ABSTRACT

Quality costs help to show the importance of quality-related activities to management; they demonstrate the cost of non-quality to an organization; they track the causes and effects of the problem, enabling the working out of solutions using quality improvement teams, and then monitoring progress. As a technique in the introduction and development of TQM, quality costing is a powerful tool for enhancing a company’s effectiveness. Quality Costing provides pragmatic advice on how to set about introducing and developing a quality costing system and using the data that emerges. This third edition (strengthened by additional data from a range of organizations) provides sound practical guidance on how to define, identify, collect, measure, analyse, report and use quality costs. This established text has proved invaluable to managers and quality professionals, students and academics alike - the new edition ensures its continued position as the leading book in the field.

part |2 pages

Part I Explaining Quality Costing

chapter 2|26 pages

Quality costing: background

chapter 3|20 pages

Definitions of quality costs

chapter 4|50 pages

Collection of quality costs

chapter 5|26 pages

Reporting of quality costs

chapter 6|16 pages

Uses of quality costs

part |2 pages

Part II Case studies

chapter 7|24 pages

Case study, company 1

chapter 8|22 pages

Case study, company 2

chapter 9|22 pages

Case study, company 3

chapter 10|18 pages

Case study, company 4

chapter 11|10 pages

Case study, company 5

chapter 12|14 pages

Case study, company 6

part |2 pages

Part III Conclusion

chapter 13|8 pages

Setting-up a quality costing system