Do managers manage earnings to 'just meet or beat' analyst forecasts?. Evidence from Australia

This paper examines whether managers manage earnings to ‘just meet or beat’ analyst forecasts in Australia. Previous Australian studies on benchmark-beating have focused on loss avoidance and small earnings increases as benchmarks [Coulton, J., Taylor, S., & Taylor, S. (2005). Is ‘benchmark beat...

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Main Authors: Habib, A., Hossain, Mahmud
Format: Journal Article
Published: Pergamon 2008
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7742