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The Financial Literacy of Senior Citizens
KOCANDOVÁ, Soňa
This bachelor thesis focuses on the elderly and their financial literacy. This thesis is divided into two main parts, theoretical and practical. The theoretical part defines actual knowledge about this theme and is divided into two chapters an introduction to issues about ageing and financial literacy. The author talks about seniors, demographic situation of ageing, forms of living, secured retirement in old age and financial literacy. The author also paid attention to presentations of products. The practical part includes the actual implementation of research and interpretation of the data is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the work and objectives of the research questions. The aim is to map the awareness of seniors in the effective management of their finances. The author also set partial research questions and the main research question is whether seniors are aware of their financial security. The second chapter researches methodology, which includes a qualitative research method of semi-structured interviews. The interviews are divided into three fields. The first is introductory information, the second field is financial literacy and the last field is presentations of products. The research methodology also characterizes the surveyed group, which consists of ten respondents over sixty five years old and lives in the Trebon region. In the third and the most extensive chapter there are the results and data. The elderly mostly answered in a different way however in some ways they agreed. The last chapter evaluates results and draws the author´s opinion. It has been found out that respondents have diverse interests and hobbies in retirement and they participate in them very actively. The income of the respondents is satisfactory to those who live in a household of two members. The financial situation has been described as good as well as average. Fifty percent of the respondents have experience with credit and only two of them create the budgets. The last set of questions was about demonstrations of goods and majority of the respondents have some experience with them. The last chapter is the conclusion which summarizes the information obtained. The main research question is whether seniors are aware of their financial security and the results show that all respondents have an over view of their finances. The elderly people orientate themselves well in money matters and they can optimally manage their money. They are vigilant in connection with credit and loans. They rather save money and they say that they do not buy anything when they do not have money. It is good that they are informed and can thus better resist the pitfalls that exist in this world, whether we like it or not. This thesis might be useful in practice for the elderly who want to try to draw up the budget. It can make a contribution to higher awareness about dangers of presentations of products.
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Consumption credit
PUKLICKÁ, Ivana
In literary research is to pursue attention laws related with consumption credit. The chapter personal and family finance deals with correct control finance. The final chapter in literary research describes consumption bankruptcy in detail. The aim of the diploma thesis is to evaluated consumption credit terms for the clients and possibilities of the clients as they could act in a case of problems with their defaults. Three banks and three nonbank institutions were choosen for the consumption credit terms evaluation. Next, the questionnaire was compiled for practical part of diploma thesis. After evaluation of questionnaire are presented statistics from varied sources. Next, the possibilities of the clients as they could act in a case of problems with their defaults. The diploma thesis is supplemented by solving dispute between debtor and credit provider. The last chapter diploma thesis deals with differences between offer consumption credit ČSOB from the Czech Republic and ČSOB from the Slovakia.
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The situation in financial literacy in the EU
BLAHOUTOVÁ, Žaneta
The aim of the diploma thesis is to explore the activities of the countries of the European Union in the district of financial literacy and to draw conclusions and eventually recommendations for the Czech Republic. At first, activities were detected in the district of financial literacy of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Austria and New Zealand and consequently were drew conclusions. Severally countries have developed many projects for improving financial literacy, but financial literacy isn´t still equally high in these countries, as it was showed by research PISA 2012. Next, questionaire relevant to financial institutions was applied to inhabitants of South Bohemia. The research was evaluated graphically and statistically. For statistical evaluation was used test assessment of independence Chi-quadrat for contingent table. The results of own research are very disturbing. Inhabitants of South Bohemia lack knowledge of important financial notions, they don´t know the difference between debit and credit cards and they don´t know, what is the APRC. One of the important results of the questionaire includes trust of the people to staff of the branches of banks or insurance companies. These people would contacted with most respondents in the case of dissatisfaction with the course of financial services. Contrariwise, people behave distrust to financial advisors, a few respondents use their services. The results of research correspond to the general level of financial literacy in the Czech Republic, which was discovered by general methods based on researches of Czech National Bank or PISA before now.
