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Introduction: When the product meets its design specifications and does not contain any defects it is said to have high-quality conformance. The company incurs several costs to reduce the defects in the product which lowers the quality of conformance. This can be classified into prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, and external failure costs.
To classify: Costs into prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, and external failure costs.
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Introduction: The prevention costs and the appraisal costs are costs incurred to avoid the poor quality of conformance. The internal failure costs and the external failure costs are incurred after the poor quality of conformance has occurred.
The costs incurred to keep the poor quality of conformance from occurring and the costs incurred because the poor quality of conformance has occurred.
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- Classify the following quality costs as prevention, appraisal, internal failure, or external failure. Also, label each cost as variable or fixed with respect to sales volume. 1. Quality engineering 2. Scrap 3. Product recalls 4. Returns and allowances because of quality problems 5. Sales data re-entered because of keying errors 6. Supervision of in-process inspection 7. Quality circles 8. Component inspection and testing 9. Quality training 10. Reinspection of reworked product 11. Product liability 12. Internal audit assessing the effectiveness of quality system 13. Disposal of defective product 14. Downtime attributable to quality problems 15. Quality reporting 16. Proofreading 17. Correction of typing errors 18. In-process inspection 19. Process controls 20. Pilot studiesarrow_forwardWhich of the following quality costs is an internal failure cost? a. Inspection of reworked units b. Lost sales because of products failing to meet specifications c. Replacing a defective product d. Training production line workers in new quality proceduresarrow_forwardWhich of the following is a prevention cost? a. Inspection of materials. b. Continuing supplier verification. c. Prototype inspection. d. Recalls.arrow_forward
- Rector Corporation is examining its quality control program. Which of the following statements is/ are correct?I. Rework costs should be regarded as a cost of quality when the rework is caused by internal failure. II. Prevention costsare costs that are incurred to prevent the sale and production of defective units. III. Internal failure costs are costs of failureof machinery on the production line.1. I, II, and III are correct.2. II only is correct.3. I and III only are correct.4. I only is correct.arrow_forwardIdentify and Classify the following activities as per their respective categories under quality costs: 1.Lost profit from lost sales from bad review 2.Unplanned replacement 3.Correction and customer support 4.Reprocessing waste 5.Accuracy check and supplier verification 6.Cost of rejected unitsarrow_forwardIdentify the type of quality cost as per total quality cost concept: A.Lost profit from lost sales from bad review B.Unplanned replacement C.Customer support D.Reprocessing wastearrow_forward
- Which of the following would be classified as an external failure cost on a quality cost report? Multiple Choice O Reentering data because of keying errors. Customer returns arising from quality problems. Test and inspection of in-process goods. Rework labor and overhead.arrow_forwardSpending on testing a product before shipment to customers is what type of quality cost? External failure cost Prevention cost Appraisal cost None of the abovearrow_forwardAll of the following are internal failure cost except: Downtime caused by quality problems Debugging software errors Disposal of defective products Liability arising from defective products Rework labor and overheadarrow_forward
- 1. Which of the following is NOT a key characteristic of Conformance Costs? a) They include expenses related to preventing defects. b) They are also known as Internal Failure Costs. e) They encompass activities like employee training and quality engineering. d) They are incurred to ensure defect-free products.arrow_forwardidentify the following items as per total quality cost: 1.Reprocessing waste 2.Accuracy check 3.Cost of rejected units 4.Customer support 5.Supplier verficationarrow_forwardWhich type of quality cost is the cost incurred as a result of rectifying substandard products? A. Appraisal costs B. Internal failure costs C. External failure costs D. Prevention costsarrow_forward
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