12Making Financial Calculations Easy

Note: A battery symbol (¼) shown in the lower-left corner of the display when the calculator is on signifies that the available battery power is nearly exhausted. To install new batteries, refer to Appendix E.

The calendar functions and nearly all of the financial functions take some time to produce an answer. (This is typically just a few seconds, but the ¼, !, L, and S functions could require a half-minute or more.) During these calculations, the word running flashes in the display to let you know that the calculator is running.

Keystrokes fCLEARHf24gA6gC500P

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Display

0.00Clears previous data inside the calculator and sets display to show two decimal places.

48.00Calculates and stores the number of compounding periods.0.50Calculates and stores the periodic interest rate.500.00Stores periodic payment amount.500.00Sets payment mode to Begin.-21,396.61Amount required to be deposited.*

Example 2: We now need to determine how to accumulate the required deposit by the time your daughter enters college 14 years from now. Let’s say that she has a paid-up $5,000 insurance policy that pays 5.35% annually, compounded semiannually. How much would it be worth by the time she enters college?

In this example, we need to calculate FV, the future value.
Keystrokes

Display

fCLEARG-21,396.61Clears previous financial data inside

 

the calculator.
14\2µn5.35\2
28.00Calculates and stores the number of compounding periods.2.68Calculates and stores the periodic interest rate.
5000Þ$-5,000.00Stores the present value of the

 

 

policy.

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10,470.85Value of policy in 14 years.

*Don’t be concerned now about the minus sign in the display. That and other details will be explained in Section 3.

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