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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:
|
activities |
activity Cost |
|
Correcting invoice errors |
$Â Â Â 7,500 |
|
Disposing of incoming materials with poor quality |
15,000 |
|
Disposing of scrap |
27,500 |
|
Expediting late production |
22,500 |
|
Final inspection |
20,000 |
|
Inspecting incoming materials |
5,000 |
|
Inspecting work in process |
25,000 |
|
Preventive machine maintenance |
15,000 |
|
Producing product |
97,500 |
|
Responding to customer quality complaints |
    15,000 |
|
Total |
$250,000 |
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The production process is complicated by quality problems, requiring the production manager to expedite production and dispose of   scrap.
Instructions1.    Prepare a Pareto chart of the company activities.
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.    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.    Determine the percentages of total costs that are value- and non-value-added.
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Interpret the information.
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