Spending Behavior of Management Students

One of the challenges that college students encounter is the difficulty to control the way they spend and in the Philippines, very minimal research has been conducted about this. The level of the perceived problem on the spending is still not absolutely figured out.Therefore, this study focused in determining the spending behavior of management students of the University of Saint Louis Tuguegarao using Quantitative survey research design. Stratified random sampling was used to determine the 234 respondents who are taking Management Accounting, Financial Management and Marketing Management course. A researcher made questionnaire was used for data collection. Respondents were found to spend tightly in terms of personal needs and academic purposes and loose in terms of food and transportation. Meanwhile, Independent samples test and Analysis of Variance were used to test the difference on spending behavior when grouped according to profile variables. It can be concluded that sex, course, year level and ethnicity are determinants of the difference on spending behavior of management students while socioeconomic status was found insignificant when comparing the said behavior.

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