Effect of foreign GAAP earnings and Form 20-F reconciliations on revisions of analysts' forecasts

International Journal of Accounting

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-93

  Hora, Judith A ^a   Tondkar, Rasoul H ^b   McEwen, Ruth Ann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysts' revisions of forecasts; Foreign earnings announcements; Form 20 F reconciliation; U.S. GAAP

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037350207     PISSN: 10944060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7063(02)00214-5     Document Type: Article

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