Thanks to a new
App Store offering from Texas
Instruments, you can now enjoy the functionalities of the company's best-selling
financial calculator on your
iPhone
and
iPod touch. The
new BAII Plus App provides professionals and students with all of the original
calculator's features, including the ability to solve accrued interest,
amortization, cost-sell-margin, depreciation and time-value-of-money
calculations.
The app takes advantage of the iPhone and iPod touch's Multi-Touch
user interface and also includes features such as the 2nd function key like the
original calculator.
Other advanced finance and science functions include:
- Solves Time-Value-of-Money calculations
- Generates amortization schedules
- Performs cash-flow analysis, and computes NPV and IRR
- Calculates depreciation with four different methodologies
- Breakeven, profit and percent difference calculations
- Date function to determine days between dates
- Evaluates bond prices and yields "to maturity" or
"to call"
- Scientific capabilities include trig. and log. functions
- Memory stores 10 values and Constant Memory retains them
- Choice of chain or Algebraic Operating System methods
- Key click sounds enabled optionally via Settings
"Customers told us they want fewer electronic devices
to carry around, but they still want a powerful calculator handy in their
day-to-day lives," said Melendy Lovett, president of Texas Instruments
Education Technology business. "The new BAII Plus calculator app for
iPhone and iPod touch meets that need while continuing to offer all of the
features that make the BAII Plus one of the most popular financial calculators
available today."
The BAII Plus App is available for $14.99 from the App Store
on iPhone and iPod touch or at
www.itunes.com/appstore/.
Jennifer Johnson
Jennifer grew up around technology. From an early age, she was curious about all things related to computers. As a child, Jennifer remembers spending nights with her dad programming in BASIC and taking apart hard drives to see what was inside. In high school, she wrote her senior term paper on her experiences with building custom computers.
Jennifer graduated from the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. After college, she began writing full-time for various PC and technology magazines. Later, she transitioned to the Web. In these roles, Jennifer has covered a variety of topics including laptops, desktops, smartphones, cameras, tablets, and various consumer electronics devices. When she's not playing with or writing about the latest gadget, Jennifer loves to spend time with her family, capture memories with her camera, and scrapbook.
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