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You are working for an imports-exports company. In the current financial year, your company has a net income of $851,000 and plans to use a part of it as retained earnings for a new project which will cost $500,000 next year. The company's stock is currently listed and actively traded on ASX.
Required:
-Calculate the amount of net income available for the company to pay dividends to current shareholders if it maintains a capital structure of 46% in debt funding and 54% in equity funding, assuming residual dividend theory applies.
-Your company is going to pay an annual dividend of $5 per share and extra dividend of $2 per share in 4 weeks. The standard process of settlement in ASX is T+2. If tomorrow is the ex-dividend date, when is the record date for dividend payment? calculate the ex-dividend price if today's market price is $43.5, given the dividend tax rate is 13%.
-Your company needs to make a payment of AUD 245,000 to a partner in Tokyo. If the direct quote of Japanese Yen in Sydney is 0.004782, how much Japanese Yen the partner in Tokyo will receive?
-Your company has an extra cash of A$216 000. The AUD/USA exchange rate in New York is 0.77923. The USD/AUD rate in Sydney is 1.29135. Is there any arbitrage profit possible? Set up an arbitrage scheme with the extra cash, disregarding bid-ask spread. What is the potential gain in AUD dollar?