Management forecast quality and capital investment decisions

Accounting Review

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 331-365

  Goodman, Theodore H ^a   Neamtiu, Monica ^b   Shroff, Nemit ^c   White, Hal D ^d  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Capital expenditure; Forecasting ability; Investment; Management earnings forecasts; Managerial ability; Voluntary disclosure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894311813     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2308/accr-50575     Document Type: Article

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