Percepção dos graduandos de Administração sobre a educação financeira: um estudo na Autarquia Municipal de Ensino Superior de Goiana - AMESG

Abstract

Financial education is considered an important tool for conscious financial decision making. From this statement, the present research aimed to verify the perception of the students of the bachelor degree in Business Administration from Autarquia Municipal de Ensino Superior de Goiana (AMESG) regarding the theme “Financial Education”. It has a descriptive and exploratory nature, and a sample totaling 111 students. Data were obtained after the application of a questionnaire in person at the institution. The questions were constructed in order to describe the students' perception about Financial Education, to identify the importance attributed by the group to the theme and, after that, to compare their perception according to the identified genders. Through the results obtained, it was found that 51.3% of students have knowledge about Financial Education. Despite the balance of this number, the answers showed that it does not interfere with the way they plan, manage and use money. Given this scenario, students expressed interest in deepening their knowledge and recognized the importance of the subject, especially when living in periods of economic crisis.