Companies making initial public offerings in Greece were obliged to include next year‟s profit in the new issue prospectuses until the regulations changed to voluntary status. This study takes advantage of these two regulatory regimes and compares the accuracy of earnings forecasts under both mandatory and voluntary disclosure environments. Findings indicate behavioural change, as pessimistic e...

Managers often release earnings forecasts in advance of actual earnings announcements. It would appear that managers should at best be indifferent to such release given that the actual earnings will be disclosed at a future date. However, if the manager’s objective is to maximize his firm’s market value and he has control of production decisions, he may be motivated to release an earnings forec...

Managers face a number of incentives to report earnings that meet or exceed the consensus analyst forecast. If a firm’s results of operations are not sufficient to meet the analysts’ expectations for a given period, the manager may 1) use accrual based earnings management techniques or 2) structure actual transactions to achieve the desired financial reporting result. Additionally, the manager ...

the aim of this study is to determine the effect of the income smoothing on the future earnings response coefficient taking into account the effect of the information environment. future earnings response coefficient is used as a measure for evaluation of stock price information content which represents the relationship between current stock returns and future earnings. information environment ...

Early studies examining the effect of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) report a possible chilling effect on the quantity and quality of corporate disclosures. Approved in August 2000 by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Reg FD mandates against selective disclosure of corporate information. At the time of its release, the financial community expressed concern that the regulation w...

Abstract This paper uses the data from Chinese capital market to study relationship between cost stickiness, earnings forecast accuracy and stock price information content. The empirical results show that: (1) Cost stickiness significantly affects response coefficient of prices. Lower improves ability current returns reflect future earnings, which is manifested in higher (FERC). (2) reduces non...