HP 17BII+ Financial Calculator, Silver

Write down all your favorite formulas for the solver function. Change the batteries at least once per year so you don't lose the settings. Requires light to read this - display is not LED or backlit. This is likely more accurate than your bank! Loans, financial returns, TVM, and uneven payment stream are all in here. The manual with worked out example problems is very useful. The general solver is very fast. It is far easier to use than the downloadable financial calculators for iPads and other tablets due to the keyboard and size. After working on the original n - I - pmt - PR - FV layout and testing these with many financial professionals. I will recommend you make a time diagram of the problem you want to work. I've used every model since the HP80 and 12C. This is an excellent one.

Always reliable and I've been using this calculator model, since my MBA time. That was 30+ years ago.

Use almost daily. Bought a 2nd one for travel. I'm a financial advisor and this is a key part of my working tools. Very reliable. Programming features are handy too. Tried some others, but kept coming back to this one.

I have had 4 financial calculators since I started my master’s degree in finance, and would like to share what I have learned. First let me say that my bachelor’s degree is in science and when I went to school I had to have a HP 48G series, which I just loved it. That’s the standard.Studying to be a financial planner, my college taught using the HP 10bII Financial Calculator, as this calculator is allowed for use when taking exams for financial certifications. The calculator keys stuck and I had to ensure I pressed the keys hard enough, but it was a good financial calculator and easy to use when doing cash flows, interest and other calculations. I next bought the Texas Instruments BA II Plus Professional Financial Calculator and after 30 minutes of using it I gave it to my kids. (It lacked ease-of-use, but it was good for simple addition and subtraction.) I then purchased the Casio FC-200V Financial Calculator with 4-Line Display and found it was well-made, pretty, but frustrating to do financial calculations. My goal is to press as few keys as possible and exit quickly, and the Casio FC-200V did not provide this experience. You actually have to turn off the calculator to exit out of some of the functions. (Another calculator for the kids.) My last calculator, and the one I’m going to keep, is the HP 17BII+ Financial Calculator, Silver. It’s well-made, easy-to-use, and a well-thought-out design that makes getting results a breeze. The only problem with the HP 17BII is that it’s too powerful and may not be allowed in the exam room, but it sure makes solving problems easy, and I can concentrate on the math problem rather than how to use the calculator.If you’re a financial major, the HP 17BII is the calculator of choice.

The HP 17Bs have been my favourite calculator for longer than I can remember.A closer check shows I purchased my first on March 10th. 1988.Thanks for a fantastic product.

Until a replacement for the HP19BII comes along, this is the best business calculator that can be purchased.With over a year of near daily use, I remain very pleased with this calculator. I purchased the HP17BII+ despite the unusual number of negative reviews for this model prompted by my many years of experience with the HP19BII.This is a solid, dependable calculator with intuitive features, unmatched ease of programming in a financial calculator and quality materials.I've tested both Casio models and the TI business calculators; neither is able to measure up to the standards of the new HP17BII+ in terms of "feel" and ease of use. Anyone who recommends the TIBAII series - even the "Pro" - either has never used the HP17BII+ or believes that you will not be using your business calculator for real business.The programmability - the ability to enter formulae into the calculator permanently and to solve for any variable is a boon to anyone. Want to run an ROI or break-even formula - just program it into the calculator and it'll be there for you whenever you need it. Need t do simple Chi-square, z-score or MIRR, just plug it in and you've got it at your fingertips. It is puzzling to me why HP does not trumpet the features of their calculators. TI cleans their clock in terms of store presence nearly everywhere - sluffing off calculators with fewer capabilities on generations of calculator buyers. As of this writing, there is no match for the HP17BII+ on the marketplace except PDAs with emulator packages.The HP 17BII+ does essentially everything that the HP19BII did, but faster and in a smaller footprint. The HP 17BII's long life batteries are far more likely to be found in a store's battery section than those needed for the HP19BII and the extended memory will allow far more custom equations. It is regrettable that HP dropped the random number generator, but again, overall the best financial/business calculator one can buy today. Also - I've had no sticky keys, blank displays or erratic behavior of any kind.Negatives: The alpha selection display is kind of cumbersome, but once you're done with the program entry, the lack of a separate alpha keyboard makes the calculator much less clunky.The single line display (HP calls it two line because the bottom of the display contains the menu enunciators) makes it very difficult at first to enter longer programs - only one line at a time can be seen - making trouble shooting tedious.The "On" key is the same height as the rest of the keys meaning it can be turned on simply by pushing on the case while the calculator is inside - while auto power off will shut off the calculator in ten minutes, one can only hope that you don't experience too many inadvertent power-ons so that your calculator runs out of power at just the wrong time.Once again - a solid, pleasure of a calculator, and one I'd recommend to anyone in any circumstances who needs a quality programmable financial calculator (my belief is that once you've tried HP Solve on an HP calculator that you'll quickly say that you can't do without it!).

Excellent calculator. Delivery was on time. I like this calculator.

It’s getting harder to find calculators that use rpn for work flow. HP discontinued their scientific models so this is the next best version. This will probably do everything you need it to do. Feels lighter than older models but doesn’t feel cheap. Can’t believe the HP 35s I paid $40 for several years ago is selling used for over $500.

Llego es excelentes condiciones, tiene instructivos y pilas ,me encanto

Fast delivery and a good price! Used but in great shape - like new.

Es la 4ª máquina que adquiero de este tipo. La primera que compré hace años fue la de formato de libro de la que procede la actual, habiendo heredado todas las funciones menos la representación gráfica. Fácil de programar y versátil para el cálculo de cualquier variable que aparezca en la fórmula. El manual (hoy en formato digital) muy claro y con ejemplos muy elegidos para su mejor uso y rendimiento.

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easy to use , you can program formulas in it . efficient machine