Question

Id 490
Number 5
Description In 2018, a company using US GAAP made cash payments of USD6 million for salaries , USD2 million for interest expense, and USD4 million for income taxes. Additional information for the company is provided in the Exhibit 1: <table style="width:90%;text-align:center"> <caption>Exhibit 1: Cash Payments</caption> <tr><th class="left">(US dollars, millions) </th><th>2017 </th><th>2018</th></tr> <tr><td class="left">Revenue </td><td>42</td><td> 37</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Cost of goods sold </td><td>18 </td><td>16</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Inventory </td><td>36 </td><td>40</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Accounts receivable </td><td>22 </td><td>19</td></tr> <tr><td class="left">Accounts payable </td><td>14 </td><td>12</td></tr> </table> Based only on the information in Exhibit 1, the company ’s operating cash flow for 2018 is closest to: