What is another word for quality related costs?
Pronunciation: [kwˈɒlɪti ɹɪlˈe͡ɪtɪd kˈɒsts] (IPA) 
Quality related costs refers to all the expenses incurred while ensuring that a product or service meets the prescribed standard. These expenses could be categorized into different groups such as prevention costs, appraisal costs, internal failure costs, and external failure costs. To describe quality related costs in other words, one could use terms such as production expenses, expenses for complying with standards, inspection or quality control costs, repair or rework expenses, warranty expenses, customer complaints handling expenses, and the like. The use of these synonyms for quality related costs helps in understanding the different subcategories of expenses that are incurred to ensure that the product or service meets the expected quality level.
