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WHO NEEDS THIS BOOK?

More than 25 years ago I used an early Hewlett Packard 38C to calculate interest rates and analyse cash flows and then progressed to the ‘state of the art’ programmable HP 41C with a printer, magnetic strip reader and plug-in finance and mathematics packs. This was an early alphanumeric calculator, which gave me the opportunity to program lease versus purchase or lessor lease evaluation cash flows and structure more complex lease transactions. This was before IBM launched the personal computer in the early 1980s.

Since that time I have used and programmed other calculators, such as the HP 12C, HP 17BII, HP 19B and TI BAII Plus, which all provide dedicated user screens and allow you to undertake financial mathematics. ...

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