COST ACCOUNTING
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Author: Horngren
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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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Chapter 19 Solutions
COST ACCOUNTING
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