Quality Management Fundamentals(CPE Course)

CPE Credit: 3 hours

Course Type: Downloaded PDF materials with online test

Price (with PDF Textbook): $35

Course Description
The cost of quality is enormous, and can make the difference between industry-leading profits and sustained losses. In the Quality Management Fundamentals course, we describe the nature of quality, why it costs so much, and how to reduce that cost. The course covers a variety of topics, including total quality control, lean practices, process control, failure prevention, and root cause analysis. It also addresses supplier quality management and quality metrics. In short, this course is designed to give anyone a solid foundation in quality concepts and how to improve quality within a business.

Author: Steven Bragg

Course Number: PR1006

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Overview of Quality Management
Chapter 2. Process Control
Chapter 3. Quality Management Tools
Chapter 4. Supplier Quality Management
Chapter 5. Quality Metrics

Learning Objectives

  • State how customers perceive quality.

  • Specify the characteristics of kaizen.

  • Describe the 14 points of management promulgated by William Edwards Deming.

  • Identify the types of waste reduction used in a lean practices initiative.

  • Specify how product audits are conducted.

  • Identify the issues with acceptance testing.

  • Recall the differences between median, mode, and mean.

  • Specify the characteristics of a control chart.

  • Describe how a cause-and-effect diagram is used.

  • Specify the nature of a Pareto analysis.

  • Specify how the plan-do-check-act cycle works.

  • Recall the typical contents of a supplier scorecard.

  • Recall the different types of quality metrics, and how they are calculated.

Level: Overview

Instructional Method: QAS Self-Study

NASBA Category: Production

Prerequisites: None

Advance Preparation: None

Latest Review Date: June 2023

Program Registration Requirements: Click on "Purchase Course" near the top of this page to pay for and access the course. You will then be able to download the course as a PDF file, then take an on-line examination, and then download a certificate of completion if you pass the examination.

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AccountingTools, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have the final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

The NASBA sponsor identification number for Accountingtools, Inc. is 115881.

AccountingTools is an IRS Approved Continuing Education Provider. We are compliant with the requirements for continuing education providers (as described in sections 10.6 and 10.9 of the Department of Treasury’s Circular No. 230 and in other IRS guidance, forms, and instructions). Our IRS Approved Continuing Education Provider number is 72821.