Level of Knowledge in Personal Finance by University Freshmen Management Students

Zuzana Kozubíková – University of Žilina, Faculty of Managements and Informatics, Dpt. of Macro and Microeconomics, Univerzitná 8215/1, 010 26 Žilina, Slovakia

Aleš Kozubík – University of Žilina, Faculty of Managements and Informatics, Dpt. of Mathematical Methods and Operations Research, Univerzitná 8215/1, 010 26 Žilina, Slovakia

7th International Scientific ERAZ Conference – ERAZ 2021 – Selected Papers: KNOWLEDGE BASED SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT,  Online/virtual, May 27, 2021

ERAZ Conference Selected Papers are published by: Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans – Belgrade, Serbia

ERAZ conference partners: Faculty of Economics and Business, Mediterranean University, Montenegro; University of National and World Economy – Sofia, Bulgaria; Faculty of Commercial and Business Studies – Celje, Slovenia; AMBIS University, Prague – Czech Republic; Faculty of Applied Management, Economics and Finance – Belgrade, Serbia

ERAZ Conference 2021 Selected Papers ISBN 978-86-80194-47-9, ISSN 2683-5568, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/ERAZ.S.P.2021

Abstract: Financial literacy becomes one of the key competencies for life in modern society, and its importance grew significantly in the last decade. The study aims to determine how well newly coming university management stu­dents understand basic consumer financial concepts. The research is based on primary data by questionnaires and a sample of 342 students from the target population within Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The question­naire contained in its first part some questions covering the individual per­sonal socio-economic characteristics. In the second part, the respondents solved thirteen problems submitted as multiple-choice questions that tested their knowledge about personal finance. Authors examine the relationships among the personality characteristics of the students and their financial liter­acy. This leads to several remarkable findings. Due to the specialization of the study, the difference between the genders is blurred. As a significant source of the differences in financial literacy, the authors detect the previous education of the respondents and the forms of education in financial literacy.

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