This study investigates the influence of increased financial inclusion on entrepreneurship in South Africa, employing an interpretivist approach. It uses qualitative research on the personal experiences of consumers and entrepreneurs to establish the direct benefits and barriers of these changes. The research explores the experiences and perspectives of entrepreneurs regarding access to financial services, the role of financial inclusion in entrepreneurial growth, the impact of technology on financial inclusion, financial literacy, and awareness, as well as recommendations for policy and practice. Findings reveal that while there has been progress in enhancing financial access, challenges such as high bank charges, stringent documentation requirements, and limited financial literacy remain a problem, particularly among underserved populations. However, increased access to financial services has facilitated entrepreneurial activities, with entrepreneurs leveraging innovations like mobile banking and online payment systems. Policy implications suggest the need for targeted interventions to address barriers to financial inclusion and promote entrepreneurship, including simplifying banking processes, expanding financial literacy programs, and improving access to financing for new entrepreneurs and small businesses.  The findings offer valuable insights for economic agents, including consumers, financial firms, and policymakers, into fostering a more inclusive financial ecosystem that promotes entrepreneurial development and economic growth.

The rapid evolution of technology in the modern society have changed the preferences and customer needs in all markets. Industries have over the years moved further towards a more digitalized environment. This fact makes it necessary to study the changes of consumer needsfor companies to successfully convert their business models to fit into a modern era. Financial services are a great example of an industry that have moved from traditional to digital methods and an industry that society depends. Gamification is a growing marketing and learning tool that has been proven effective when it comes to increasing engagement, behaviour and literacythrough the use of game-like elements such as point systems, rewards and leaderboards. This study’s purpose is to expand on previous research to determine the preferences and customer needs that allows for gamification to be a successful tool to engage customers in Swedish financial services. This purpose of the study resulted in the following research question: “What factors influence consumer attitudes towards and acceptance of gamification solutions within the Swedish financial services?” To answers the research question previous research on Self-determination theory, flow theory and social cognitive theory regarding psychological and personal needs were used to reach 9reliable and measurable factors. A questionnaire was sent out with questions measuring these factors as well as four questions serving as dependent variables as a measure of how gamification increases engagement, brand loyalty, financial literacy and attitudes. A total of 97 responses were collected and analysed through multiple regressions to find the effects the factors had on the four dependent variables. The result of this study shows that psychological and personal factors such as Innovativeness, need for uniqueness, Competence, Relatedness, Goals & Feedback, Challenge and Outcome expectations have a significant positive effective influencing consumers attitudes and acceptance of gamified solutions within Swedish financial services. Factors such as autonomyand Observational learning & Self-efficacy were also found significant on their own towards the measured variables but found that in combination with other factors to not be of statistically significance.

Studies as described in the literature review indicate that most South Africans are highly in debt. The South African Reserve Bank’s quarterly bulletin is one of the prominent barometers for measuring household debt in the country and over the last five years has been indicating a steady decline but still very high household debt among South Africans. Studies have also shown that this relates to poor financial literacy and consumer ignorance in applying basic financial management practices. This is discussed in Chapter two of the study. The aim of the study was to determine the consumer debt level of the Department of Health public servants in Mahikeng, North West Province. This study used a consumer survey to measure consumer indebtedness among public servants in Mahikeng. The results of the study support literature in that the study found that most public servants are indebted. The findings also showed that 63% of the public servants spent more than 20% of their income in servicing debt. Thirteen per cent of the public servants taking part in the study had been served with either garnishee or emolument orders. The results of the study seem to suggest that public servants working for the Department of Health in Mahikeng and taking part in the study were indebted. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)

This master's thesis focuses on the teaching of financial literacy at lower secondary schools in the Czech Republic. The main goal was to characterize and evaluate a selection of internet based programs that specialize in financial literacy in order to gain insight on how the users view the issue at hand and how they interact with these programs. The thesis employs a qualitative research method. The first section is devoted to the theoretical introduction to finance, its definition, characteristics and the components of financial literacy. A special focus was also put on the development of financial literacy in the Czech Republic and the main documents in which it is grounded. The need for implementation of financial literacy into secondary schools' curriculums was based on surveys about the level of financial literacy among students and public. The practical part of this thesis consists of two closely interrelated sections. Firstly, it outlines and examines three different online programs created to help teachers design their financial literacy courses more effectively. Secondly, the thesis presents a methodological research using structured interviews with open questions and concludes by demonstrating the results. KEYWORDS Financial education, school education, education, financial literacy,...

