Advanced Financial Calculator for the Palm OS
It's designed to fill the needs of any student in finance or
accounting. It's the calculator that I use in
my own
classes. Like my basic financial calculator,
it can calculate
- the number of payments in a loan or ordinary annuity,
- interest rates of loans and rates of return on investments,
- payment amounts for loans and annuities,
- present and future values of cash payments and annuities.
But this calculator also has a payment mode key to handle both ordinary
annuities and annuities due.
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And it has advanced functions like discounted cash flow analysis (net present
value and internal rate of return) that will handle up to 31 cash flows
(one initial and 30 subsequent cash flows).
It has additional editing functions (CHange Sign and BackSpace) and I've
even included basic statistical functions (sum of sample, sample mean, and
standard deviation of sample or population). And the buttons are big, so
it's tolerant of any minor misalignment of the tap screen.
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This program has been fully tested to perform
all of the most common financial calculations, and all results were compared
to an HP-12C to assure accuracy of the calculator.
It's an upgrade of my basic financial
calculator, and is based on the free RPN
calculator so it has proven five-function (addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division and exponents) capabilities and has a 10-value
internal stack to handle complex nested calculations.
And don't worry about that credit card balance, because the price
is only $6.95. That's the total price. There's no charge for shipping
and no charge for handling because you can download
it now.
The RPN notation is a powerful technique for
performing complex calculations, but if you haven't used a Hewlett-Packard
calculator (or only owned a model introduced after the mid 80s), my
tutorial will teach you how to use
an RPN calculator. The tutorial for the
financial calculator begins here.
This calculator requires Palm OS v3.0 or better. That means that it will
work with just about any Palm-powered PDA made after March of 1998 (that's a
Palm III, or any Palm device that came after the Palm III).
Click here to
buy and download
your copy. The installation file is a zip file for Windows
(sorry, I don't have a stuffit file for the Mac folks, yet). You'll need
WinZip or a similar program to install the calculator on your handheld. You
can get WinZip here.
Relevant Tutorial Material
The advanced financial calculator, like my basic
financial calculator uses the RPN system for entering arithmetic
expressions. You can find my RPN calculator tutorial
here.
Click here to read my basic financial calculator tutorial.
The advanced functions tutorial begins
here.
Need help?
If you have any problem downloading the software or navigating this site,
you can
contact me here. Of course, I'd love to hear your
comments or suggestions about my products.
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