We investigate whether investors are misled by firms that exclude particular expenses in calculating non-GAAP earnings in order to beat analysts' earnings forecasts. Our empirical analyses suggest that firms that pursue a strategy of non-GAAP reporting to beat analysts' earnings forecasts not...

We provide evidence of unreported trading by corporate insiders in their own firm's shares and link this activity to future firm earnings and analyst forecast error. Unreported trading are cases of discrepancies between insider shareholdings from trades reported to the Exchange and their...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine analysts' earnings forecasts during a period of heightened uncertainty and forecasting complexity, that of a forced change of CEO. How well do analysts utilise their information advantage to reduce information uncertainty between management and...

This article aims to highlight the degree of suitability of theinformation issued in the annual report with the conception ofthe usefulness of 49 volunteers and forecast information byTunisian financial analysts. Our questionnaire with 50 financialTunisian analysts aims to analyze the degree of...

Analysts' functions are divided into discovery and interpretation roles, but separating between the two is non-trivial. We conjecture that analysts' interpretation skill can be gauged by their forecast revisions following material unanticipated news — in particular following non-earnings 8-K...

This study investigates whether effective audit committees influence the association between management earnings forecasts and the properties of analysts‟ forecasts. We posit that this influence on the part of an audit committee would likely result from increased responsibility for monitoring...

Jensen and Meckling (1976) claim that by facilitating monitoring of firms’ activities, security analysis by financial analysts can reduce agency costs between management and external capital providers, and thereby increase shareholder value. Additionally, boards are required to design...

We find that financial analysts provide more thorough forecasts when firms’ institutional investors are distracted (i.e., when firms are neglected). We establish the causality of the effect by identifying exogenous shocks leading to institutional investor distraction following Kempf, Manconi,...

The performance of analysts’ forecasts has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, as yet, no empirical study has investigated the nexus between the analyst forecast dispersion (AFD) and excess returns surrounding stock market crashes in any depth. This paper attempts to fill...

This study investigates changes in foreign analyst behavior before and after Chinese New Accounting Standards was implemented during 2007. The empirical results show that after the new accounting standards were implemented, forecast error among foreign analysts decreased in both absolute and...