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Failure Costs in Traditional Cost Accounting

Author(s): Katarzyna Michałowska
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: failures; failure costs; quality costs; repairable failures; irreclaimable failures

Summary/Abstract: Purpose – To present the way of dividing failures in manufacturing companies and to call attention to information limitations that come from financial accounting. Design/methodology/approach – In the article author implemented observation method, interviews and source analysis. Findings – Many companies are filing failures, leaving out the rest of quality costs which are not regulated by the law. Companies treat failure costs like a reason to have a financial claim from suppliers or employees, because the end product ended up irreclaimable or additional cost have to be taken to repair it. Originality/value – The article show, how to handle failure costs correlated to bad quality products.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 88 (1)
  • Page Range: 477-485
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish
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