Financial literacy of first-year university students : the role of education

Lovšin Kozina, Francka (author), Ponikvar, Nina (author)

This paper presents an insight into the characteristics of how students manage their finances and their general financial literacy. The study was carried out by surveying 259 students from two different faculties. Students from the study programs with economics subjects were statistically better at defining inflation, liquidity and real income. Statistically significant differences between courses were seen also in the area of investment decisions, business students prefer riskier investments like an investment in bonds or gold, whereas non-business students prefer saving the money in a savings account. The results show that students who had economics content in their program more often state they control their finance and have on average better financial knowledge. The results suggest that participation in economic/financial courses increases financial literacy and also feelings of mastery of financial areas, which is important to transfer knowledge into the practice.

• Language: English
• Keywords: financial literacy, financial management, education, knowledge, Slovenia, students
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2015
• Number of pages: Str. 241-255
• Numbering: Vol. 4, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-73699
• UDC: 336:37.014.22
• ISSN on article: 2232-5107
• COBISS.SI-ID: 10810441
• Publication date in RUL: 25.11.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of management, knowledge and learning
• Publisher: ToKnowPress, Mednarodna fakulteta za družbene in poslovne študije
• ISSN: 2232-5107
• COBISS.SI-ID: 259517440

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• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: finančna pismenost, denar, Pedagoška fakulteta, Ekonomska fakulteta