Made available in DSpace on 2015-12-03T18:33:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Virginia_Prestes_Bernardes_Camillo.pdf: 841849 bytes, checksum: 5e36432262fd5944c6116a5c3ad3cbe2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-06 / The present work has investigated from the point of view of the financial education, if the university??s students are a potential market for the popularization of equities investment and if the creation of a brokerage office, or something similar, within the educational environment, would be feasible. To achieve the general and specific objectives, it has been done interviews with managers from the educational area, managers from the capital market, and research through a questionnaire survey with students with a higher education and also a review of the literature related to financial education. The results of the research indicated that there are huge student??s interest in learning financial education; the creation of a brokerage office, or similar, within the university area was well received by educational managers as well as capital market managers, with the only requirement to combine financial practice to the theory given by the academy. It is intended that this research provides guidance popularization actions, both by the exchange as well as stockbrokers and investment agents, emphasizing the importance of bringing knowledge about finance to the people so we can have a solid foundation in the country of aware investors / O presente trabalho investigou do ponto de vista da educa????o financeira, se o p??blico universit??rio representa um mercado potencial para a populariza????o do investimento em renda vari??vel e se a cria????o de um escrit??rio de corretora, ou algo semelhante, dentro do ambiente educacional seja vi??vel. Para atingir os objetivos geral e espec??ficos foram realizadas entrevistas com gestores da ??rea de educa????o, gestores do mercado de capitais, pesquisa por meio de question??rio com alunos do ensino superior e revis??o da bibliografia relacionada ?? educa????o financeira. O resultado das pesquisas indicou que h?? claro interesse dos alunos em aprender educa????o financeira; a cria????o de um escrit??rio de corretora, ou similar, dentro de faculdades foi bem recebida tanto por gestores da ??rea educacional quanto do mercado de capitais, tendo como principal requisito aliar a pr??tica financeira ?? teoria ministrada pela academia, evitando-se eventuais conflitos de interesse. Pretende-se que esta pesquisa norteie a????es de populariza????o, tanto por parte da bolsa como tamb??m de corretoras de valores, agentes de investimentos e, finalmente, institui????es de ensino superior, enfatizando a import??ncia de levar conhecimento sobre finan??as ?? popula????o para que possamos ter no pa??s uma s??lida base de investidores conscientes

Submitted by Elba Lopes (elba.lopes@fecap.br) on 2016-06-02T18:28:52Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Rafael Sandini Augusto.pdf: 7978466 bytes, checksum: 66fad61e1bd2e6c436fb75c309ba837c (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T18:28:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Rafael Sandini Augusto.pdf: 7978466 bytes, checksum: 66fad61e1bd2e6c436fb75c309ba837c (MD5) license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-08-27 / This study deals with the financial habits of college students, studying in Mass Higher Education Institutions. The aim was to ascertain the financial knowledge and financial practice of university students who attend three mass universities in S??o Paulo - SP. The study included 426 students who responded to the questionnaire. As noted in the study, the sample did not show a homogeneous behavior and also provided some evidence of the use of principles of financial education, such as the invoice conference credit cards held by 62.44% of young people, 62.91% have routine to pay the bills on time and 66.9% have the habit of comparing prices before making a purchase, however they also have contrary characteristics to these principles as no comparison in interest rates between the forward options, identified in 56.34% of the sample, 50.46% had a tendency to make impulse purchases, which shows strong evidence of non-literacy of mass university students. It is still possible to observe a significant percentage of young people who show the margin of use of the principles of financial education, they present contrary habits such as the use of overdraft limit found in 11.03%, the third party the name of the loan reported by 28% of respondents and the incidence of 30.04% already had their name registered in the credit