Educação financeira: fatores de influência do conhecimento dos estudantes de administração, ciências contábeis e economia na UFPB

Abstract

This monograph aims to report the level of knowledge of incoming and outgoing students of Business Administration, Accounting and Economics at UFPB on financial education. Thus showing whether the curriculum of the courses contributes to students making better use of their resources. To this end, a descriptive survey was conducted, with a quantitative approach, enabling, with this tool, a better approach to the daily lives of individuals who participated in the sample. These degrees at UFPB have 1980 students with active enrollment, but 148 were interviewed to obtain the data analysis of this research. The study obtained in its results that the level of knowledge of the concluding students of Accounting Sciences was highlighted with 71% of the concluding students claiming to have a satisfactory level of knowledge about financial education. This index shows association in smaller proportion with contents present in the university classes and great family influence in the financial behavior, choosing parental behaviors such as the adoption of allowance and the discussion on budget and household expenses as important influences on the financial education of children.