In: Finance
United States Steel Corporation has a receivables collection period of thirty three days, a days inventory of sixty-eight days, and a payables period of forty-nine days. How long is its funding gap?
| a. | 
 -14 days  | 
| b. | 
 52 days  | 
| c. | 
 84 days  | 
| d. | 
 150 days  | 
Funding Gap = Average Days Inventory + average Accounts receivables days - Average payable days
= 68 + 33 - 49
= 52 Days
So, the correct answer is 52 days