Measuring Sustainable Earnings Harnishfeger Corporation was a mining machinery and equipment company based in Wisconsin. The company voluntarily changed its depreciation accounting policy from the accelerated method to the straight-line method. It disclosed the cumulative effect of this accounting policy change, equal to $11.005 million (net of applicable income taxes), in its financial statements. In addition, the company also voluntarily changed the estimated useful lives of certain of its U.S. plant and equipment. This estimate change increased its pretax reported profit by $3.7 million. The following are selected excerpts from the company's financial statements:

	(in thousands)
Income before income taxes, equity items, and cumulative
effect of accounting method change	$5,838
Provision for income taxes	(2,452)
Income after taxes	3,386
Equity items	858
Cumulative effect of change in depreciation method	11,005
Net income	$15,249

(a) Calculate Harnishfeger's sustainable earnings.

Round tax rate to the nearest whole percentagefor your calculation. (Example: 0.34567 = 35%) Round your answer to the nearest thousand dollar.