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Do financial analysts decompose past earnings when making future earnings forecasts?

Bannister, James W.; Newman, Harry A. - In: Managerial Finance 24 (1998) 6, pp. 10-23

Explains why financial analysts could find it useful to separate past earnings into discretionary accruals and earnings before discretionary accruals; referring to related research to develop hypotheses on the effects of both on the change in analysts’ earnings forecasts for the subsequent...

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Divergence of analysts’ earnings forecasts and the stock returns‐earnings relation

Kirk, Florence R.; Lobo, Gerald J.; Fritsche, Stephen R. - In: Managerial Finance 24 (1998) 6, pp. 24-38

Outlines previous research on the relationship between stock returns and earnings and investigates the effects of divergence between security analysts’ earnings forecasts on this relationship. Uses cross‐sectional analysis, time series and variable parameter models on 1981‐88 US data to...

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Financial analysts’ earnings forecasts for loss firms

Das, Somnath - In: Managerial Finance 24 (1998) 6, pp. 39-50

Refers to previous research on the accuracy of financial analysts’ earnings forecasts and explores the differences in accuracy for loss making and non‐loss making firms using 1985‐1993 US data. Finds an optimistic bias for both types of firms (smaller for more recent forecasts); which is...

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Engendering trust in manager‐subordinate relationships

Connell, Julia; Ferres, Natalie; Travaglione, Tony - In: Personnel Review 32 (2003) 5, pp. 569-587

The recent growth in the trust literature indicates that both researchers and practitioners are continuing to recognise its importance as a factor for determining organisational success and the well‐being of employees. Trust is, however, a complex, multidimensional construct that has generated...

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Forecasting future competency requirements: a three‐phase methodology

Robinson, Mark A.; Sparrow, Paul R.; Clegg, Chris; … - In: Personnel Review 36 (2007) 1, pp. 65-90

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce an integrated three‐phase methodology for forecasting future …/implications – Methodologies for forecasting future competency requirements should adopt structured integrated approaches to improve predictive …/value – The paper seeks to improve upon existing methods for forecasting future competency requirements. By addressing the …

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Comparing hedonic models for estimating and forecasting house prices

Fletcher, Mike; Mangan, Jean; Raeburn, Emily - In: Property Management 22 (2004) 3, pp. 189-200

In published work on hedonic house price estimation it is not uncommon to examine some of the conditions required for the estimators to have desirable properties such as minimum variance and unbiasedness, in particular spatial autocorrelation. However, other conditions that can give rise to...

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Forecasting the Building Industry′s Prospects beyond 2000

Hutcheson, John M. - In: Property Management 12 (1994) 1, pp. 5-15

Aims to report the results of research into the techniques of forecasting long‐term building industry prospects … research into forecasting the building industry prospects in any country′s economy. …

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Changing technology and forecasting office space requirements

Sullivan, Kerry - In: Property Management 14 (1996) 1, pp. 24-29

Changes in information technology, demographics and corporate culture are considered when predicting the form, size and location of future offices. Argues that the likelihood of companies adopting more flexible work patterns such as teleworking, hotdesking, etc. and an increasingly distributed...

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Forecasting sponsorship costs: marketing intelligence in the athletic apparel industry

Jensen, Jonathan A.; Wakefield, Lane; Cobbs, Joe B.; … - In: Marketing Intelligence & Planning 34 (2016) 2, pp. 281-298

Purpose – Due in large part to the proprietary nature of costs, there is a dearth of academic literature investigating the factors influencing the costs for sport marketing investments, such as sponsorship. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to provide an analytical framework for market...

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A scenario approach for assessing new business concepts

Piirainen, Kalle; Kortelainen, Samuli; Elfvengren, Kalle; … - In: Management Research Review 33 (2010) 6, pp. 635-655

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine challenges in the front end of innovation (FEI) and to propose a scenario‐based approach to alleviate some of these problems, particularly as regards uncertainty in opportunity recognition. Design/methodology/approach – The paper answers...

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