Hutton, Amy P.; Miller, Gregory S.; Skinner, Douglas J. - In: Journal of Accounting Research 41 (2003) 5, pp. 867-890
We investigate managers' decisions to supplement their firms' management earnings forecasts. We classify these supplementary disclosures as qualitative "soft talk" disclosures or verifiable forward-looking statements. We find that managers provide soft talk disclosures with similar frequency for...