Christi, Inc. is using a costs-of-quality approach to evaluate design engineering efforts for a new skateboard. Christis senior managers expect the engineering work to reduce

Christi, Inc. is using a costs-of-quality approach to evaluate design engineering efforts for a new skateboard. Christi’s senior managers expect the engineering work to reduce appraisal, internal failure, and external failure activities. The predicted reductions in activities over the two-year life of the skateboards follow. Also shown are the cost allocation rates for each activity.

Requirements
1. Calculate the predicted quality cost savings from the design engineering work.
2. Christi spent $ 103,000 on design engineering for the new skateboard. What is the net benefit of this “preventive” quality activity?
3. What major difficulty would Christi’s managers have in implementing this costs-of-quality approach? What alternative approach could they use to measure qualityimprovement?

Predicted Reduction in Activity Units 420 420 1,400 325 150 Predetermined Overhead Allocation Rate per Unit $ 37 26 56 75 103 Activity Inspection of incoming raw materials Inspection of finished goods Number of defective units discovered in-house Number of defective units discovered by customers Lost sales due to dissatisfied customers