EBK FINANCIAL & MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
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Chapter 27, Problem 27.4BPR
Pareto chart and cost of quality report for a manufacturing company
The president of Mission Inc. has been concerned about the growth in costs over the last several years. The president asked the controller to perform an activity analysis to gain a better insight into these costs. The activity analysis revealed the following:
Activities | Activity Cost |
Correcting invoke errors | $ 7,500 |
Disposing of incoming materials with poor quality | 15,000 |
Disposing of scrap | 27,500 |
Expediting late production | 22,500 |
Final inspection | 20,000 |
Inspecting incoming materials | 5,000 |
Inspecting work in process | 25,000 |
Preventive machine maintenance | 15,000 |
Producing product | 97,500 |
Responding to customer quality complaints | 15,000 |
Total | $250,000 |
The production process is complicated by quality problems, requiring the production manager to expedite production and dispose of scrap.
Instructions
- 1. Prepare a Pareto chart of the company activities.
- 2. Classify the activities into prevention, appraisal, internal failure, external failure, and not costs of quality (producing product). Classify the activities into value-added and non-value- added activities.
- 3. Use the activity cost information to determine the percentages of total costs that are prevention, appraisal, internal failure, external failure, and not costs of quality.
- 4. Determine the percentages of total costs that are value-added and non-value-added.
- 5. Interpret the information.
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Pareto Chart and Cost of Quality Report for a Manufacturing Company
The president of Mission Inc. has been concerned about the growth in costs over the last several years. The president asked the controller to perform an activity analysis to gain a better insight into these costs. The result of the activity analysis is summarized as follows:
Activities
Activity Cost
Correcting invoice errors
$11,250
Disposing of incoming materials with poor quality
9,000
Disposing of scrap
31,500
Expediting late production
27,000
Final inspection
22,500
Inspecting incoming materials
4,500
Inspecting work in process
22,500
Preventive machine maintenance
15,750
Producing product
67,500
Responding to customer quality complaints
13,500
Total
$225,000
The production process is complicated by quality problems, requiring the production manager to expedite production and dispose of scrap.
Required:
1. On paper or in a spreadsheet program, prepare a Pareto chart for each of the…
Pareto Chart and Cost of Quality Report for a Manufacturing Company
The president of Mission Inc. has been concerned about the growth in costs over the last several years. The president asked the controller to perform an activity analysis to gain a better insight into these costs. The activity analysis revealed the following.
The production process is complicated by quality problems, requiring the production manager to expedite production and dispose of scrap.
Required:
1. Classify the activities into prevention, appraisal, internal failure, external failure, and not costs of quality (producing product). Classify the activities into value-added and non-value added activities.
Activity
Activity Cost
Cost of Quality Classification
VA/NVA
Correcting invoice errors
$7,500
Disposing of incoming materials with poor quality
15,000
Disposing of scrap
27,500
Expediting late production
22,500
Final inspection
20,000
Inspecting incoming…
The president of Mission Inc. has been concerned about the growth in costs over the last several years. The president asked the controller to perform an activity analysis to gain a better insight into these costs. The activity analysis revealed the following:
Activities
Activity Cost
Correcting invoice errors
$8,500
Disposing of income materials with poor quality
16,000
Disposing of scrap
28,500
Expediting late production
21,500
Final inspection
19,000
Inspecting incoming materials
5,000
Inspecting work in process
25,000
Preventive machine maintenance
15,000
Producing product
95,500
Responding to customer quality complaints
15,000
Total
249,000
The production process is complicated by quality problems, requiring the production manager to expedite production and dispose of scrap.
Prepare a Pareto chart of the company activities.
Classify the activities into prevention, appraisal, internal failure,…
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