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At the Beginning of the Year, Sherwood Company Initiated a Quality

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At the beginning of the year, Sherwood Company initiated a quality improvement program. The program was successful in reducing scrap and rework costs. To help assess the impact of the quality improvement program, Sherwood's managers collected the following data for the current and preceding year:  Preceding Year  Current Year  Sales £20,000,000£20,000,000 Quality training 40,00065,000 Scrap 400,000350,000 Materials inspection 80,00070,000 Rework 550,000500,000 Product inspection 100,000150,000 Froduct warranty 700,000600,000\begin{array} { l r r } & \text { Preceding Year } & \text { Current Year } \\\text { Sales } & £ 20,000,000 & £ 20,000,000 \\\text { Quality training } & 40,000 & 65,000 \\\text { Scrap } & 400,000 & 350,000 \\\text { Materials inspection } & 80,000 & 70,000 \\\text { Rework } & 550,000 & 500,000 \\\text { Product inspection } & 100,000 & 150,000 \\\text { Froduct warranty } & 700,000 & 600,000\end{array}
a.Compute prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, and external failure costs as a percentage of sales for the preceding year and the current year.
b.How much has profit increased as a result of quality improvements?
c.If quality costs can be reduced even further to 2.5 per cent of sales, how much additional profit would result?

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