Back to basics: Forecasting the revenues of internet firms

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 6, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 305-329

  Trueman, Brett ^a   Franco Wong, M H ^a   Zhang, Xiao Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst forecasts; Forecasting; Internet; Revenues; Web traffic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001197204     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1011623111051     Document Type: Article

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