) we show in a practical manner that models converge to the same results based on real data of analysts forecast consensus …

and magnitude of accruals. Finally, we find a significant market reaction to analysts' cash flow forecast revisions …

forecast properties. The evidence shows that analysts' earnings forecast accuracy is higher and the forecast dispersion is … higher forecast accuracy and less forecast dispersion in the non-Big Five auditor sample but not in the Big Five auditor …

forecast properties. The evidence shows that analysts' earnings forecast accuracy is higher and the forecast dispersion is … higher forecast accuracy and less forecast dispersion in the non-Big Five auditor sample but not in the Big Five auditor …

in private debt contracts. We find greater proximity between the analysts' consensus earnings forecast and the future …

We examine whether corporate social media information affects analysts' forecast accuracy. We use corporate Facebook … examine the impact of such on analyst forecast performance. Using aggregate number of posts and reactions to posts for S&P 500 … firms, we find that analyst forecast errors are unresponsive to corporate social media posts. However, our results show that …

. We also conduct a study on the persistence of forecast accuracy across analysts and across stocks over the 15-year period … analyst forecast values and back-test a range of forecast-driven systematic strategies …