2020
Financial Literacy of University Students Measured by P-FIN Index
POLÁK, Josef; Zuzana KOZUBÍKOVÁ and Aleš KOZUBÍKBasic information
Original name
Financial Literacy of University Students Measured by P-FIN Index
Authors
POLÁK, Josef (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution); Zuzana KOZUBÍKOVÁ (703 Slovakia) and Aleš KOZUBÍK (703 Slovakia)
Edition
Belgrade, Serbia, The 6th International Scientific Conference: Selected Papers, p. 61-69, 9 pp. 2020
Publisher
Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Proceedings paper
Field of Study
50200 5.2 Economics and Business
Country of publisher
Serbia
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form
electronic version available online
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Organization unit
AMBIS University
ISBN
978-86-80194-34-9
ISSN
UT WoS
000833526400007
Keywords in English
Financial education; Financial management; Financial decision making; Statistical methods; Questionnaire survey.
Tags
Changed: 27/3/2023 14:05, Bc. Olga Puldová
Abstract
In the original language
Financial literacy belongs to the most important competences of all members of the modern 21-st century society. The authors present results of the research based on the personal finance index that is recently developed an innovative measure of knowledge. The questionnaire research that has been conducted among the students of two universities in the Czech and Slovak republic. It focused on full-time and part-time students with the aim to verify the suggestion that practical experience of distance learning students has a significant impact on the level of their financial literacy. Statistical analysis of the data shows, that part-time students have achieved better results in all functional areas of the personal finance index. Based on these findings authors also drew some conclusions for improving education in this field.