THE QUANTITATIVE REASONING IN THE FINANCIAL DECISION-MAKING OF THE LATIN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

The research had as objective to describe the effect of the quantitative analysis in financial decision-making in students of Latin America and the Caribbean. Methodologically sought a review study through a content analysis, in which we employed the search engines Redalyc, Scielo and Google scholar, using as key words: (a) quantitative reasoning, (b) decision making, (c) finance, (d) management, (d) financial education and selecting through a sample based on the following criteria: (a) documents with information of authorship, (b) to address the quantitative reasoning and decision making in finance, (c) allow to understand the implications for education of the variables in the study, allowing to discriminate a total of 30 articles to review. The analysis of the texts allowed us to identify three categories of analysis (a) quantitative Reasoning, openness to the structured thought; (b) Decision making, cognitive process of high-level; (c) financial Management, a turning point towards economic emancipation, which led them to conclude that the financial culture, understood as a whole within the economy of the students, it should be one of the transversal axes in which the curricula of higher education centers should venture, in order to transform the current realities of students in the region.