BA II Plus technique
BA II Plus technique for Exam FM: the settings to fix first, the TVM keys, and the cash flow, amortisation and bond worksheets, step by step.
BA II Plus setup: the four settings to fix before you practise
Decimal places, payments per year, compounding periods and the AOS setting - get these wrong and every TVM answer is quietly wrong too.
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BA II Plus: the TVM keys as one equation of value
N, I/Y, PV, PMT and FV are five slots in a single present-value equation. Fill four, solve for the fifth.
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BA II Plus: the cash flow, NPV and IRR worksheets
Uneven cash flows go in the CF register; NPV and IRR then read it. The frequency field is what most candidates miss.
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BA II Plus: the amortisation worksheet
Outstanding balance, interest paid and principal repaid over any range of payments, without building a schedule by hand.
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BA II Plus: bond worksheet versus plain TVM
The BOND worksheet handles day-count conventions; for a clean coupon-date bond, plain TVM is faster.
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BA II Plus: shaving a minute off every question
Memory registers, the exponent key, and the habits that stop you re-entering the same number four times.
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