An empirical analysis of analyst's cash flow forecasts

Journal of Accounting and Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-100

  DeFond, Mark L ^a   Hung, Mingyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst's forecast; Cash flow; Earnings' usefulness

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037376435     PISSN: 01654101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-4101(02)00098-8     Document Type: Article

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