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Chapter 19, Problem 19.21E
Costs of quality, quality improvement. iCover produces bags for carrying laptop computers. iCover sells 1,000,000 units each year at a price of $20 per unit and a contribution margin of 40%.
To respond to customer complaints, iCover’s mangers want to modify the production processes to produce higher-quality products.
The current costs of quality are as follows:
| Prevention costs | $400,000 |
| Appraisal costs | $150,000 |
| Internal failure costs | |
| Rework | $325,000 |
| Scrap | $ 75,000 |
| External failure costs | |
| Product repair costs | $400,000 |
| Lost sales from customer returns | $650,000 |
- 1. Which costs of quality category are managers focusing on? Why?
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- 2. If the improvements result in a 55% decrease in product repair costs and a 70% decrease in lost sales from customer returns, what is the impact on the overall COQ and the company’s operating income? What should iCover do? Explain.
- 3. Calculate prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure costs as a percentage of total quality costs and as a percentage of sales before and after the change in the production process. Comment briefly on your results.
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MyLab Accounting with Pearson eText -- Access Card -- for Horngren's Cost Accounting
Ch. 19 - Describe two benefits of improving quality.Ch. 19 - Prob. 19.2QCh. 19 - Name two items classified as prevention costs.Ch. 19 - Give two examples of appraisal costs.Ch. 19 - Distinguish between internal failure costs and...Ch. 19 - Describe three methods that companies use to...Ch. 19 - Companies should focus on financial measures of...Ch. 19 - Give two examples of nonfinancial measures of...Ch. 19 - Give two examples of nonfinancial measures of...Ch. 19 - When evaluating alternative ways to improve...
Ch. 19 - Distinguish between customer-response time and...Ch. 19 - Prob. 19.12QCh. 19 - Give two reasons why delays occur.Ch. 19 - Companies should always make and sell all products...Ch. 19 - Prob. 19.15QCh. 19 - Rector Corporation is examining its quality...Ch. 19 - Six Sigma is a continuous quality improvement...Ch. 19 - Costs of quality. (CMA, adapted) Osborn, Inc.,...Ch. 19 - Costs of quality analysis. Adirondack Company...Ch. 19 - Costs-of-quality analysis. Safe Travel produces...Ch. 19 - Costs of quality, quality improvement. iCover...Ch. 19 - Prob. 19.22ECh. 19 - Prob. 19.23ECh. 19 - Waiting time. Its a Dogs World (IDW) makes toys...Ch. 19 - Waiting time, service industry. The registration...Ch. 19 - Waiting time, cost considerations, customer...Ch. 19 - Nonfinancial measures of quality and time. For the...Ch. 19 - Nonfinancial measures of quality, manufacturing...Ch. 19 - Statistical quality control. Harvest Cereals...Ch. 19 - Quality improvement, Pareto diagram,...Ch. 19 - Quality improvement, relevant costs, and relevant...Ch. 19 - Quality improvement, relevant costs, and relevant...Ch. 19 - Waiting times, manufacturing cycle times. The...Ch. 19 - Prob. 19.34PCh. 19 - Manufacturing cycle times, relevant revenues, and...Ch. 19 - Compensation linked with profitability, waiting...Ch. 19 - Ethics and quality. Weston Corporation...Ch. 19 - Prob. 19.38P
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