Another look at GAAP versus the Street: An empirical assessment of measurement error bias

Review of Accounting Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 271-303

  Cohen, Daniel A ^a   Hann, Rebecca N ^b   Ogneva, Maria ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analyst forecasts; Capital markets; Earnings response coefficients; GAAP earnings; Measurement error; Pro forma earnings; Street earnings

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249869545     PISSN: 13806653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11142-007-9029-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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