The Influence of Financial Literacy on Entrepreneurial Intention

DOI

10.2991/icame-18.2019.74How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Entrepreneurship intention, financial literacy, financial behavior

Abstract

This research aims to analyze how financial literacy influences entrepreneurial intention. The method used is quantitative method with logistic regression analysis. Data was collected from 382 undergraduate students in Musamus University. The results of the analysis show that financial literacy influences entrepreneurial intention. Students who have high financial literacy have higher entrepreneurial intention than students with low financial literacy. Four aspects of financial literacy, general knowledge of personal finance, saving-loan, insurance and investment effect on entrepreneurial intention. The contribution of this research is to support the importance of financial education for students in order to increase the interest in entrepreneurship.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Benediktus Elnath Aldi
AU  - Irine Herdjiono
AU  - Gerzon Maulany
AU  - Fitriani
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - The Influence of Financial Literacy on Entrepreneurial Intention
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Accounting, Management and Economics 2018 (ICAME 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 700
EP  - 703
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icame-18.2019.74
DO  - 10.2991/icame-18.2019.74
ID  - Aldi2019/08
ER  -