Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment
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Author: HILTON, Ronald
Publisher: MCGRAW-HILL HIGHER EDUCATION
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Chapter 8, Problem 39P
Advanced Technologies (AT) produces two compression machines that are popular with manufacturers of plastics: no. 165 and no. 172. Machine no. 165 has an average selling price of $60,000, whereas no. 172 typically sells for approximately $55,000. The company is very concerned about quality and has provided the following information:
Required:
- 1. Classify the preceding costs as prevention, appraisal, internal failure, or external failure.
- 2. Using the classifications in requirement (1), compute AT’s quality costs for machine no. 165 in dollars and as a percentage of sales revenues. Also calculate prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure costs as a percentage of total quality costs.
- 3. Repeat requirement (2) for machine no. 172.
- 4. Comment on your findings, noting whether the company is “investing” its quality expenditures differently for the two machines.
- 5. Quality costs can be classified as observable or hidden. What are hidden quality costs, and how do these costs differ from observable costs?
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