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Consolidated financial statements COGECO CABLE INC. 2013 73
11. OTHER ASSETS
At August 31, 2013 2012
(In thousands of Canadian dollars) $ $
Transaction costs 6,925 4,274
Other 3,547 2,139
10,472 6,413
12. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
During fiscal 2013 and 2012, property, plant and equipment variations were as follows:
Years ended August 31, 2013 and 2012
Land, buildings
and leasehold
improvements
Network
systems (1) Data centre
equipment (2) Home
terminal
devices
Rolling stock
and
equipment
(3) Total
(In thousand of Canadian dollars) $ $ $ $ $ $
Cost
Balance at September 1, 2011 86,174 1,993,489 19,857 399,968 149,815 2,649,303
Acquisitions through business combinations — 37 — — — 37
Other additions 9,797 238,700 10,183 71,261 29,640 359,581
Disposals — (4,461) — (6,621) (277) (11,359)
Discontinued operations (8,555) (380,626) — (106,588) (13,590) (509,359)
Balance at August 31, 2012 87,416 1,847,139 30,040 358,020 165,588 2,488,203
Acquisitions through business combinations 59,752 261,892 67,470 30,825 32,285 452,224
Other additions 35,977 227,084 45,728 45,172 35,674 389,635
Disposals — (11,766) (2,226) (5,418) (3,269) (22,679)
Foreign currency translation adjustment 1,901 16,405 3,229 2,169 1,997 25,701
Balance at August 31, 2013 185,046 2,340,754 144,241 430,768 232,275 3,333,084
.
Accumulated depreciation and impairment
losses
Balance at September 1, 2011 25,213 1,022,655 2,360 268,669 76,189 1,395,086
Depreciation expense 3,391 136,942 5,088 88,369 20,807 254,597
Disposals — (3,687) — (4,881) (240)(8,808)
Discontinued operations (5,118) (354,980) — (102,776) (11,891) (474,765)
Balance at August 31, 2012 23,486 800,930 7,448 249,381 84,865 1,166,110
Depreciation expense 8,132 197,299 25,481 69,567 30,693 331,172
Disposals — (10,605) (2,205) (4,223) (3,088) (20,121)
Foreign currency translation adjustment 65 963 365 224 151 1,768
Balance at August 31, 2013 31,683 988,587 31,089 314,949 112,621 1,478,929
Carrying amounts
At August 31, 2012 63,930 1,046,209 22,592 108,639 80,723 1,322,093
At August 31, 2013 153,363 1,352,167 113,152 115,819 119,654 1,854,155
(1) Network systems includes cable towers, headends, transmitters, fibre and coaxial networks, customer drops, and network equipment.
(2) Data centre equipment includes general infrastructure, mechanical and electrical equipment, security and access control. Servers that are included as part
of the hosting product line are amortized on a straight-line basis over their expected useful life, which is 3 years.
(3) Rolling stock and equipment includes rolling stock, programming equipment, furniture and fixtures, computer and software, assets held under finance lease,
and other equipments.