International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development

author(s)
Poonam, Mayuri Bora and Abhishek Mahendra

abstract
Financial Literacy is all components of knowledge, aptitude, and attitude towards financial products. Financial attitude is a person's propensity toward financial issues. It can be either a favourable or negative attitude toward money-related issues. The present study on attitude of young employees towards financial matters was conducted in Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat with a sample size of 60, selected from both from teaching and non-teaching employees. Result of the study shows that 73.33 percent teaching employees had moderately favorable attitude and 10.00 percent had highly favorable attitude towards financial matters. Among the non-teaching employees 63.33 percent had moderately favorable attitude, followed by 20.00 percent highly favorable attitude towards financial matters. Findings show that attitude statements for the teaching respondents ‘Establishing financial targets helps in achieving the goal in life’ ranked I with mean score 4.93 and ‘Spending more money in entertainment hinders saving’ ranked lowest (XXII) with mean score 1.87. For non-teaching respondents ‘Monthly budgeting helps in judicious use of money’ ranked I with mean score 5.00 and ‘Spending more money in entertainment hinders saving’ ranked XIX (lowest) with mean score 2.47.