Educação financeira para o orçamento familiar no câmpus da UTFPR: instrumento de gestão pessoal

Abstract

This text handles the subject of the financial education in Brazil. Considered as a process of conceptual acquisition, with objectives and principles, it needs the commitment of regular practices to organize revenues, expenses and investments. Among them is the family budget, a management tool which branches into other practices that can require or not means like paper, pencil, eraser, pen, spreadsheets and computer programs. Other factors like the cultural issue of beliefs, the search of happiness, the certainty, the losses, the gains, the fantasies and the rationality were important to this universe. With industrialization and the new sales techniques, the world changed people into consumers of technology and science. Products like the automobile and the cell phone, with its multiple functions are objects of desire that interfere with people routine. Due the increasing necessity of taking short, middle and long-term decisions for personal finances, the objective of this dissertation was to analyze the actions of financial education organized in workshops that sought to comprehend different ways to manage the personal finances. The spatial delimitation was the school (Terra Firme School) and the academic (Federal University of Technology - Paraná – UTFPR Campus Curitiba) area, where happened financial education’s workshops during 2015 and 2016. The methodology was of qualitative nature, with the application of questionnaires and informal interviews. The dissertation distinguished itself by the idea of appropriation process of meanings and principles that is part of a financial education concept like estimate, the acquisition of financial products (insurances, retirement), risks, financial wellbeing, relations established on consumption acts, impartiality on judgements, efficiency and consciousness about the future. The findings highlight that the organization of personal finances depends on the attitudes and behavior, which originate from rationality and emotions. The money is a way of realizing transactions that needs to be administrated, and that is the reason why people needs knowledge and basic principles to the management of resources. The conclusion shows that, considering the different financial behavior profiles, it is important to add to the knowledge, especially to the public of education institutes, orientations to keep the gains bigger than the losses and this way to be able to plan the future with more life quality.