Texas Instruments BA II Plus Professional Financial Calculator by Texas Instruments
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Digital camera reviews of Texas Instruments BA II Plus Professional Financial Calculator
Digital camera Review: Almost Awesome
Summary: 4 Stars
To make this calculator perfect for my uses, I'd make the buttons a little more responsive; it's easy to push them until they click but still not produce a response. Also, I'd love a base conversion button (decimal, hex, binary, oct) for when I'm programming. Case is a little flimsy.
Amazon got it here (to Japan) right on time.
Digital camera Review: Almost Great!
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this calculator because it is only one of two calculators allowed for use on the CFA exam. I have been very pleased with the calculator so far. In my MBA Real Estate Investments class it performed like a champ. I was able to perform NPV, IRR, and Amortization calculations faster and simpler than my classmates who were using the recommended HP 10B. Amortization is especially easier because the 10B limits the number of periods to 90, but the BAII allows longer, more realistic amortization periods like 360 for a 30 year mortgage. This calculator also processes much faster than the HP calculators.
This calculator has two big disadvantages compared to the HP 17BII+:
1) The BAII can only handle numbers to the single billion digit (10 digits).
2) The TVM function requires more key strokes than 17BII+.
Other than those two things, I really like this calculator.
Digital camera Review: Amazing
Summary: 5 Stars
This calcultor does everything that you will need in finance. it takes some time to learn but once you learn it it works like a charm.Digital camera Review: Awesome Tool
Summary: 5 Stars
awesome tool for all the financial calculation which are usually so cumbersome that makes you not to do it at all.
Digital camera Review: Awesome calculator...more fun than you can imagine (seriously)
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fabulous financial calculator. Until now, I have been a fan and owner of HP's financial calculators, but the TI BA II Plus Professional has converted me. Now, I am thinking about buying a spare TI BA 2+ Pro to keep as a backup....probably won't come to that, but you get the picture of how much I like it.
Why do I like it? First, it has a nice weight and size -- it feels good in the hand. It has rubber feet on its backside that are very effective at preventing it from sliding around on the desk...nice touch. Quality of construction seems good enough for a calculator.
Second, it has a variety of very intuitive functions -- built in worksheets for common scenarios (bond pricing, breakeven analysis, price/margin determination, interest rate conversion, depreciation, and a very handy date calculator (e.g., how many days have elapsed since 7/15/69 to 2/1/09?....14,446). In addition to "routine" TVM calculations, it seems to be the only financial calculator on the market at present that also determines MIRR, which isn't such a big deal, but it is a handy function for capital budgeting.
It is easy to learn, straightforward to use, and feels good...the only thing it does not do is make the decisions for you (but it gives you results that help you make the decisions). Worth every penny of the price I paid for my TI BA 2+ Pro...