Ryan Manufacturing's sales amounted to $590,000 for 2002. This amount is 15% higher than the prior year. Cost of sales amounted to 60% of sales in 2002 and 64% of sales in 2001. Ryan has identified the following quality costs for the two periods:
Item 2001 2002
Material and inspection $ 6,400 $ 6,600
Scrap 8,100 8,250
Employee training 16,800 14,700
Returned goods 8,700 7,300
System design changes 16,400 16,200
Product defects discovered 9,800 8,200
Processing customer complaints7,400 6,900
Testing equipment repair 5,400 2,600
Required:
a) Classify the above costs into prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure costs.
b) Determine costs of quality as a percentage of total.
c) Determine the classified costs as a percentage of sales.
d) Determine the classified costs as a percentage of cost of sales.
e) Determine the percentage reduction or increase in costs from 2001 to 2002.
f) Analyze improvements between the two years with regards to costs of quality.
