Determinants of Earnings Forecast Error, Earnings Forecast Revision and Earnings Forecast Accuracy

• Main Author: Gell, Sebastian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler Verlag, 2012.
• Series: Quantitatives Controlling
• Subjects: Finance.; Finance, general.

Earnings forecasts are ubiquitous in today’s financial markets. They are essential indicators of future firm performance and a starting point for firm valuation. Extremely inaccurate and overoptimistic forecasts during the most recent financial crisis have raised serious doubts regarding the reliabi...

Table of Contents:

• Financial analysts
• Earnings forecast error
• Earnings forecast accuracy
• Earnings forecast revision
• Conservatism
• Forecast effort.