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Iota Industries is an all-equity firm with 50 million shares outstanding. Iota has $200 million in cash and expects future free cash flows of $75 million per year. Management plans to use the cash to expand the firm's operations, which in turn will increase future free cash flows by 12%. Iota's cost of capital is 10% and assumes that capital markets are perfect.
-What impact did the introduction of a dividend imputation system have on Australian firms' financial policies?
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Variable Expenses

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Transfer Price

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Variable Cost

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