The National Association for Healthcare Quality announced a new campaign July 1 aimed at underscoring the importance of the quality at healthcare facilities nationwide. Dubbed “The Power of Q,” the ...

An umbrella term for analyzing adherence to a set of standards or specifications for a product. Quality control covers many testing methods. See software quality assurance and software testing. THIS ...

Quality control starts with an inspection of the finished product, but this method does not affect quality. For continuous quality improvements, you have to combine the inspection with methods that ...

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Quality control is more than just keeping track of the number of products produced. It helps manufacturers increase productivity and improve the overall health of the company. Product quality is ...

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a series to help practitioners learn about the AICPA’s new quality management standards and prepare to implement them. In June 2022, the AICPA’s Auditing ...

When customers feel that they can count on the consistent quality of your products, they're more likely to give you their repeat business. Consistent quality takes hard work, attention to detail and ...

In June 2022, the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board (ASB) and Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC) issued interrelated final standards on quality management intended to clarify and improve ...

Traditional outlier and quality control methodologies often assume that data will conform to ideal, Gaussian distributions. In practice, this is rarely the case. Upstream variability in ...

When my co-founders and I graduated from college, the Great Recession was in full swing. Jobs were scarce. Local opportunities for entrepreneurship required money we didn’t have. So, we did what any ...