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How Financial Literacy Impacts Financial Decisions for Business Owners of Both Genders in Canada

The difference in financial literacy among business owners may affect how financial decisions are made, especially when comparing between women and men. Using role congruity theory as the theoretical framework, the objective of this study is to examine how financial literacy, composed of financial knowledge and financial confidence, differs in influence in the decision-making process of financial decisions between self-employed women and self-employed men. Based on data from the 2014 Canadian Financial Capability Survey (CFCS), results show that self-employed women and self-employed men have equivalent financial knowledge. In addition, while self-employed women have less financial confidence than self-employed men, self-employed men are more overconfident than self-employed women, both groups are, in general equally likely to make risky (bad) decisions. This suggests that financial confidence plays an important role as financial knowledge does in the decision-making process.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/39307
Date14 June 2019
CreatorsNegreiros Alves Junior, Acacio Jose
ContributorsRiding, Allan
PublisherUniversité d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Source SetsUniversité d’Ottawa
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
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