Gestão das finanças: a importância da educação financeira nas famílias

Abstract

This study seeks to understand how financial education can help families to manage and control their finances, as well as how private organizations use the concepts of financial administration, accounting and planning for survival and perpetuation of their activities. The research had as a qualitative bibliographical research method of explanatory character, it was used a literature review on family financial management to achieve the proposed objectives. The search and reading of literature available in academic portals such as Google Books, Google Academic and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO) was applied. Based on the literature, the importance of including financial education in the basis of secular education, was observed, as a way to include in the management of families, financial principles to assist in consumption decisions and projections for the future. Therefore, in addition to promoting the inclusion of financial education at school, strategies are needed to include financial concepts in families in a practical way, helping to develop a balanced and conscious behavior.