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Purpose: This study investigates the behavior of sell-side analysts covering firms that are about to experience breaks in strings of consecutive quarterly earnings increases.Design/methodology/approach: We estimate the likelihood of analysts predicting a break using logit regressions for 1.8M...
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increase as the likelihood that management is withholding value-relevant negative information increases, causing managers to … preceding sales contractions (bad news) and the difference between the forecast disclosure frequency preceding sales expansions …
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for past forecast errors …
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' forecasts after the adoption of IFRS 3 and IAS 38 for Asian firms. In addition, we investigate whether the forecast relevance of … intangibles and analysts' earnings forecast errors. However, a further analysis indicates that the capitalization of intangibles … following the rules of IFRS 3 and IAS 38 significantly improves analysts' earnings forecast accuracy for firms with higher level …
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We examine the association between goodwill impairment charges and analysts' forecast accuracy and dispersion. We … charges is also negatively associated with forecast accuracy and positively associated with forecast dispersion. However, two … impairments on analyst forecast dispersion …
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We provide evidence of a non-intuitive link between equity analysts and bank loans. We hypothesize and find that the precision of the private information in sell-side equity analysts' earnings forecasts is associated with price and non-price characteristics of private debt. Using a measure of...
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likely to miss their earnings forecast at the end of the fiscal year and revise their forecasts downward to meet their … earnings forecasts for the period, suggesting that forecast management through discretionary forecasting produces less credible … thus overprice them at the forecast announcement …
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Crowdsourcing — when a task normally performed by employees is outsourced to a large network of people via an open call — is making inroads into the investment research industry. We shed light on this new phenomenon by examining the value of crowdsourced earnings forecasts. Our sample...
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Crowdsourcing — when a task normally performed by employees is outsourced to a large network of people via an open call — is making inroads into the investment research industry. We shed light on this new phenomenon by examining the value of crowdsourced earnings forecasts. Our sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957645
improvements in earnings forecast accuracy than firms in weak enforcement countries but the opposite happens for cash flow … significant 12-month ahead hedge returns after IFRS adoption, which corroborates the detected forecast accuracy improvements …
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