What makes conference calls useful? The information content of managers' presentations and analysts' discussion sessions

Accounting Review

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1383-1414

  Matsumoto, Dawn ^a   Pronk, Maarten ^b   Roelofsen, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conference calls; Financial analysts; Information content; Information environment; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052475912     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-10034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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