information flow from the supplier to customers, we find that the frequencies of management earnings and sales forecasts are …

Sales and profit margins are two popular earnings components discussed in the media. We study properties of one …-year-ahead analyst forecasts of these two components. As sales are in dollar amounts and profit margin is a ratio, we propose robust … correlation of forecast errors—apply to both sales and profit margins. Sales forecasts, in general, perform better than profit …

We investigate whether a firm's market power within its product market affects management sales forecast behavior. Our … examination of the relation between market power and management sales forecasts is motivated by the notion that sales forecasts … differ from other types of forecasts because sales forecasts provide investors and competitors with a more transparent signal …

This study covers the application of asymmetric accuracy metrics in the daily retail sales prediction problem. The … obtain more accurate sales predictions that meet practitioner expectations …

information flow from the supplier to customers, we find that the frequencies of management earnings and sales forecasts are …

This paper uses firm-level survey data matched with official tax records to estimate the unobserved true sales of … linking unobserved true sales with observable firm-level production characteristics, the authors derive a multiple …-indicators, multiple-causes model predicting unobserved true sales. Comparing predicted true sales with sales reported to the tax office …

and Blu-Ray) sales. Our results contrasting eleven different empirical strategies from econometrics and penalization … retail movie unit sales …

's predictive distributions forecasting sales are very accurate, especially for short horizons and direct sales channels, often …

implemented inside Intel Corporation for sales forecasting. The IAM, which incorporates selected features of parimutuel betting … IAM yields predicted distributions of future sales that are very accurate at short horizons; indeed, more accurate than …

This paper uses firm-level survey data matched with official tax records to estimate the unobserved true sales of … linking unobserved true sales with observable firm-level production characteristics, we derive a multiple-indicators, multiple …-causes model predicting true sales. We find that firms underreport sales to the tax office by 38.6%, but firm-level survey data …