Quality - Costing Group J
Quality - Costing Group J
Submitted To:
Rupam Chandra Banik
Cost Accounting
Quality Costing
Definition of Quality
Costs of Quality
Prevention Costs
Appraisal Costs
Internal Failure Costs & External Failure Costs
Measuring & Controlling Quality Costs
Distribution of Quality Costs
Quality Costs Reports
Uses of Quality Costs Information
International Aspects of Quality : The ISO Standards
Definition of Quality
Stated Needs:
Good quality ball point pen with metal body.
Implied Needs:
Obvious needs like for pen – Ability to write.
Costs of Quality
Quality–linked activities are those activities performed because poor quality may
or does exist. The costs of performing these activities are refereed to as costs that
exist because poor quality may or does exist.
Quality Costs
Conformance Non-Conformance
The cost incurred to avoid or minimize the number of defects as first place are known
as prevention costs.
Examples:
Quality Engineering.
Quality Training.
Quality Audits.
Supplier Evaluation.
Appraisal Costs
All costs are associated with activities that are performed during manufacturing
process.
Examples:
Inspection & Testing materials.
Product acceptance.
Process acceptance.
Supplier verification.
Internal Failure Costs
Arise from defects caught internally and dealt with by repairing the defective
items.
Examples:
Rework
Scrap
Repair
Design Change
Retesting
External Failure Costs
Examples:
Revenue loss
Warranties
Discount due to defects
Returns & Allowance
Products Insurance
Product Liability
Controlling Quality Costs
The process of inspecting products to ensure that they meet the required quality
standards known as quality control. Quality control is based on the concept of
“Defect Detection”.
Examples of Activities:
Establishing specification, standards and tolerance for product and processes.
Inspecting (input goods and output products).
Monitoring production process.
Identifying defective items or identifying inefficiencies in process.
Cost of quality data can be measured and presented in many different wages.
% age of sales.
% age of profits.
% age of manufacturing cost.
BDT per direct labor hour.
BDT per unit of product.
Distribution Cost of Quality
Appraisal Costs:
Inventory inspection 50,000 5.05 50,000 3.32
Reliability testing 32,000 3.23 30,000 1.99
Testing equipment(depreciation) 22,000 2.22 24,000 1.60
Supplies 14,000 1.41 16,000 1.06
Total Appraisal
118,000 11.92% 120,000 7.98%
Internal Failure Cost:
Scrap $48,000 4.85% $80,000 5.32%
Repair and rework 98,000 9.90 220,000 14.63
Downtime 24,000 2.42 40,000 2.66
Reinspection 8,000 0.81 24,000 1.60
Total Internal failure 178,000 17.98% 364,000 24.20%
Just as a company assesses the quality of its suppliers, that same company may supply
other companies that require vendor certification of quality. A relatively new program
called ISO 9000 has evolved in response to the need for standardized set of procedures
for supplier quality verification.