This paper studied the relationship between the management characteristics and the earnings forecast disclosure willingness within Chinese listed companies. Management characteristics were being defined and summarized as four aspects: structure characteristics, incentive characteristics, background characteristics and external governance mechanism. The Logistic regression model was applied to c...

This study investigates the reliability of management earnings forecasts with reference to these two ingredients: verifiability and neutrality. Specifically, we examine the biasedness (or accuracy) of management earnings forecasts and company specific characteristics that can be associated with accuracy. Based on sample of 102 IPO prospectuses published for admission on NYSE Euronext Paris from...

Previous studies show that analysts’ compensation is not linked to earnings forecast accuracy. We evidence however that analysts have incentives to issue accurate forecasts. We show that brokerage houses reward their best forecasters by assigning them to large, mature firms. Covering such firms increases the potential for future compensation as these firms generate a great deal of investment ba...

This paper studies whether managers use investor information they learn from the stock market when making forward-looking disclosures. Using annual management earnings forecasts from 1996 to 2010, I find that the association between forecast revisions and stock price changes over the revision periods is stronger when there is more informed trading. Further, the effect of investor information on...

This paper aims to investigate the effect of audit committee ethnicity, as part diverse cultures in Malaysia, on analysts’ forecast accuracy. In addition, this study investigates further interactions between unique Malaysia and earnings management determine whether ethnicity still plays a role management. Based 391 observations firms followed by analysts from year 2012 2014, our result indicate...

I examine the impact of management cash flow forecasts on investors and analysts. The news in management cash flow forecasts is priced beyond total earnings news. Analysts revise earnings forecasts more for the news in these forecasts than for the news in accruals. I further find that the market’s higher pricing of cash flow forecast news is greater for firms 1) with bad earnings news, 2) in fi...

Using the unique data of analysts' site visits to Chinese listed companies, we examine whether and how analysts' site visits help improve their forecast performance. We find that the forecast accuracy of analysts improves after they visit the target firms and this improvement still holds after controlling for the concurrent change in the forecast accuracy of analysts who do not conduct site vis...

Prior studies evaluate the relative importance of the sources of value that financial analysts bring to the market based on the price impact of forecast revisions over the event time. We find that management earnings forecasts influence the timing and precision of analyst forecasts. More importantly, evidence suggests that prior studies’ finding of weaker (stronger) stock-price responses to for...