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Payment of intangible assets per month.

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The aggregate expense charged against earnings to allocate the cost of intangible assets (nonphysical assets not used in production) in a systematic and rational manner to the periods expected to benefit from such assets. As a noncash expense, this element is added back to net income when calculating cash provided by or used in operations using the indirect method.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The amount of impairment loss recognized in the period resulting from the write-down of the carrying amount of a finite-lived intangible asset to fair value.

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The remaining balance of debt issuance expenses that were capitalized and are being amortized against income over the lives of the respective bond issues. This does not include the amounts capitalized as part of the cost of the utility plant or asset.

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Intangible Assets (Details Narrative) - USD ($)		9 Months Ended
Intangible Assets (Details Narrative) - USD ($)	Jul. 31, 2018	Sep. 30, 2018	Sep. 30, 2017
Goodwill [Line Items]
Amortization of intangibles		$ 407,034	$ 513,881
Non-Compete Letter Agreement [Member] \| Former President and Chief Executive Officer [Member]
Goodwill [Line Items]
Amortization of intangibles	$ 304,000
Agreement description	The Agreement called for payments of $16,000 per month, for a period of 19 months, as consideration for the two-year non-competition and non-solicitation restrictive covenants. The Company recorded the aggregate cost of the Agreement of $304,000 as an intangible asset to be amortized over the 24-month period commencing August 1, 2018.
Payment of intangible assets per month	$ 16,000
Fortress Credit Co LLC [Member]
Goodwill [Line Items]
Written down of intangible asset		2,655,000
Unamortized debt issuance costs		$ 295,470