Cost of quality

Managerial Accounting
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Cost of quality
Managers at Walla-Walla LTD want to determine the company’s cost of quality. The following information has been gathered from the records for August:

Defective units 9,000
Units reworked 1,800
Defective units returned 600
Appraisal costs $26,250
Cost per unit for rework $18
Prevention costs $127,500
Profit per good unit produced and sold $85
Profit per defective unit sold $43
Cost per unit for customer returns $14
Cost of warranty work $13,500

Compute the following:
a. Lost profits from selling defective work $Answer
b. Total costs of failure $Answer
c. Total quality cost $Answer

 

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