Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Series)
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Author: Don R. Hansen, Maryanne M. Mowen
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Chapter 14, Problem 1CE
Evans Company had total sales of $3,000,000 for fiscal 20x5. The costs of quality-related activities are given below.
Required:
- 1. Prepare a quality cost report, classifying costs by category and expressing each category as a percentage of sales. What message does the cost report provide?
- 2. Prepare a bar graph and pie chart that illustrate each category’s contribution to total quality costs. Comment on the significance of the distribution.
- 3. What if, five years from now, quality costs are 7.5 percent of sales, with control costs being 65 percent of the total quality costs? What would your conclusion be?
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Walton Company has measured its quality costs for the past two years. After the company gathers its quality cost data, it summarizes those costs using the four categories shown below:
Required:
3. For this year, calculate the cost in each of the four categories as a percent of the total cost of quality.
4a. Calculate the change in total cost of quality over the two-year period.
Last Year
This Year
Prevention costs
$
339,200
$
637,000
Appraisal costs
$
467,300
$
496,000
Internal failure costs
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853,200
$
545,000
External failure costs
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Walton Company has measured its quality costs for the past two years. After the company gathers its quality cost data, it summarizes
those costs using the four categories shown below:
Prevention costs
Appraisal costs
Internal failure costs
External failure costs
Last Year
$ 353,400
$ 445,000
$ 766,300
$ 1,034,000
Required:
1. Calculate the total cost of quality last year and this year.
2. For last year, calculate the cost in each of the four categories as a percent of the total cost of quality.
3. For this year, calculate the cost in each of the four categories as a percent of the total cost of quality.
4-a. Calculate the change in total cost of quality over the two-year period.
4-b. Is performance trending in a favorable or unfavorable direction?
Required 1 Required 2
This Year
$ 611,000
$ 528,700
$ 550,000
$ 714,000
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Meargia Plastics is evaluating its plastic bottles division. The accounting manager has come up with the following data for the year: contribution margin of $570,000, controllable fixed of $228,000, and noncontrollable fixed costs of $57,000.
Required:
1. What is the controllable margin?
Controllable Margin
2. What is the total contribution by profit center (CPC)?
Chapter 14 Solutions
Cornerstones of Cost Management (Cornerstones Series)
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