Casio fx-7400G Benutzerhandbuch

To explore various compound interest situations involving a Principal, an Amount, an

interest rate, a number of years of investment and a number of compounding periods

per year. If all except one of these variables is known, the other one is calculated.

Enter the variable values when requested, pressing 

 after each.

Enter a negative value, such as -1,  for the one value you wish to calculate.

RATE P.A. refers to the annual interest rate. Enter it either as a decimal or as a

percentage. (E.g., 5.4% per annum can be entered either as 5.4 or as 0.054.)

The variable # PERIODS refers to the total number of compounding periods. For

example, if the principal is invested for 25 years with interest compounded monthly,

then enter 300, as there are 12 

x

 25 = 300 compounding periods. (If you wish, you can

enter 12 

x

 25, and let the calculator do the multiplication.)

The variable TIMES/YEAR refers to the number of compounding periods per year. For

example, if interest is added monthly, the value is 12, while for quarterly interest, the

value is 4.

Test the program by checking that $2800 will accumulate to $3871.89 if it is deposited

into an account in which interest of 6.5% is compounded monthly for five years.