New Determinants of Analysts’ Earnings Forecast Accuracy

• Main Author: Klettke, Tanja (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2014.
• Series: Quantitatives Controlling
• Subjects: Finance.; Finance, general.

Financial analysts provide information in their research reports and thereby help forming expectations of a firm’s future business performance. Thus, it is essential to recognize analysts who provide the most precise forecasts, and the accounting literature identifies characteristics that help findi...

Table of Contents:

• Analysts’ general forecast effort as forecast accuracy determinant
• Impact of forecast effort on analysts’ career prospects
• Analysts’ issuance of supplementary forecasts as forecast accuracy determinant.