Managerial Accounting
Managerial Accounting
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ISBN: 9781337912020
Author: Carl Warren, Ph.d. Cma William B. Tayler
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
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Chapter 13, Problem 4PB

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:

Chapter 13, Problem 4PB, Pareto chart and cost of quality report for a manufacturing company The president of Mission Inc.

The production process is complicated by quality problems, requiring the production manager to expedite production and dispose of scrap.

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  1. 1. Prepare a Pareto chart of the company activities.
  2. 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. 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. 4. Determine the percentages of total costs that are value-added and non-value-added.
  5. 5. Interpret the information.
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