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At the beginning of the year, Bing 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, Bing's managers collected the following data for the current and preceding year:  Freceding Year  Current Year  Sales £10,000,000£10,000,000 Quality training 45,00050,000 Materials inspection 100,000140,000 Scrap 500,000450,000 Product warranty 900,000800,000 Rework 750,000600,000 Product inspection 200,000220,000\begin{array}{lrr}&\text { Freceding Year } & \text { Current Year } \\\text { Sales } & £ 10,000,000 & £ 10,000,000 \\\text { Quality training } & 45,000 & 50,000 \\\text { Materials inspection } & 100,000 & 140,000 \\\text { Scrap } & 500,000 & 450,000 \\\text { Product warranty } & 900,000 & 800,000 \\\text { Rework } & 750,000 & 600,000 \\\text { Product inspection } & 200,000 & 220,000\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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