Abstract:

Today, as a result of intensive competition, it is necessary both for manufacturing and service industries to produce goods and services at minimum cost, with zero defect and on a just in time basis. In other words, quality, agility, and cost saving are crucial factors for companies to gain a sustainable competitive advantage. That is why companies have always been in an effort to provide relevant, reliable, and comparable information. Costing systems and methods have become insufficient for supporting managers to make better decision because of changes in social, technological, economic, and market environment. Since the quality has become an important factor for competitive advantage, it was realized that separating quality costs incurred in every stage of value chain and hidden in total costs has an important effect on decisions of managers. Quality costs have a distinctive importance for service businesses. This study aims to provide suggestions for a better cost management by extracting quality costs from costing system of a public hospital and addressing the importance of it

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