Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Banking, Accounting, Management and Economics (ICOBAME 2020)

Financial Literation Levels of Small Businesses in Bajawa, Ngada District

Authors
Gabriel Tanusi, Yulius Laga
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Gabriel Tanusi
Available Online 13 March 2021.
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10.2991/aebmr.k.210311.002How to use a DOI?
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financial decisions, financial literacy, financial education
Abstract

This study aims to identify: the behavior of small business actors in making financial decisions, especially decisions related to investment, saving and consumption; measuring the level of financial literacy of small business actors, and measuring the role of financial institutions and the Ngada Regency government in educating small business actors in managing their company finances. This research is a descriptive research with survey techniques. The population in this study were small business actors in Bajawa sub-district engaged in restaurant and trade businesses. The results showed that 70% of respondents used the income from their business profits for consumption activities, 20% for investment activities in the form of buying land, building houses, buying two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicles, and 10% for saving activities. The level of financial literacy of respondents is 50% classified as not literate, 33% classified as less literate, and 17% classified as sufficient literate. The role of financial institutions and the Ngada Regency government in educating business actors is still relatively low, namely 25%

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Banking, Accounting, Management and Economics (ICOBAME 2020)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
13 March 2021
ISBN
10.2991/aebmr.k.210311.002
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/aebmr.k.210311.002How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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