Suppose the cell phone manufacturer Nokia provides the following information for its costs last month (in hundreds of thousands):

Requirements
1. Classify each of these costs according to its place in the value chain (R&D, Design, Production, Marketing, Distribution, or Customer Service.)
2. Within the production category, break the costs down further into three sub-categories: Direct Materials, Direct Labor, and Manufacturing Overhead.
3. Compute the total costs for each value chain category.
4. How much are the total inventoriable product costs?
5. How much are the total prime costs?
6. How much are the total conversion costs?

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Chip set. $60 Salaries of salespeople.. $ 7 production process to accommodate new robot.... Assembly-line workers' wages Technical customer-support hotline. 1-800 (toll-free) line for customer orders... s 4 12 Exterior case for phone S 6 S 2 Salaries of scientists who developed new model... $10 S 3 Delivery expense to customers via UPS