Diagnóstico do conhecimento em finanças pessoais dos alunos de engenharia de produção da UTFPR Câmpus Londrina

Abstract

Several researches indicate that there is a lack of financial education among Brazilians, and one of the causes is the lack of education and financial literacy, in which people end up mismanaging their personal finances, which consequently ends up affecting their quality of life. In Higher Education, specifically in Production Engineering, developing financial education skills becomes fundamental for the development of skills applied in organizational daily life. The objective of this research is to verify whether the mandatory matters related to finances contribute to the acquisition of financial knowledge of students. This research was carried out using the survey method, which consists of collecting and analyzing data through direct interrogation, where a 26-question questionnaire was applied to Production Engineering students. From the results obtained, it is noted that the course contributes to the acquisition of financial knowledge by students, in which students in the final periods presented a higher rate of correct answers regarding the topic of financial knowledge.