Effect of Doubtful Accounts on Net Income During its fint year of operations, Mack's Plumbing Supply Co. had sales of $3,250,000, wrote off $27,800 of accounts as uncollectible using the direct writt-off method, and reported net income of $487,500. Assume that during the second year of operations, Mack's Plumbing Supply Co. had sales of $4,100,000, wrote off $34,000 of accounts as uncollectible using the direct write-off method, and reported net income of $600,000. a. Determine what net income would have been in the second year if the allowance method (using 1% of sales) had been used in both the first and second years, x b. Determine what the balance of the allowance for doubtful accounts would have been at the end of the second vear if the allowance method had been used in both the first and second vears, Hint: Use an Allowance for Doubtful Accounts T account