Springrock & Company has accounts receivable of $79,200 and an existing positive balance of $500 in the Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts (i.e. the bad debt expense had been over estimated in the prior period). Two-thirds of the accounts receivable are current and one-third is past due. The firm estimates that 2 percent of the current accounts and 5 percent of the past due accounts will prove to be uncollectible. Compute the bad debt expense for the current period using the aging method?