PQ8 Chapter 8, EX15 11 eBook Calculator 1. EX.08.15 Effect of Doubtful Accounts on Net Income During its first year of operations, Mack's Plumbing Supply Co. had sales of $6,740,000, wrote off $48,600 of accounts as uncollectible using the direct write-off method, and reported net income of $712,500. Determine what the net income would have been if the allowance method had been used and the company estimated that 1% of sales would be uncollectible. X Feedback Check My Work Under the direct write-off method, Bad Debt Expense is recorded when the customer's account is determined to be worthless and written off. There is no adjusting entry at year-end to record estimated bad debt. To compute net income using the allowance method, first compute net income before write-off of accounts associated with the bad debt expense. Then determine how an amount estimated for Bad Debt Expense based on a percent of sales, would affect that net income