Analisar a percepção da educação financeira para os alunos do 8º semestre no curso de Ciências Contábeis na UFC

Abstract

The issue of financial education in Brazil is a relatively new issue for the Brazilian population, because people started to think and study more reality, this issue with the introduction of the Real Plan, which means 20 years of relative economic stability. This period which the population becomes used to put into practice before difficult concepts to apply. Thus this article aims to investigate the influence that the disciplines, the curriculum Grid Accounting Course, Federal University of Ceará (UFC), have applicability in knowledge of personal finance in the lives of students. The theoretical framework of this article goes through topics like Financial Education, Financial Planning, Personal Financial Planning, Debt and Curriculum to check that the different profiles between the population and the students that have been discussed on the topic financial education and formal education. After the confrontation of this theory to the analysis of results of a questionnaire that was applied to the (UFC), with students of the eighth semester of Accounting. Thus we find that 80 % of students surveyed do some kind of investment, well above the current percentage of Brazilian families.