Introduction to valuation -- Financial statement analysis -- Measuring free cash flows -- Creating a financial model -- The adjusted present value and weighted average cost of capital discounted cash flow valuation methods -- Measuring continuing value using the constant-growth perpetuity model...

Many mathematically similar models are being used by business researchers to link binary dependent variables with a set of predictor variables. Typical research results indicate little difference between models in their ability to properly classify observations. But, there appear to be major...

Evidence is provided of security analyst (SA) superiority relative to univariate time-series (TS) models in predicting firms' quarterly earnings numbers. It is demonstrated that SA forecast superiority in the sample is attributable to: 1. better use of information that exists on the date that TS...

This paper empirically examines whether labor strikes affect the forecasting and information content of quarterly earnings numbers. We address two issues regarding financial analyst forecast (FAF) superiority: whether FAF superiority increases when a strike occurs and if so, whether the increase...

This study examines the association between abnormal returns and five alternative proxies for the market's assessment of unexpected quarterly earnings. We examine the role that measurement error potentially has in multiple regression tests of abnormal returns (occurring around the time of...