is BA II Plus a "programmable" calculator?

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The official calculator policy from my university state.
“Non-programmable calculators with no text-retrieval capacity are allowed.
Calculators that have a full alphabet on the keyboard are not allowed.”
That is the only information the university would give regarding to calculator, there is no list of approved of calculators or anything. And as you can see the statement is vague regarding to what is programmable, the only clue it gives is the input and output of texts.
I asked the professor of the faculty about the acceptability of BA II plus in exams, he simply reply that “if the calculator is programmable, then no” and repeated the university policy. So it obvious that he does not know about the BA II plus and I am here confused about whether the BA II plus is “programmable”, and it is left to my interpretation.
 
FinancialWar wrote:The official calculator policy from my university state.
“Non-programmable calculators with no text-retrieval capacity are allowed.
Calculators that have a full alphabet on the keyboard are not allowed.”
That is the only information the university would give regarding to calculator, there is no list of approved of calculators or anything. And as you can see the statement is vague regarding to what is programmable, the only clue it gives is the input and output of texts.
I asked the professor of the faculty about the acceptability of BA II plus in exams, he simply reply that “if the calculator is programmable, then no” and repeated the university policy. So it obvious that he does not know about the BA II plus and I am here confused about whether the BA II plus is “programmable”, and it is left to my interpretation.
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It is non-programmable. but I cannot find any official proof.
 
The 12C is programmable and is allowed. They make you clear the memory though. I highly doubt the proctors know if you are actually clearing the memory correctly though.
 
PalacioHill wrote:The 12C is programmable and is allowed. They make you clear the memory though. I highly doubt the proctors know if you are actually clearing the memory correctly though.
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What exam are you talking about? I am talking about an university policy not CFA.
 
Excuse me, I just assumed you were talking about the CFA SINCE THIS IS A GD CFA FORUM.
 
PalacioHill wrote:Excuse me, I just assumed you were talking about the CFA SINCE THIS IS A GD CFA FORUM.
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You just assumed and didn’t both even read the first post to understand what the thread is about. Guess you won’t be hired for your due diligence.
PS. To reply to your statement, I know this is a CFA forum, but it is the only forum I know where there is a lot of people know about the BA II plus, no one at my class/uni even use a financial calculator. So logically I posted here since it is a question about BA II plus.
 
Dude, get off your high horse. I have already worked in finance for over 10 years, have an MSF and the CFA charter and several securities licenses. From what I know about you, you are still in college, and don’t even know if you can pass the level I exam yet. On top of that, your university has to be super lame if they don’t even teach you guys how to use a financial calculator. I bet your professors don’t even know what excel is. By the way, the TI calc is for bit%^& that don’t know how to use RPN. It is a sh^&*@ piece of plastic next to the 12c. You are right, I didn’t read your first post b/c the topic was super lame and I just thought I’d help you out by answering your question in the title. Oh yeah, I assumed you were talking about the CFA program b/c this is A CFA FORUM. Go back to class and study your finance 101 book about how to calc the FV of some savings plan for little Suzie that wants to have $10,000 in 10 years to by her first car.
 
FinancialWar wrote: You just assumed and didn’t both even read the first post to understand what the thread is about. Guess you won’t be hired for your due diligence.
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Guess you won’t be hired for any of your skills. Do you even know what the term “programmable” means? Did you even bother looking at the calculator before you asked?
If you google “is the ti ba 2 plus programmable”, the second link says “Good news! the TI BA II Plus Calculator is NON-PROGRAMMABLE!!” And Wikipedia has an entry about the Business Analyst Series, and it is not listed under the “programmable” section.
But I disagree with Palacios. He is being pretty mean (although sometimes you do have to be mean to idiots). I don’t consider the BA II Plus to be a “lesser” calculator than the HP-12C. Does the HP-12C get better answers than the BA II Plus? Does it calculate the square root of two any faster than the BA II Plus? I don’t know how to use RPN, and I have no desire to learn. I don’t think that makes me inferior to Palacios.
Once you get past the exams, most of your work will be done on Excel.
 
True, once you finish the CFA program, there is little use for actual calculators. I am partial to the the 12c because I can get through large formulas much quicker with RPN than with normal algebraic calculators. Plus it just looks and feels more professional, but whatever. To each their own. But you are right, FiancialWar is a punk bitch.
 
Wow, a lot of angst over nothing.
As for the CFA thing, when I took the exams, the proctors cleared everyone’s calculator. They just saw the calculator, pressed whatever key combination is supposed to clear it, and sent you on you way. So someone presumably taught them how to clear the memory.
 
ok, not programmable. Silly me. I couldn’t find anything on google.
 
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