The association between the accuracy of long-run qualitative earnings forecasts by managers and discretionary accounting in the Netherlands
Many earnings forecasts studies are conducted for the Anglo-Saxon countries, but to date very few have focused on continental Europe. This paperexamines whether there is a relationship between discretionary accounting and the accuracy of long-run forecasts of annual earnings voluntarilydisclosed by managers in the directors' report, which is a mandatory chapter of the annual report in the Netherlands. Long-run forecasts mean forecastsmade at least seven months before year-end. First, we discuss the rationale for management's incentive to improve the accuracy of earnings forecastsvoluntarily di... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1997 |
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Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
Schlagwörter: | /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/reduced_inequalities / name=SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27621049 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/bc99d62f-d64a-42ec-a2ca-1b78491db88b |