As companies look at ways of saving money, eliminating costly mistakes will provide both a financial and operational improvement to quality and cost management.Haste can make waste and cost your company added expenses that could have been easily avoided. Taking the time to analyze the costs of exceptions such as manual checks or rework in general will prove that hard and soft costs are significantly more expensive than if the product had produced as it should. Though this example focuses, on a payroll check, it can be applied to almost any exception or flaw in a process.