Texas Instruments BA II Plus Financial Calculator by Texas Instruments
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Digital camera reviews of Texas Instruments BA II Plus Financial Calculator
Digital camera Review: CFA Exam Necessity
Summary: 5 Stars
Your choice for the CFA Exam - if you're short on cash - and time - on the exam. The HP is much slower, less user-friendly.Digital camera Review: CFA users Choose TI BAII Plus
Summary: 3 Stars
This review is directed toward those taking the CFA exams. The TI BA II plus calculator is more straight forward than the HP 12C for the range of questions asked on the CFA. The BA II Plus calculates faster than the HP, and is less expensive.
If you need the button quality and durablity of the HP 12C unit, upgrade and buy the TI BA II Plus "professional" - this unit has a brushed aluminum case and buttons similar to a HP 12C and costs around $50 - similar to a HP 12C.
When doing uneven cash flow problems the registers to the TI are all labeled so you can quickly enter data giving greater confidence with improved speed to your answers for NPV and IRR calculations.
I still have two or three HP 12C's around, but they aren't as intuitive as the TI for the CFA Exam. If you are taking the exam - the TI is the way to go.
Digital camera Review: Calculator
Summary: 5 Stars
this calculator arrive in great shape and is very useful for my class. thank you so much.
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Digital camera Review: Calculators are cool devices
Summary: 5 Stars
This calculator is just what I need for school I can use it to do all the work for me with out thinking in my head. It even has a way that you can do fractions. I do hate that sometimes the screen has a glare were you can't see the numbers. This thing last a very long time the batteries hadden't ran out on mine's yet.Digital camera Review: Comparison of TI BAII Plus, HP 12C and HP 17BII
Summary: 5 Stars
Texas Instruments, inventors of the pocket calculator, have done it again with the BAII Plus. This is an extremely fast little beast with a lot of functionality. It outstrips even the more expensive competition with a higher number of functions. You have to look to the HP 17BII to cover all the same bases and even then in some case you will have to work around problems. For instance, the BAII Plus allows differing compounding periods to payment periods. You can even calculate bonds to call as well as yield.Sadly there is one serious problem with the machine. Strictly speaking it is not year 2000 compliant. Your date range is 1950 - 1949 and can only be entered as two digit years. TI have no work around for this either.
If you just want to number crunch all day long, this calculator gets my vote. Everything is in front of you on the keypad, you don't have to navigate around registers or menus. The keyboard is light and sensitive and easy to use. And the way the functions work together is very flexible.
The HP 12C. What can I say about this beautiful piece of craftsmanship. This not just a calculator, but an example of fine engineering. Sort of in the same league as a vintage car. You can almost here the engine purring gently when you turn it on. In comparison with the BAII Plus and the 17BII it lacks functionality. You will also see criticisms of its speed. But in reality this is untrue. What the 12C lacks in processing speed (and the difference is so slight that your calculations won't be affected) it makes up for in form factor and ruggedness. Don't underestimate this. The keyboard is industrial strength and so is the case. You can sit there banging away in RPN with one hand without even looking whilst you follow columns of figures with the other. You gain the best of both worlds between a heavy duty desk top calc and a neat pocket calculator. There is one other big advantage, which is the wealth of tutorials guides and papers about using it available for free on the internet.
But for uncompromising power, the HP 17BII is, for me, the ultimate financial calculator. It isn't as cumbersome as the 19BII but has everything I need from that calculator. The functionality is comprehensive, and where you might find limitations it gives you accurate work-arounds. The solver is indispensible. You can enter a formula and set up variables to enter as if you were using built in functionality. And it will solve for which ever variable is missing. Did you get that? - it actually does the algebra for you!!!
The 17BII is fast and rugged and I haven't yet found something I can't solve either through the built in functions or by programming it.