protection services. The work is relevant to managers of the surveyed educational institutions, as this could guide them in implementing financial education programs for students, to make them more qualified young people for making financial decisions, contributing to the reduction of evasion and delinquency of these students since they began to plan their spending and to distribute their income according to your personal demands. / Este estudo trata dos h??bitos financeiros de estudantes universit??rios, que estudam em Institui????es de Ensino Superior de Massa. O objetivo, foi averiguar o conhecimento financeiro e a pr??tica financeira de jovens universit??rios que frequentam tr??s universidades de massa na cidade de S??o Paulo - SP. Participaram do estudo 426 alunos que responderam ao question??rio. Como foi observado neste estudo a amostra n??o demonstrou um comportamento homog??neo e apresentou ind??cios da utiliza????o de princ??pios da educa????o financeira, tais como, a confer??ncia da fatura de cart??es de credito realizada por 62,44% dos jovens, 62,91% tem a rotina de pagar as contas em dia e 66,9% tem o habito de comparar o pre??o antes de realizar uma compra, porem tamb??m apresentam caracter??sticas contrarias a estes princ??pios como a n??o compara????o da taxa de juros entre as op????es de compra a prazo, identificada em 56,34% da amostra, 50,46% apresentaram tend??ncias a realizar compras por impulso, o que demonstra fortes ind??cios da n??o alfabetiza????o dos jovens universit??rios de massa. Ainda ?? poss??vel observar um percentual significativos de jovens que se mostram a margem da utiliza????o dos princ??pios de educa????o financeira, pois apresentam h??bitos contr??rios a tais, como a utiliza????o do limite do cheque especial constatado em 11,03%, o empr??stimo do nome ?? terceiros relatados por 28% dos entrevistados e a incid??ncia de 30,04% j?? tiveram seu nome cadastrado nos servi??os de prote????o ao credito. O trabalho se torna relevante para os gestores das institui????es de ensino pesquisadas, pois poder?? orient??-los na implementa????o de programas de educa????o financeira para os alunos, visando tornar estes jovens mais capacitados para a tomada de decis??es financeiras, contribuindo na redu????o da evas??o e inadimpl??ncia desses alunos, uma vez que passaram a planejar seus gastos e a distribuir sua renda de acordo com suas demandas pessoais.

Submitted by Elba Lopes (elba.lopes@fecap.br) on 2017-06-05T17:22:42Z No. of bitstreams: 2 LUIZ ANTONIO BARBAGALLO.pdf: 536294 bytes, checksum: 75dfd2885ca8f1b1789647b6d0d6c1af (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-05T17:22:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 LUIZ ANTONIO BARBAGALLO.pdf: 536294 bytes, checksum: 75dfd2885ca8f1b1789647b6d0d6c1af (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-29 / Seeking to understand the factors that influence people`s financial decisions has been very frequent in academic research in several countries. Even considering the characteristics of each country, several common points have been identified in order to explain people???s financial behavior. In Brazil, the theme ???financial behavior and education??? increases significantly, because the improvement of population living conditions in the last years brought a significant number of people to market, and, in this scenario, a look at young adults is very important as long as this population range begins to engage in financial decisions, such as purchasing a vehicle, a real state property or starting a financial reserve for emergencies. To understand the financial behavior of these young people, this research makes a replication of De Bassa Scheresberg (2013). The work seeks to explain how social economics profiles and financial knowledge are related to young people???s behavior in decisions about loans, formation of financial reservations and retirement planning. Some findings of this study, accomplished through a research with 419 young people from six universities of the city of S??o Paulo, were similar to the object of the replication and to other studies, while other findings were not. This research concludes, in the same way as De Bassa Sheresberg (2013), that income and education are important predictors of financial education. It also concludes the variable ???educational institutional rating??? is a strong predictor of knowledge and financial behavior of young people. / A busca pelo entendimento dos fatores que influenciam as pessoas em suas decis??es financeiras tem sido uma constante em diversos trabalhos acad??micos em v??rios pa??ses. Mesmo considerando as caracter??sticas de cada