Christi, Inc. is using a costs-of-quality approach to evaluate design engineering efforts for a new skateboard. Christis

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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.


Christi, Inc. is using a costs-of-quality approach to evaluate design


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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?

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