Section 3: Basic Financial Functions

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KeystrokesDisplay

fCLEARG

29gA 348.00

14.25gC 1.19

43400$ 43,400.0043,400.00P –523.99

Calculates and stores n.

Calculates and stores i.

Stores PV.

Sets payment mode to End.

Monthly payment (with minus sign for cash paid out).

Example 2: Looking forward to retirement, you wish to accumulate $60,000 after 15 years by making deposits in an account that pays 93/4% interest compounded semiannually. You open the account with a deposit of $3,200 and intend to make semiannual deposits, beginning six months later, from your profit-sharing bonus paychecks. Calculate how much these deposits should be.

Keystrokes

fCLEARG 15\2µw

9.75\2

3200Þ$

60000M

P

Display

30.00Calculates and stores n.

4.88Calculates and stores i.

–3200.00

Stores PV (with minus sign for cash

 

paid out).

60,000.00

Stores FV.

60,000.00

Sets payment mode to End.

–717.44

Semiannual payment (with minus sign

 

for cash paid out).

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