pa??s, diversos pontos em comum t??m sido identificados nos estudos para explicar o comportamento financeiro das pessoas. No Brasil, o tema educa????o e comportamento financeiro ganha cada vez mais espa??o, pois a melhora da condi????o de vida da popula????o nos ??ltimos anos trouxe para o mercado um contingente expressivo de pessoas, e dentro deste cen??rio, um olhar sobre os jovens adultos torna-se importante na medida em que essa faixa da popula????o come??a a se envolver em decis??es financeiras, tais como a compra de um ve??culo, de um im??vel, ou a forma????o de uma reserva para emerg??ncias. Para entender o comportamento financeiro desses jovens, este trabalho faz uma replica????o do estudo de De Bassa Scheresberg (2013). O estudo procura explicar as rela????es dos perfis socioecon??micos e da an??lise do n??vel de conhecimento financeiro com o comportamento dos jovens nas decis??es relativas a empr??stimos, forma????o de reservas e planejamento para aposentadoria. Alguns resultados deste trabalho, realizado atrav??s de uma pesquisa com 419 jovens de seis faculdades da cidade de S??o Paulo, foram semelhantes ao estudo objeto desta replica????o e tamb??m a outros estudos, por??m, alguns resultados foram divergentes. O trabalho conclui, da mesma forma que o estudo base, que renda e educa????o s??o importantes preditores de educa????o financeira. Conclui tamb??m que a vari??vel ???classifica????o da institui????o de ensino??? ?? um forte preditor de conhecimento e comportamento financeiro dos jovens.

Studies as described in the literature review indicate that most South Africans are highly in debt. The South African Reserve Bank’s quarterly bulletin is one of the prominent barometers for measuring household debt in the country and over the last five years has been indicating a steady decline but still very high household debt among South Africans. Studies have also shown that this relates to poor financial literacy and consumer ignorance in applying basic financial management practices. This is discussed in Chapter two of the study. The aim of the study was to determine the consumer debt level of the Department of Health public servants in Mahikeng, North West Province. This study used a consumer survey to measure consumer indebtedness among public servants in Mahikeng. The results of the study support literature in that the study found that most public servants are indebted. The findings also showed that 63% of the public servants spent more than 20% of their income in servicing debt. Thirteen per cent of the public servants taking part in the study had been served with either garnishee or emolument orders. The results of the study seem to suggest that public servants working for the Department of Health in Mahikeng and taking part in the study were indebted. / Business Management / M. Com. (Business Management)

The diploma thesis "Financial literacy at secondary school VIZE" is focused on the level of financial literacy at this school. This school is a part of the prison Jiřice. The thesis is divided into two parts, the theoretical part and the practical part. The first one deals with financial literacy. It analyses its components, the definition and development. It also includes forms and methods of teaching financial literacy. The second one, practical part, is focused on the research. This research deals with the level of financial literacy of people in prison, who are educated at SŠ VIZE.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-11T11:58:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Antonio de Souza.pdf: 1542597 bytes, checksum: f061f50caaad575d2edaa18c72092440 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T11:58:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ricardo Antonio de Souza.pdf: 1542597 bytes, checksum: f061f50caaad575d2edaa18c72092440 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In recent years, we have noticed a large increase in the number of families in Brazil, thinking about how to contribute to the improvement of this situation, we decided to develop this research, which seeks to verify if financial mathematics, when developed by mathematical modeling as a teaching and learning strategy, can contribute to the development of students' financial behavior in a higher technology course in logistics and computer science. In the present research, we hypothesize that when financial mathematics is developed using this strategy, there is a positive influence on the understanding of the content worked and, consequently, influences the financial behavior of the subject. In order to validate our hypothesis, we use the modeling