$($Evaluating liquidity$)$ Aylward Inc. currently has $$2,166,000$ in current assets and $$845,000$ in current lizbilities. The company's managers want to increase the firm's inventory, which will be finance by a shori$-$term note with the bank. What level of inventories can the firm carry without its current ratio falling below $2\mathrm{.}2?$

The cost of the additional inventory financed with the short$-$term note is $ $($Round to the nearest dollar.$)$