Macro information environment change and the quality of management earnings forecasts

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 311-330

  Baginski, Stephen P ^a   Hassell, John M ^b   Kimbrough, Michael D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earnings quality; Information environment; Management forecasts

Indexed keywords

EID: 52249112283     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-007-0070-7     Document Type: Article

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