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Davis, Inc., had the following quality costs for the years ended December 31, 20x4 and 20x5: 20x4 20x5 Prevention costs: Quality audits $60,000 $90,000 Vendor
Davis, Inc., had the following quality costs for the years ended December 31, 20x4 and 20x5:
20x4 | 20x5 | |
Prevention costs: | ||
Quality audits | $60,000 | $90,000 |
Vendor certification | 116,500 | 174,750 |
Appraisal costs: | ||
Product acceptance | $91,000 | $136,500 |
Process acceptance | 103,000 | 112,500 |
Internal failure costs: | ||
Retesting | $92,000 | $82,000 |
Rework | 204,000 | 170,000 |
External failure costs: | ||
Recalls | $125,000 | $100,000 |
Warranty | 300,000 | 318,000 |
At the end of 20x4, management decided to increase its investment in control costs by 50 percent for each category's items with the expectation that failure costs would decrease by 20 percent for each item of the failure categories. Sales were $12,000,000 for both 20x4 and 20x5.
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1. Calculate the budgeted costs for 20x5.
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Prepare an interim quality performance report. Enter all answers as positive amounts. If there is no variance enter "0" for your answer. If the budget variance amount is unfavorable select "Unfavorable" in the last column of the table, select "Favorable" if it is favorable, or No effect if there is no change. Round percentage answers to two decimal places. For example, 5.789% would be entered as "5.79".
blank | Actual Costs | Budgeted Costs | Variance | Unfavorable, Favorable or No effect |
Prevention costs: | blank | blank | blank | blank |
Process acceptanceProduct acceptanceQuality auditsRecallsRetestingReworkWarranty | $- Select - | $- Select - | - Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Process acceptanceProduct acceptanceRecallsRetestingReworkVendor certificationWarranty | - Select - | - Select - | - Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Total prevention costs | $- Select - | $- Select - | - Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Appraisal costs: | blank | blank | blank | blank |
Product acceptanceQuality auditsRecallsRetestingReworkVendor certificationWarranty | $- Select - | $- Select - | - Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Process acceptanceQuality auditsRecallsRetestingReworkVendor certificationWarranty | - Select - | - Select - | $- Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Total appraisal costs | $- Select - | $- Select - | $- Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Internal failure costs: | blank | blank | blank | blank |
Process acceptanceProduct acceptanceQuality auditsRecallsRetestingVendor certificationWarranty | $- Select - | $- Select - | $- Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Process acceptanceProduct acceptanceQuality auditsRecallsReworkVendor certificationWarranty | - Select - | - Select - | - Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Total internal failure costs | $- Select - | $- Select - | $- Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
External failure costs: | blank | blank | blank | blank |
Process acceptanceProduct acceptanceQuality auditsRecallsRetestingReworkVendor certification | $- Select - | $- Select - | - Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Process acceptanceProduct acceptanceQuality auditsRetestingReworkVendor certificationWarranty | - Select - | - Select - | - Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNA |
Total external failure costs | $- Select - | $- Select - | $- Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Total quality costs | $- Select - | $- Select - | $- Select - | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
Percentage of sales | - Select -% | - Select -% | - Select -% | FavorableUnfavorableNo effect |
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2. What can be inferred from the report regarding the progress Davis has made?
Davis has not come close to meeting the planned outcomesDavis has come very close to meeting the planned outcomesDavis has exceeded the planned outcomes
3. What if sales were $12,000,000 for 20x4 and $15,000,000 for 20x5? What adjustment to budgeted rework costs would be made? (Note: Quality auditing is a discretionary cost and its budget is not affected by the change in sales revenue in 20x5.)
New total budgeted rework costs: $fill in the blank a3501cfaefdaf8d_2
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