Texas Instruments BA II Plus Financial Calculator
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Customer Review: Great calculator but you'll need to spend some time reading the manual
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this calculator for my finance classes and have used it for about a month now. So far, I don't have any problems with it and doubt that any will arise in the future. I have had a calculator by TI before, that I've used for the past seven years and it still works absolutely perfectly so I have great confidence in this one as well. The calculator itself is build and designed very well. The buttons are easy to press and are very responsive, the screen is nice and clear, and the processor is able to calculate difficult functions quite fast.
The only difficulty that I had with this product is its complexity. Though, of course, this calculator does basic functions such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc. once you begin to use it for its designed functions, you may run into some problems figuring out how the calculator functions. The calculator, however, comes with a very useful manual which you can spend a couple minutes reading and you will know anything there is to know about how to use different financial functions of this calculator.
Customer Review: What a piece of junk
Summary: 1 Stars
I am currently studying for the CFA exam and I am a proud owner of HP 19B. This is by far my favorite calculator. Unfortunately, I cannot use ths for the CFA exam. My choices for the CFA exam were the HP 12C and the TI BAII. Unfamiliar with TI calcualtors, I decided to give the TI BAII a try because I heard that it had some neat features like calculating permuations and combinations that may be useful on the CFA exam. Boy did I make a mistake. This calcualtor is the most unintuitive electronic gadget that I have ever bought. The instruction manual was even more useless. When I used it to calcualte TVM problems sometimes I would get the right answer. Other times when I entered the exact same inputs I would get a completely different answer. I had problems getting most of the other functions to work correctly as well. It became so frustrating that I literally broke the calculator into two pieces and disgarded it. The lesson I learned from all this is that I need to stick with what works. Time to go back to HP.Customer Review: Great financial calculator
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great financial calculator. The only beef I have with Texas Instruments is they reduced the dissertation size user manual they used to have to a semi useless quick guide that does a great job for basic functions but does not have the full functionality of the entire calculator in it. This calculator deserves a guide that lets both beginners and advanced users utilize it. I got my calculator on sale which made it even a better value. I had the older version of this calculator and some keys may have been removed because it looks a little smaller but all the really necessary functions are still there! There is no better financial calculator available in its price range.
Pros: Powerful financial functions
Great built-in case
good quick user guide
Cons: Poor explanations of advanced functions
confusing up and down arrow functions
I still love this calculator and feel you can't do any better if you need functionality for financial problems.
Customer Review: The other approved calculator for the CFA exam
Summary: 3 Stars
The Texas Instrument BAII Plus is one of the 2 financial calculators permitted by the Association for Investment Management & Research to be used in the Chartered Financial Analyst exams. The other calculator being the Hewlett Packard 12C. The BAII Plus is also recommended by CFA study notes publishers such as Schweser.Compared to the HP12C, the BAII Plus is definitely easier to use, especially when it comes to simple addition functions. The addition keystrokes are as per the normal keystrokes we've all been accustomed to. Because the HP12C uses the Reverse Polish Notation (RPN), its addition keystrokes are counter-intuitive and difficult to get used to.
The downside to the BAII Plus is that it feels extremely lightweight and the keys are not as nice to punch/press. Lookswise, it also loses out to the HP12C which has a certain nostalgic classic look to it.
As for myself, I will be using BOTH the BAII Plus and HP12c for my CFA exams. It helps to have a spare financial calculator during the exams.
Customer Review: Not too user friendly, but does the job
Summary: 3 Stars
First off, let me say that as far as doing what it is supposed to do (calculating financial problems), this works like a charm.
That said, I would like to point out its shortcomings. I've owned a Casio and HP, and both had excellent menu-driven functionality. Even those that dont have menu systems were were user-friendly and anyone could pick one up and start using using without the need for a manual. The TI, unfortunately, is very bad in this. The placement of keys further adds to this problem - I would have expected data-entry (for stats) to be easy, but the enter key is so small and placed at a very counter-intuitive location that it is still hard for me to enter data as fast as I could with my Casio.
The buttons are not the best. I always have to look at the screen after every press to make sure it got entered. My Casio's buttons were the best, you could be sure that if you pressed it, it would be there.
But again, if you're used to a TI, this should be fine.