Monday, December 13, 2021

Review and Instruction: Senario FC-500 Financial Calculator

Review and Instruction: Senario FC-500 Financial Calculator


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Now on to the review.


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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