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Cost of Quality and Value-Added/Non-Value-Added Reports for a Service Company
Three Rivers Inc. provides cable TV and Internet service to the local community. The activities and activity costs of Three Rivers are identified as follows:
a. Identify the cost of quality classification for each activity and whether the activity is value-added or non-value-added.
| Quality Control Activities | Activity Cost | Quality Cost Classification | Value-Added/ Non-Value-Added Classification  | 
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| Billing error correction | $27,100 | External failure | Non-value-added | |
| Cable signal testing | 94,400 | Appraisal | Value-added | |
| Reinstalling service (installed incorrectly the first time) | 58,400 | External failure | Non-value-added | |
| Repairing satellite equipment | 41,300 | Internal failure | Non-value-added | |
| Repairing underground cable connections to the customer | 17,600 | External failure | Non-value-added | |
| Replacing old technology cable with higher quality cable | 133,800 | Prevention | Value-added | |
| Replacing old technology signal switches with higher quality switches | 152,900 | Prevention | Value-added | |
| Responding to customer home repair requests | 32,600 | External failure | Non-value-added | |
| Training employees | 31,900 | Prevention | Value-added | |
| Total activity cost | $590,000 | |||
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b. Prepare a cost of quality report. Assume that sales are $2,950,000. If required, round percentages to two decimal places.
| Three Rivers Inc. | |||
| Cost of Quality Report | |||
| Quality Cost Classification | Quality Cost | Percent of Total Quality Cost | Percent of Total Sales | 
| Prevention | $ | % | % | 
| Appraisal | % | % | |
| Internal failure | % | % | |
| External failure | % | % | |
| Total | $ | % | % | 
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c. Prepare a value-added/non-value-added analysis.
| Three Rivers Inc. | ||
| Value-Added/Non-Value-Added Activity Analysis | ||
| Category | Amount | Percent | 
| Value-added | $ | % | 
| Non-value-added | % | |
| Total | $ | % |