A influência dos estudantes de contabilidade na educação financeira de suas famílias

Abstract

The general objective of this work was to analyze the impact of financial education on the professional and family spheres of Accounting students at the State University of Maranhão, on the Codó campus. To this end, we started with a bibliographical review of reference authors such as Silva, Leal and Araújo (2018), Vieira, Junior and Pothich (2019), Silva et al. (2020), Quiroz, Pires and Mazzer (2021), Sayed and Santos (2022). As for the methodology, this research is classified as descriptive, survey or quantitative, using descriptive statistics and inferential logistic regression in the Stata 15 program, in addition to the Google Forms tool for the questionnaire and had a sample of 116 respondents. Although this work did not have statistically significant results, the main findings were that the variables age, period (semester that the student is studying), family income, marital status, the individual having dependents, gender and financial control impact individuals' financial decisions, according to the expected result from the reference literature.