Review and Instruction: Senario FC-500 Financial Calculator
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Review: Senario FC-500 Financial Calculator
Quick Facts
Model: FC-500
Company: Senario
Years: ??, sometime in the 2010s?
Memory Register: 1 user memory with separate registers
Battery: Battery, 2 x LR44
Screen: 12 digits
Logic: Chain
I purchased the Senario FC-500 on eBay for relatively cheap. The one I purchased did not come with an instruction manual, and I couldn't find one online.
Through playing with the calculator and research with other financial calculators, the FC-500 models itself after the Hewlett Packard HP 12C.
What makes this financial calculator a little unique is the wonderful presence of 40 U.S.-metric conversions. The FC-500 is a feature rich financial calculator.
I have yet to find instruction on how to change the number of decimal points displayed, if that is even available. Most financial calculators default to the 2 decimal point setting, and that would be the expected setting. This would be one of my sticky points for the FC-500, the other would be lack of user memory registers.
The cash flow convention is followed: positive for cash inflows (deposits and receipts), negative for cash outflows (payments). The key with a magnifying glass over a document, which is located on the second row, sixth key (right-most key) is the compute/calculate key. On this blog I will designate this key as the [(search)] button.
Features
* Time Value of Money
* Depreciation (Straight Line, Sum of the Years Digit, Declining Balance)
* Sell/Cost/Margin (SEL, CST, MGN)
* Interest Conversion: Effective vs Nominal (APR)
* Percent Calculations (%, percent change, % of total)
* Currency conversions
* Tax calculation (TAX+ and TAX-)
* Days between dates and date calculations (four digit years)
* Statistics including Linear Regression
The rest will be an instruction sheet for those who are looking for a manual. For anything I missed, you may want to look at the HP 10BII+ or HP 12C manual and it may fill the rest of the gaps. Hope this helps.
Operating the FC-500
Time Value of Money (TVM)
PV: present value
n: number of payments, ×12
i: periodic interest rate, ÷12
PMT: payment
FV: future value
Magnifying glass, designated as [(search)]: Solve/CPT
B/E: Beginning/End Toggle
Cash flow convention is followed
Example:
PV: 0.00
n: 3 years
i: 3.86% compounded monthly
payment: $50.00 per month
0 [ PV ]
3 [SHIFT] (×12)
3.86 [SHIFT] (÷12)
50 [+/-] [ PMT ]
[(glass)] [ FV ] returns 1,905.11893693
Amortization Procedure
1. Enter n, i, PV, and any balloon amount in FV.
2. Compute PMT.
3. Enter period 1 to n, second period, press [SHIFT] (AMORT)
4. Accumulated Interest, [ X←→Y ], Accumulated Principal
5. [ RCL ] [ PV ]: remaining balance
6. [ RCL ] [ n ]: number of payments amortized
7. To do the next batch, press [ SHIFT ] (AMORT), repeat steps 4 through 6
Example:
Loan: $189,000.00
I/YR: 4.8% compounded monthly
Years: 20 years of monthly payments
No balloon payment
Amortize the first 2 years of 12 month payments
189000 [ PV ]
20 [SHIFT] [ ×12 ]
4.8 [SHIFT] [ ÷12 ]
0 [ FV ]
[(search)] [ PMT ] returns -1,226.529641804
First 12 Payments
0 [ n ] 12 [SHIFT] (AMORT)
Accumulated Interest: -8,946.10891465
Accumulated Principal: [ X←→Y ], -5,772.24650183
Balance: [ RCL ] [ PV ], 183,227.753498
Second 12 Payments
12 [SHIFT] (AMORT)
Accumulated Interest: -8,662.86358088
Accumulated Principal: [ X←→Y ], -6,055.4918356
Balance: [ RCL ] [ PV ], 177,172.261662
EFF/NOM conversion
Convert from NOM (APR) to EFF
payments per year [ n ]
nominal rate [ NOM ]
[(search)] [ EFF ]
Example: NOM = 6%, payments per year = 24
24 [ n ] 6 [ NOM ] [(search)] [ EFF ] returns 6.17570442629
Convert from EFF to NOM (APR)
payments per year [ n ]
nominal rate [ EFF ]
[(search)] [ NOM ]
Example: NOM = 6%, payments per year = 24
24 [ n ] 6 [ EFF ] [(search)] [ NOM ] returns 5.83397001049
Percent Change
old [ X←→Y ] new [ Δ% ]
Example: 4750 [ X←→Y ] 4200 [ Δ% ] returns -11.5789473684
Days Between Dates
first date [ X←→Y ] second date [SHIFT] (ΔDAYS)
Example: 3.141977 [ X←→Y ] 12.092021 [SHIFT] (ΔDAYS) returns 16,341
(M.DY year mode)
(March 14, 1977 to December 9, 2021)
Percent Total
whole [ X←→Y ] part [ %T ]
Example: 85 [ X←→Y ] 41 [ %T ] returns 48.2352941176
Date Addition
date [ X←→Y ] number of days [SHIFT] (DATE)
Day number: 1: Monday to 7: Sunday
Example: Determine the date 90 days from November 15, 2021? (M.DY year mode)
11.152021 [ X←→Y ] 90 [SHIFT] (DATE) returns 2.132022-7
(Sunday February 13, 2022)
Tax Addition and Subtraction (Sales Tax)
To set the tax rate: rate [SHIFT] (RATE SET)
To add the tax rate: [TAX+]: x∙(1+rate/100)
To subtract the tax rate: [TAX-]: x/(1+rate/100)
Example: Set rate at 9.5%
200 [TAX+] returns 219
150 [TAX-] returns 136.986301369
Unit Conversions
40 conversions
Use the blue keys:
[ ← ]: metric to US
[ → ]: US to metric
Statistics - Linear Regression
Date: x [ X←→Y ] y [ Σ+ ]
Registers used: (not used for other purposes)
[ RCL ] [ 1 ]: N
[ RCL ] [ 2 ]: Σx
[ RCL ] [ 3 ]: Σx^2
[ RCL ] [ 4 ]: Σy
[ RCL ] [ 5 ]: Σy^2
[ RCL ] [ 6 ]: Σxy
Depreciation
[ n ]: life of the asset in years
[ PV ]: cost
[ FV ]: salvage value, if any
[ i ]: rate (for declining balance only)
year # [ SHIFT ] ( SL ): Straight Line Depreciation (press [ X ←→ Y] for book value)
year # [ SHIFT ] ( SOYD ): Sum of the Year's Digits Depreciation (press [ X ←→ Y] for book value)
year # [ SHIFT ] ( SL ): Declining Balance Depreciation (press [ X ←→ Y] for book value)
Simple Interest
n: number of days
i: annual interest rate
PV: principal amount
Enter 0 in PMT and FV
Press [SHIFT] (INT) for simple interest
Example:
Calculate the simple interest of a 30-day loan of $1,400.00. The annual rate is 6.5%.
1400 [ PV ]
30 [ n ]
6.5 [ i ]
0 [ PMT ], 0 [ FV ]
[SHIFT] (INT) returns -7.583333333333 (360-day year)
[ X ←→ Y] -7.7945205479 (365-day year)
Eddie
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