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Consumer protection in the credit
HRBKOVÁ, Vendula
This thesis is based on the bachelors thesis. It deals with current issues in the field of credit. This involves the history of this issue to the present and harmonization with EU law. It shows the situation after the amendment of the Act reporting obligations for loans provided to the penalties and sanctions. The theoretical part includes a barometer of credit to the 3rd quarter of 2013, and then figuring questionnaire consumer awareness and looking for possible recommendations and improvements to the current situation.
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Insolvency citizens of the Czech Republic
MATĚJKOVÁ, Michaela
The aim of my bachelor´s thesis is to map the situation of loan defaults by the Czech citizens. The theoretical part deals with the concept of insolvency. It is devoted to the description of the insolvency proceedings, the insolvency court characteristics and the characteristics of personal bankruptcy. Finally, the theoretical part is focused on the executors practise when loan aren´t repaid. The practical part aims the insolvency survey of the Czech citizens over 18 years old. Furthermore, the insolvency was compared according to sex, age, educational attainment and social status. Finally, it was investigated, how well are these respondents financially literate and if the lack of financial literacy affects the insolvency of surveyed ones.
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Analysis of financial literacy in Russia, with an emphasis on students of secondary schools and universities
Jedlička, Jan ; Radová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Leová, Simona (referee)
The objective of this work is to survey the level of financial literacy among students of secondary schools and universities in the Russian Federation, and compare it with the survey from 2008. This diploma thesis is divided into two parts. The first part is theoretical and describes Russia's actions in improving the financial literacy of its citizens. It also very briefly describes the situation in the Czech Republic. The main channels for disseminating financial literacy in the Russian Federation and the activities of the World Bank are introduced (as well). The practical part analyzes the results of a survey from 2013, which are compared with a similar survey from 2008 by the National Agency for Financial Research. A better understanding of the problems is provided by graphs and tables.
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The Level of Financial Literacy of Citizens
Vtípilová, Iveta ; Votava, Libor (advisor) ; Hromádko, Martin (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is an analysis of a level of financial literacy of citizens of Czech Republic. The opening part concentrates on the definition of basic concepts and on the characteristic of financial literacy. The second chapter deals with activities and programs for support of financial literacy on a multinational and European level and describes activities, which support financial literacy in the Czech Republic. The final chapter of this theoretical part contains a summary of the most important concepts of financial literacy in the context of normal civic life. The findings and outcomes of the fourth chapter are based on the processing results of the survey aimed to examine the financial literacy of the sample of respondents. The last part of this thesis is devoted to demonstration of possible activities to increase financial literacy.
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Analysis of the trend of household debt in the Czech Republic in the period of 2000 - 2011
Kučerková, Zuzana ; Kotýnková, Magdalena (advisor) ; Pavlíček, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the level of household debt in the Czech Republic in the period from 2000 to 2011, causes of indebtedness and analysis of use of personal bankruptcy. The theoretical part is focused on economic, social and legal aspect of the issue of household debt. The practical part consists of analysis of statistical data describing the development of the level of household debt in the years 2000 - 2011 with the help of monitoring absolute and relative measuring indicators. Further analysis is carried out using of personal bankruptcy in the Czech Republic in the period from 2008 to 2012. On the basic of these analyses, this work suggests the ways to improve the situation of over-indebted households. Special emphasis is placed on the relatively new of vulnerable households - pensioners and it is also defined the causes of this phenomenon.
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Interactive applications for teaching financial mathematics
ROSA, Přemysl
21. Century is the age of information and new technologies. Data and information from finance world are essential to make the right decisions and staying focused. New technologies also enabled new types of financial operations. All these changes made the financial education and deeper understanding of finance with its new operations a must. This bachelor thesis is focusing on extending a financial literacy by engaging and interactive form. The base is focused on explaining the most important terms of financial mathematics with connection to the formulas used in Smart documents. Explanation of the software user interface aimed on creation of Smart documents further expands this topic. Inclusion of history and origins of the Maplesoft Company and development of Maple software from its roots till today to fulfills the big picture of this thesis.
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