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1. Define quality, describe the four types of quality costs, discuss the approaches used for quality cost measurement, and prepare a quality cost report.
2. Explain why quality cost information is needed and how it is used.
3. Describe and prepare three different types of quality performance reports.
4. Explain how environmental costs can be measured and reduced.
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Costs of Quality
• Quality-linked activities– Activities performed because poor quality may
or does exist– Control activities
• performed by an organization• to prevent or detect poor quality
– Failure activities• Performed by an organization or its customers• In response to poor quality
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• Categories of quality costs– Prevention costs: incurred to prevent poor quality in
product or services from being produced– Appraisal costs: Incurred to determine whether
products and services are conforming• Product acceptance: sample finished goods• Process acceptance: sample goods while in process
– Internal failure costs: incurred because products or services do not conform; discovered prior to delivery
– External failure costs: incurred because products or services do not conform; discovered after delivery
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Costs of Quality
• Quality cost– Observable
• Available from the accounting records
– Hidden• Opportunity costs resulting from poor quality
• Estimating hidden quality costs– The multiplier method– The market research method
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Assumes that the total failure cost is simply some multiple of measured failure costs:
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Multiplier Method
If k = 4, and the measured external failure costs are $3 million, then the actual external failure costs are estimated to be $12 million.
Total external Measured external=failure cost failure costk
where k is the multiplier effect
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Uses formal market research methods to assess the effect of poor quality on sales and market share.
Market research results can be used to project future profit losses attributable to poor quality.
Market Research Method
Customer surveys and interviews with members of a company’s sales force can provide significant insights into the magnitude of a company’s hidden costs.
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a Actual sales of $5,000,000.
Costs of Quality
b $1,000,000 ÷ $5,000,000 = 20%.
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Quality Cost Information and Decision Making
Strategic Pricing
Revenues (1,000,000 @ $20) 20,000,000$ Quality costs (estimated):Cost of goods sold (15,000,000) Inspection - materials 200,000$ Operating expenses (3,000,000) Scrap 800,000 Product-line income 2,000,000$ Rejects 500,000
Rework 400,000 Product inspection 300,000 Warranty work 1,000,000