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We analyze the relevande of losses, accounting information on tax loss carryforwards, and deferred taxes for the prediction of earnings and cash flows up to four years ahead. We use a unique hand-collected panel of German listed firms encompassing detailed information on tax loss carryforwards...
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We analyse the relevance of losses, accounting information on tax loss carryforwards, and deferred taxes for the prediction of earnings and cash flows up to four years ahead. We use a unique hand-collected panel of German listed firms encompassing detailed information on tax loss carryforwards...
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forecast errors and accruals, which we label “managers' accrual-related forecast bias.” We build on extensive research which … between managers' earnings forecast errors and discretionary accruals, but no association between managers' earnings forecast … errors and nondiscretionary accruals. Furthermore, the association between managers' earnings forecast errors and …
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This paper details efforts at developing and estimating a Vector Autoregressive (VAR) econometric model representative of the financial statements of a firm. Although the model can be generalized to represent the financial statements of any firm, this work was carried out as a case study, where...
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This paper examines the extent to which financial signaling affects the analysts' and managers' forecast releases. The … findings give evidence of heterogeneity of analysts' forecast errors between firms with strong financial indicators (high … group). The paper further indicates that managers' forecast releases also depend on the type of the firm and that managers …
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How well do investors distinguish information that already is priced from genuinely novel and exclusive private information? This paper examines whether investors misweight information that already is in stock prices (“redundant information”) in making their trading decisions. I extend the...
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In 1995 Congress passed the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA), which grants public companies a safe harbor from liability for forward-looking statements (FLS). Because investors cannot reasonably assess the legitimacy of forward-looking information for initial public offerings...
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the no-change forecast. Our key finding is that substantial reductions in the mean-squared prediction error (MSPE) of … greater reductions in MSPEs are possible by constructing a pooled forecast that assigns equal weight to five of the most …
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