processes, which brings the student closer to the real scientific activity, that is, the student becomes a researcher, testing conjectures, formulating hypotheses, proving, constructing models, concepts, theories and socializing the results. According to this strategy, it is up to the teacher to provide favorable situations, so that the student in this effective action on knowledge, transform it into knowledge in this process of scientific search. Recent research shows that students who have already completed the discipline of financial mathematics in an undergraduate course usually do not use or associate the studied content with their financial life, so we try to answer the following research question: The use of mathematical modeling as a strategy for teaching and learning Financial Mathematics, could contribute to the development of Financial Education ?. As well as the following specific questions: What evidence of financial literacy can be identified after a training on Financial Mathematics centered on the modeling approach? What contributions of mathematical modeling can be identified for the construction of financial literacy? To answer them, we created a questionnaire to be applied to students of two technology courses of a public institution of higher education, located in the great ABC - SP. Being the first, technology in logistics and the second in computing. The students of the first course answered the questionnaire after attending a financial mathematics workshop, structured by mathematical modeling. In order to have a comparative parameter of answers, we apply the same questionnaire to students of the second course, but these without participating in the workshop of financial mathematics. With the answers given to the questionnaire, we performed a cohesive analysis with the help of the CHIC software, and identified traits of development of financial education by our target audience / Nos últimos anos, notamos um grande aumento do individamento das famílias brasileiras, pensando em como contrubuir para a melhora desse quadro, decidimos desenvolver esta pesquisa, que busca verificar se a matemática financeira, quando desenvolvida por modelagem matemática como estratégia de ensino e aprendizagem, pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento do comportamento financeiro dos alunos de um curso superior de tecnologia em logística e informática. Na presente pesquisa, temos por hipótese que, quando a matemática financeira é desenvolvida utilizando esta estratégia, existe influência positiva na compreensão dos conteúdos trabalhados e, por consequência, influencia o comportamento financeiro do sujeito. Buscando validar nossa hipótese, utilizamos os processos de modelagem, a qual aproxima o aluno da atividade científica verdadeira, ou seja, o aluno se torna um pesquisador, testando conjecturas, formulando hipóteses, provando, construindo modelos, conceitos, teorias e socializando os resultados. Segundo essa estratégia, cabe ao professor, providenciar situações favoráveis, de modo que o aluno nessa ação efetiva sobre o saber, o transforme em conhecimento nesse processo de busca científica. Pesquisas recentes nos mostram que alunos que já cursaram a disciplina de matemática financeira em um curso de graduação, normalmente não utilizam ou associam o conteúdo estudado com a sua vida financeira, assim, procuramos responder a seguinte questão de pesquisa: A utilização da modelagem matemática como estratégia de ensino e aprendizagem de Matemática Financeira, poderá contribuir para o desenvolvimento da Educação Financeira?. Bem como as seguintes questões específicas: Que indícios de letramento financeiro podem ser identificados após uma formação sobre Matemática Financeira centrada na abordagem pela modelagem? Que contribuições da modelagem matemática podem ser identificadas para a construção do letramento financeiro? Para respondê-las, montamos um questionário a ser aplicado para alunos de dois cursos de tecnologia de uma instituição pública de ensino superior, localizada no grande ABC – SP. Sendo o primeiro, tecnologia em logística e o segundo em informática. Os alunos do primeiro curso responderam o questionário após participarem de uma oficina de matemática financeira, estruturada pela modelagem matemática. Para termos um parâmentro comparativo de respostas, aplicamos o mesmo questionário para alunos do segundo curso, mas estes sem participarem da oficina de matemática financeira. Com as respostas dadas ao questionário, realizamos uma análise coesitiva com o auxílio do software CHIC, e identificamos traços de desenvolvimento de educação financeira por parte do nosso público alvo