Classify costs along the value chain for a manufacturer (Learning Objectives 2,3) Suppose the cell phone manufacturer Samsung Electronics provides the following information for its costs last month (in hundreds of thousands):

Requirements 1.Use the following format to classify each cost according to its place in the value chain. {Hint: You should have at least one cost in each value-chain function.)

2. Compute the total costs for each value-chain category.
3. How much are the total inventoriable product costs?
4. How much are the total prime costs?
5. How much are the total conversion costs?

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Salaries of telephone salespeople Depreciation on plant and equipment $ 5 Transmitters....... $61 65 Rearrange production process to accommodate new robot 2 Exterior case for phone.......... 6 Assembly-line workers' wages.... 10 Salaries of scientists who developed new model... 12 Technical customer support hotline................ 3 Delivery expense to customers via UPS............. 7 1-800 (toll-free) line for customer orders....... 1