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Other assets (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of other assets | Other assets are as follows:
|  | December 31, 2018 |  |  | December 31, 2017 |
Long term prepaid lease payments |  | $ | 1,853 |  |  | $ | 1,779 |
Other long term receivable |  | 619 |  |  | — |
Intangible assets (note 10(b)) |  | 2,916 |  |  | 938 |
Deferred financing costs (note 10(c)) |  | 1,178 |  |  | 707 |
Deferred lease inducement asset (note 10(d)) |  | 641 |  |  | 784 |
Loan to DNSS Partnership (note 13(b)) |  | 689 |  |  | 969 |
Contract costs (note 19(f)) |  | 2,308 |  |  | 422 |
|  | $ | 10,204 |  |  | $ | 5,599 |
Schedule of intangible assets | Estimated useful lives of definite lived intangible assets and corresponding amortization method are:
Assets |  | Basis |  | Rate
Internal-use software |  | Straight-line |  | 4 years
Customer contracts |  | Straight-line |  | 1 - 2 years
Favourable land lease |  | Straight-line |  | 27 years
Assembled workforce |  | Straight-line |  | 5 years
Partnership relationship |  | Straight-line |  | 5 years
Brand |  | Straight-line |  | 5 years
December 31, 2018 |  | Cost |  |  | Accumulated amortization |  |  | Net book value |
Internal-use software |  | $ | 11,925 |  |  | $ | 11,019 |  |  | $ | 906 |
Other intangible assets |  | 2,010 |  |  | — |  |  | 2,010 |
|  | $ | 13,935 |  |  | $ | 11,019 |  |  | $ | 2,916 |
December 31, 2017 |  | Cost |  |  | Accumulated amortization |  |  | Net book value |
Internal-use software |  | $ | 18,188 |  |  | $ | 17,250 |  |  | $ | 938 |
Schedule of estimated amortization expense for future years | The estimated amortization expense for future years is as follows:
For the year ending December 31, |  |
2019 |  | $ | 734 |
2020 |  | 664 |
2021 |  | 470 |
2022 |  | 439 |
2023 and thereafter |  | 609 |
|  | $ | 2,916 |
Schedule of deferred finance costs |
|  | December 31, 2018 |  |  | December 31, 2017 |
Cost |  | $ | 1,575 |  |  | $ | 821 |
Accumulated amortization |  | 397 |  |  | 114 |
|  | $ | 1,178 |  |  | $ | 707 |
Schedule of deferred lease inducement assets |
|  | December 31, 2018 |  |  | December 31, 2017 |
Balance, beginning of year |  | $ | 784 |  |  | $ | 927 |
Amortization |  | (143 | ) |  | (143 | )
Balance, end of year |  | $ | 641 |  |  | $ | 784 |

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