Charles Caroll, the regional manager of Quik File, Inc., is evaluating the performance of four ecommerce tax preparation sites in his region. The following data for the past six months were presented to him by each site in accordance with the company's costs-of-quality standards of performance:

Required
1. For each site, compute the percentages of sales represented by prevention costs, appraisal costs, total costs of conformance, internal failure costs, external failure costs, total costs of nonconformance, and total costs of quality.
2. For each site, calculate the ratio of costs of conformance to costs of quality and the ratio of costs of nonconformance to costs of quality.
3. Accounting Connection –¶ Interpret the cost-of-quality data for each site. Rank the sites in terms of quality.

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Partnership Portal $5,000,000 Corporation Subchapter Sole Proprietorship S Portal $8,000,000 62,000$ 58,000$16,000 28,000 32,000 55,000 157,000 131,000 Portal Sales Prevention costs Appraisal costs Internal failure costs External failure costs Total costs of quality171,000 Portal $6,000,000 $ 20,000 15,000 40,000 35,000 $110,000 10,000,000 32,000 54,000 23,000 42,000 31,000 26,000