Financial Intelligence among Heads of Financial-Related Offices of Southern Luzon State University (SLSU)

Abstract

Financial-related offices play a vital role in every organization’s success. That being said, heads of these offices have big responsibilities to achieve the goals of their respective organizations. This study aimed to determine the respondents’ demographic profiles as to: age, sex, educational background, years in service, and job description, to measure the financial intelligence of the financial-related office heads of the University, to determine the perceived effect of respondents’ financial intelligence on their job performance, to know the relationship of the office heads’ demographic profile, except for their job description, and their scores in the financial intelligence quotient test, and to determine the problems encountered by the office heads which require the use of financial intelligence. The study is a descriptive type of research. The research was done by giving an unstructured financial intelligence quotient test to the respondents and a questionnaire to determine their perceived effect of financial intelligence to their job performance. The researchers found out that in general, the respondents are financially intelligent with a general average of 71.43 percent, above by a little percentage point to the set 70 percent passing rate. No positive correlation was found out between age and years in service of the respondents, and their financial intelligence quotient. A positive correlation was proven between sex and financial intelligence quotient. Moreover, the respondents perceived that financial intelligence largely affects their job performance as interpreted by the 4.3549 weighted mean in the Likert’s scaled-questionnaire used. On the other hand, the respondents believe that they do not encounter problems in performing their tasks requiring financial intelligence.