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Transcribed Image Text:Management of Ellen Software Services (ESS) has recently implemented a TQM program to
eliminate a serous level of "program bugs" that plagued its recent product releases. The
following activities and their costs were taken from ESS's records. The data are for 2019 (the
year prior to the TQM program) and 2021 (the year after the start of the TQM program).
2019
2021
Design documentation standards development
100,000
Documentation of customer training process
20,000
Documentation of changes to software
5,000
20,000
Customer training
100,000
130,000
Software testing - Customer site
130,000
80,000
Software – testing – pre-release
50,000
140,000
Telephone "on-line" customer problem support
90,000
60,000
Software corrections and redesign
50,000
20,000
Field "trouble shooting" for customer support
140,000
80,000
Costs of Contract cancellations
180,000
30,000
Revenues lost due to delivery date delays
120,000
Training for systems designers/programmers
100,000
250,000
Training for sales staff
10,000
80,000
Requirements:
1. Categorize the costs of quality for both years.
2. Evaluate the two years. Develop a scenario to explain the major differences in costs
between the two years. In other words, what happened?
3. If 2019 showed an operating loss and 2021 showed a small operating profit, would this
change your scenario in question no. 2 or confirm it? Explain.
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