6Contents

Percent of Total in ALG Mode .................................................

36

Calendar Functions ......................................................................

37

Date Format .........................................................................

37

Future or Past Dates...............................................................

38

Number of Days Between Dates .............................................

40

Section 3:Basic Financial Functions ....................................

41

The Financial Registers .................................................................

41

Storing Numbers into the Financial Registers ............................

41

Displaying Numbers in the Financial Registers ..........................

41

Clearing the Financial Registers ..............................................

42

Simple Interest Calculations...........................................................

42

Financial Calculations and the Cash Flow Diagram..........................

44

The Cash Flow Sign Convention..............................................

46

The Payment Mode ...............................................................

46

Generalized Cash Flow Diagrams...........................................

47

Compound Interest Calculations.....................................................

49

Specifying the Number of Compounding Periods and the Periodic

Interest Rate .........................................................................

49

Calculating the Number of Payments or Compounding Periods ...

49

Calculating the Periodic and Annual Interest Rates.....................

55

Calculating the Present Value .................................................

56

Calculating the Payment Amount.............................................

58

Calculating the Future Value ...................................................

60

Odd-Period Calculations ........................................................

63

Amortization ...............................................................................

69

Section 4:Additional Financial Functions.............................

72

Discounted Cash Flow Analysis: NPV and IRR .................................

72

Calculating Net Present Value (NPV) .......................................

73

Calculating Internal Rate of Return (IRR) ...................................

78

Reviewing Cash Flow Entries...................................................

79

Changing Cash Flow Entries...................................................

80

Bond Calculations .......................................................................

82

Bond Price ...........................................................................

82

Bond Yield ...........................................................................

83

Depreciation Calculations .............................................................

84

Section 5:Additional Operating Features ............................

86

Continuous Memory.....................................................................

86

The Display.................................................................................

87

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