Effect of Doubtful Accounts on Net Income

During its first year of operations, Fisher Plumbing Supply Co. had sales of $500,000, wrote off $8,000 of accounts as uncollectible using the direct write-off method, and reported net income of $55,000. Determine what the net income would have been if the allowance method had been used, and the company estimated that 1 3/4% of sales would be uncollectible.