La importancia de la educación financiera en estudiantes universitarios

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.7872402094

• Palavras-chave: Educación financiera, finanzas, estudiantes universitarios

• Keywords: Financial education, finance, college students

• Abstract: Nowadays, having basic financial knowledge is more important due to the economic, financial and technological evolution of society. The objective of this work is to identify the level of knowledge that students of the Faculty of Administrative Sciences have about financial education and how it influences their academic and professional performance, based on the suggestion given by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an organization that recognizes the need to promote financial education programs, aimed at all citizens and starting this task at school. This case study is descriptive and non-experimental cross-sectional. The measurement instrument was a questionnaire, which was applied to students of all educational programs offered by the academic unit, to measure the level of knowledge of financial education that students have, in order to provide information and suggest alternatives to enrich their knowledge and stimulate learning, putting into practice the proposed financial tools. The results show that the main factor affecting students' financial education is the lack of dissemination of the programs, as well as the lack of awareness of the importance of finances in people's daily lives, which can lead to errors in making financial decisions in the future.