Managerial Accounting: An Introduction To Concepts, Methods, And Uses

1. Managerial Accounting: An Introduction To Concepts, Methods, And Uses Chapter 4 Strategic Management of Costs, Quality, and Time Maher, Stickney and Weil

2. Learning Objectives(Slide 1 of 2) • Distinguish between the traditional view of quality and the quality-based view. • Define quality according to the customer. • Compare the costs of quality control to the costs of failing to control quality. • Explain why firms make trade-offs in quality control costs and failure costs.

3. Learning Objectives(Slide 2 of 2) • Describe the tools firms use to identify quality control problems. • Explain why just-in-time requires total quality management. • Explain why time is important in a competitive environment. • Explain how activity-based management can reduce customer response time. • Explain how traditional managerial accounting systems require modifications to support total quality management.

4. Explain Traditional Versus Quality-Based View

5. What is quality according to the customer?

6. List Some Examples of Performance Measures

7. Quality Control • Improving quality may be costly, but failing to improve quality may be equally costly • Costs of controlling and improving quality include what?

8. Prevention Costs What are some prevention costs?

9. Appraisal Costs • Costs to detect individual units of products that do not conform to specifications include:

10. Costs of Failing to Control & Improve Quality(Slide 1 of 2) • Internal failure costs - costs of detecting nonconforming products and services before delivery to customers • Scrap • Rework to correct defects • Reinspection/retesting after completing rework

11. Costs of Failing to Control & Improve Quality(Slide 2 of 2) • External failure costs - costs of detecting nonconforming products and services after delivery to customers • Warranty repairs • Product liability resulting from product failure • Marketing costs to improve tarnished company image • Lost sales from customer dissatisfaction

12. Identifying Quality Problems • Signals provided by these tools may be: • Warnings - indicate that something is wrong • Diagnostic- suggest cause of problem and possible solutions

13. Explain Control Charts

14. Discuss Pareto Charts

15. Review Cause-and-Effect Analysis

16. JIT and Total Quality Management • Just-In-Time philosophy requires high quality standards • System must immediately correct problems resulting in defective units • JIT helps prevent production problems from going undetected • Also requires a smooth production flow without downtime to correct problems

17. Importance of Time in a Competitive Environment • Competitive markets demand shorter new-product development and more rapid response to customers • Customer response time falls into two categories: • New-product development time • Operational measures of time

18. Comment on New-Product Development Time

19. What is break-even time?

20. What are operational measures of time?

21. Activity-Based Management to Improve Customer Response Time • ABM helps improve customer response time by identifying : • Activities that consume the most resources, both in dollars and time • Non-value-added activities

22. Describe Customer Response Time

23. Balanced Scorecard • Reports an integrated group of financial and nonfinancial performance measures, includes the following four areas • Financial • Internal business processes • Learning and Growth • Customer

24. Draw a Balanced Scorecard & Include Sample Measures

25. Review Total Quality Management

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