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Analysis of Quality Cost Versus Sales in Three Recent Years
Analysis of Quality Cost Versus Sales in Three Recent Years
Analysis of Quality Cost Versus Sales in Three Recent Years
The following general analysis of quality costs serves as the benchmark for overall performance evaluation.
Exhibit 5 shows percentage changes in prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, external failure
costs, total quality costs, and sales revenue from year one to year two and from year two to year three. In three
recent successive years, appraisal costs increase 58.3 percent from year one to year two and 120 percent from
year two to year three because of the continuous increase in the company's market share and sales. In contrast,
during the same time period, prevention costs reduce the increasing speed from 49.5 percent to 27.5 percent due
partly to the increase of prevention costs lagging behind sales, and due chiefly to supplier auditing efforts in
year two that contributed to the decreases of prevention costs to sales percentage in year three. Internal failure
costs increase every year, but the sales still exceed them. The external failure costs decrease in year two and
increase in year three, but their ratio to sales decreases. Exhibit 5 also shows that the increasing percentages of
sales revenues are higher than total quality costs percentages in both years. The field study data also
demonstrate that the firm achieved satisfactory results by introducing TQM and quality cost control
characterized by stable product quality, fewer customer complaints, improvement in the company's goodwill,
increases in the company's core competency, and expansion of the company's market share.