HP 12c financial calculator Manual De Usuario

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Section 3: Basic Financial Functions 
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File name: hp 12c_user's guide_English_HDPMBF12E44 
Page: 37 of 209   
Printered Date: 2005/7/29   
Dimension: 14.8 cm x 21 cm 
 
The Payment Mode 
One more bit of information must be specified before you can solve a problem 
involving periodic payments. Such payments can be made either at the beginning 
of a compounding period (payments in advance, or annuities due) or at the end of 
the period (payments in arrears, or ordinary annuities). Calculations involving 
payments in advance yield different results than calculations involving payments in 
arrears. Illustrated below are portions of cash flow diagrams showing payments in 
advance (Begin) and payments in arrears (End). In the problem illustrated in the 
cash flow diagram above, payments are made in arrears. 
 
Regardless of whether payments are made in advance or in arrears, the number of 
payments must be the same as the number of compounding periods. 
To specify the payment mode: 
z
 
 Press  g× if payments are made at the beginning of the compounding 
periods.  
z
 
 Press g if payments are made at the end of the compounding periods. 
The BEGIN status indicator is lit when the payment mode is set to Begin. If BEGIN 
is not lit, the payment mode is set to End.   
The payment mode remains set to what you last specified until you change it; it is 
not reset each time the calculator is turned on. However, if Continuous Memory is 
reset, the payment mode will be set to End. 
Generalized Cash Flow Diagrams 
Examples of various kinds of financial calculations, together with the applicable 
cash flow diagrams, appear under Compound Interest Calculations later in this 
section. If your particular problem does not match any of those shown, you can 
solve it nevertheless by first drawing a cash flow diagram, then keying the 
quantities identified in the diagram into the corresponding registers. Remember 
always to observe the sign convention when keying in PV
PMT, and FV
The terminology used for describing financial problems varies among the different 
segments of the business and financial communities. Nevertheless, most problems 
involving compound interest can be solved by drawing a cash flow diagram in 
one of the following basic forms. Listed below each form are some of the problems 
to which that diagram applies.