1. All interim dividends must be appropriately annualized before adding up with the year-end final dividends in order to determine the true dollar value of yearly dividends received by the shareholders. For companies that have paid interim dividends, assume that those dividends were paid at the end of the first half of the year and therefore earn six months of interest at a risk-free rate for the next half. The current Australian Government 10-year bonds rate is 2.72% p.a.