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Introduction: A cost-of-quality (COQ) depicts quality-related costs that a firm incurs during a reporting period. These costs are bifurcated into four categories including prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, and external failure costs.
The total cost of quality for last year and this year.
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Introduction: A cost-of-quality (COQ) report depicts quality-related costs that a firm incurs during a reporting period, that can help management as well as users to determine total spending on quality, identify the areas that need attention, and improvement, and overtime recognizes the effects of their actions on both total quality costs and the components of overall quality costs.
The cost of each category as a percent of the total cost of quality of last year.
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Introduction: A cost-of-quality (COQ) report depicts quality-related costs that a firm incurs during a reporting period, that can help management as well as users to determine total spending on quality, identify the areas that need attention, and improvement, and overtime recognizes the effects of their actions on both total quality costs and the components of overall quality costs.
The cost of each category as a percent of the total cost of quality of last year.
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Introduction: A COQ report can help management as well as users to determine total spending on quality, identify the areas that need attention, and improvement, and over time recognizes the effects of their actions on both total quality costs and the components of overall quality costs.
To discuss: The efforts of the company in managing the costs of quality over two years period and whether the performance is favorable or unfavorable and the reason for it.
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