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<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">ABSTRACT</heading>Managers play earnings surprise games to avoid negative earnings surprises by managing earnings upward or by managing analysts' earnings expectations downward. We investigate the effectiveness of the financial reporting process at restraining earnings surprise games. Because the annual...
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We investigate the implications of firms’ benchmark-beating patterns with respect to analysts’ quarterly cash flow forecasts for firms’ current capital market valuation and their future performance. We hypothesize that nonnegative earnings surprises are more likely to be supported by real...
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We exploit differences in litigation concerns combined with similarities in reputational concerns across two attest service types (comprehensive annual audits and limited interim reviews) to assess litigation-based and reputation-based theories of assurance quality. We contend that because the...
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