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Calculator approved for Acca

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  • This topic has 21 replies, 6 voices, and was last updated 7 years ago by John Moffat.
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  • August 6, 2016 at 6:05 pm #331735
    sabasajid22
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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

    August 7, 2016 at 8:40 am #331781
    John Moffat
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    The ACCA do not publish a list of approved calculators.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).

    August 8, 2016 at 3:00 pm #332050
    sabasajid22
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    Thank you Sir.

    August 8, 2016 at 4:57 pm #332070
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    August 13, 2016 at 2:16 pm #332956
    mika84
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    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?

    August 13, 2016 at 5:21 pm #332978
    John Moffat
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    Numbers are not text 🙂

    (By text it means words!)

    August 13, 2016 at 7:52 pm #333002
    mika84
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    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.

    August 14, 2016 at 7:37 am #333055
    John Moffat
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    That is not a problem – it is OK.

    August 14, 2016 at 4:18 pm #333141
    mika84
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    Thank you very much for your answer.

    August 15, 2016 at 6:47 am #333203
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    August 20, 2016 at 7:58 pm #334274
    Stephanie
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    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.

    August 21, 2016 at 5:46 am #334303
    John Moffat
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    You are calculating log of (0.80/2).

    You should be calculating log of 0.8 and then dividing by log of 2.

    August 30, 2016 at 11:34 am #336215
    mika84
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    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.

    August 30, 2016 at 3:04 pm #336281
    John Moffat
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    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.

    August 30, 2016 at 3:34 pm #336296
    mika84
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    Thank you for your quick reply. I’ll get a new one then.

    August 30, 2016 at 3:47 pm #336303
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    November 8, 2016 at 11:30 am #348033
    Tariro
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    Good day
    Is a financial calculator allowed in the exam for F9 and F5. I have a Sharp EL 738.

    November 8, 2016 at 1:24 pm #348051
    John Moffat
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    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.

    November 9, 2016 at 6:49 am #348147
    Tariro
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    Ok. Thank you

    November 9, 2016 at 9:03 am #348183
    John Moffat
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    You are welcome 🙂

    August 27, 2017 at 5:02 pm #403795
    birlaaoo7
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    can i use financial calc. TIBA 2+ ?

    August 28, 2017 at 7:37 am #403857
    John Moffat
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    I have no idea what TIBA 2+ is !!

    I have written earlier what the ACCA rule is – the calculator must display only numbers and not letters.

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