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BA II Plus Keystroke Sheet

The BA II Plus Keystroke Sheet for the CFA exam, free to download and keep. There is no signup, no email wall and no watermark — open it, print it, or keep it beside you while you work through questions.

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What is inside

6 pages.

• Initial setup: decimal places, payments per year, and calculation mode.
• Time value of money, the cash flow worksheet for NPV, IRR and money-weighted return, and the statistics worksheet for mean, standard deviation and regression.
• Bond pricing, yields, effective annual rates and memory storage routines.
• Actual keystroke sequences rather than descriptions, for example 2ND then FORMAT then 9 then ENTER to set decimal precision.
• A traps section on clearing the TVM registers between problems and on sign conventions - the errors that produce a confident wrong answer.

How to use it

• Keep it open in a second tab while you attempt free CFA questions, so you are recalling from the sheet rather than from memory at first.
• Cover it and try to reproduce the section you have just read — the recall attempt is what makes it stick, not the re-reading.
• Print it if you study away from a screen. It is laid out to stay legible on paper.

Practise CFA alongside it

A sheet on its own is reference material. It only turns into a mark in the exam once you have used it under question conditions.

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