Financial education and personal finance

This book is about the behavior of the students of Administration of the Autarquia do Ensino Superior de Garanhuns to the management of finances. This study had as a research question: What is the behavior of the students of Administration of an HEI in Garanhuns about financial education? In view of this problem, the following general objective emerged: to analyze the behavior of students of Administration of an HEI in Garanhuns about financial education. The methodology used had as its objective the exploratory and descriptive approaches, with bibliographic research technique, as a way of grounding in its theories and hypotheses to make it better known, clearer and more objective, thus facilitating its understanding; it was also applied a field research of the quantitative type, through a questionnaire, thus knowing the behavior of the administration students about financial education. The main results obtained were that 45% would live for up to a month with the same standard of living if they lost their source of income, 60% do not make investments, and only 17% feel secure in managing their own money.