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Hi Sir.I want to ask you that which calculators are approved for Acca exams. I want to buy calculator for Acca exams f5 to onwards. Please recommend me best calculator for Acca exams. Thanks
The ACCA do not publish a list of approved calculators.
You can use any calculator provided that it can not store or display text.
There is no ‘best’ calculator, but you do need a scientific calculator (you need to be able to calculate nth powers and nth roots, and to be safe it should have a ‘log’ button).
may I ask, what does “it can not store or display text” mean? for example, I use Casio FC-100V, it displays text like Answer, Log, e in 10-th power. As far as understand, it’s ok as it’s programmed text, is it?
it shows on my display:Log. when I press Log button, it shows the word Answer when I press Ans. button. this what I mean. It’s ok? sorry if I can’t understand, but I need to be sure the examiner will allow my calculator.
Hi Sir,
Can I ask a question on the scientific calculator please? I am trying to figure how to calculate the learning rate on ‘Test Your Understanding 3’ in Chapter 9 of the Kaplan Dec’16 – Jun’16 complete text book.
The question says ‘b= logr / log2 where r= learning rate expressed as a decimal’.The learning rate given in the question is 80%.When I put this into my calculator (log button , 0.80/2) I get -0.39794 however in the solution to this question the rate is -0.3219, have you any idea where I am going wrong?
Thanks for your help.
Steph.
You are calculating log of (0.80/2).
You should be calculating log of 0.8 and then dividing by log of 2.
Sir, I m sorry for insisting, I have had a chat with acca now and they said my calculator is not allowed. Do you advise me to get a new one or is there other way than chat room to confirm? Let me remind, my calculator displays command words. For example I press COMP. button and it displays word COMPOUND on screen. I can then add other operations with this COMP. and it displays all on screen. Then I just confirm what I choose by pressing ANSWER button.If I want use the final result, I press ANSWER button and continue working with it. The word ANSWER now is displayed.
If the ACCA say it is not allowed then obviously it isn’t and you must get a new one.
(Just displaying words is not a problem – what they don’t allow is a calculator that stores formulae which seems to apparently be what yours is doing).A standard scientific calculator is fine.
Good day
Is a financial calculator allowed in the exam for F9 and F5. I have a Sharp EL 738.You can use any calculator provided that it can not store or display text – yours does display text and is therefore not allowed.
You are best buying a scientific calculator.
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