally developed software costs	$	36,137		$	36,137		3 - 5 years
Customer relationships	4,860			4,860			7 years
Non-competition agreements	30			30			1 year
	41,027			41,027
Less accumulated amortization	(14,087		)	(12,389		)
	$	26,940		$	28,638
Internally developed software costs not meeting general release threshold	4,353			2,500
Trademarks, trade names (non-amortizable)	1,810			1,810			Indefinite
	$	33,103		$	32,948

The expected future amortization of intangible assets, assuming straight-line amortization of capitalized software development costs and acquisition related intangibles and excluding software costs not meeting the general release threshold, is as follows (in thousands):



2020, remaining	$	3,837
2021	4,112
2022	5,311
2023	4,182
2024	4,182
Thereafter	5,316
Total	$	26,940

The Company operates in two reporting segments, Restaurant/Retail and Government, which are also the Company's identified reporting units. The Company tests goodwill for impairment on an annual basis, or more often if events or circumstances indicate that there may be impairment of goodwill. Goodwill is assigned to a specific reporting unit at the date the goodwill is initially recorded; once assigned, goodwill no longer retains its association with a particular acquisition and all of the activities within the reporting unit, whether acquired from a third-party or organically acquired, are available to support the value of the goodwill. The amount of goodwill carried by the Restaurant/Retail and Government reporting unit was $41.4 million at March 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019, respectively. The Company recognized additions to goodwill as part of the Drive-Thru Acquisition and Restaurant Magic Acquisition as indicated in Note 3.

The Company is actively monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 that could impact the need to consider a triggering event in the future. As of December 31, 2019 and March 31, 2020, the goodwill asset balance was $41.4 million. No impairment charges were recorded for the periods ended March 31, 2020 or March 31, 2019.