Best Financial Calculators

HP 17BII
The HP 17BII financial calculator allows you to access over 250 business and statistical calculations anywhere you go. This calculator will help you tally up loan payments, interest rates, conversions, rates of return, net values, bond prices and yield, percentages, and many other need to know information.

The calculator has five major menus: Financial, Statistics, Business Percentages, Time Manager, and Equation Solver. You can switch between functions using the menu keys. The entered text will appear at the time of the screen and will allow you to type both numbers and letters, making algebraic equations easier than ever. If you don't know the variable that you'll need, the calculator comes with built in variables and subfunctions in each menu to allow you to compute more complex mathematics. If you press the wrong key or an error occurs, a beeper will go off letting you know. It also keeps you aware if you happen to be late for an appointment!

The HP 17BII has roughly 8 KB of RAM, which is more than enough for a calculator. If you want to know how much memory you have left, you can press shift-MEM to find both a number of actual bytes and a percentage of your overall memory space. The calculator will save anything you type until you press the "clear data" button. Now you won't have to worry about accidentally turning the calculator off because you won't lose any of your information! Even better, as the calculator saves your info, the HP 17BII automatically shuts itself off after ten minutes in order to save power. If that's not ergonomic, I don't know what is.

HP 10BII
The HP 10BII is similar to the HP 17BII, with several minor variations. This is the number crunching calculator. You can use the HP 10BII anywhere from business transactions to classroom exams to balancing your checkbook. This calculator comes with over 100 business functions that not only save you time, but frustrations as well. Calculate margins, percents, percent change, standard deviation, loan payments, interest rates, price percentage mark-up, and anything else you can think of in an easy, comfortable fashion. The calculator uses two CR2032 batteries which come with it and has a algebraic entry system that's incredibly easy to operate. The HP 10BII may be small, but it's definitely sturdy, making it easy to toss into a backpack, back pocket, or briefcase and take it with you wherever you go. The HP 10BII also comes with a one year warranty, offered by HP.


Whichever you choose, rest assured that you're buying the best of the best when it comes to your financial needs. These top of the line calculators will set you free and leave your adversaries in the dust, wondering just how the hell you calculated such extensive mathematics, seemlingly in your head!