2003
DOI: 10.1506/bxxp-rgtd-h0pm-9xal
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Earnings Management to Avoid Losses and Earnings Decreases: Are Analysts Fooled?*

Abstract: This paper explores whether analyst forecasts impound the earnings management to avoid losses and small earnings decreases documented in Burgstahler and Dichev 1997, whether analysts are able to identify which specific firms engage in such earnings management, and the implications for significant forecast error anomalies at zero earnings and zero forecast earnings. We use data from Zacks Investment Research 1999 and find that analysts anticipate earnings management to avoid small losses and small earnings de… Show more

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“…Anecdotal discussions suggest that if a firm falls short of expectations, its stock price declines as investors reassess the expected future earnings that are impounded in the price. Recently, researchers have documented systematic evidence on the benefits and related managerial incentives of managing earnings toward analyst forecasts (Robb 1998;Degeorge, Patel, and Zeckhauser 1999;Eames and Burgstahler 2003;Bartov, Givoly, and Hayn 2002;Kasznik and McNichols 2002;Matsumoto 2002;Dhaliwal, Gleason, and Mills 2002). The evidence suggests that managers attribute value to meeting forecasts, whether it is real or perceived.…”
Section: Tests Of Earnings Management After the Adoption Datementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Anecdotal discussions suggest that if a firm falls short of expectations, its stock price declines as investors reassess the expected future earnings that are impounded in the price. Recently, researchers have documented systematic evidence on the benefits and related managerial incentives of managing earnings toward analyst forecasts (Robb 1998;Degeorge, Patel, and Zeckhauser 1999;Eames and Burgstahler 2003;Bartov, Givoly, and Hayn 2002;Kasznik and McNichols 2002;Matsumoto 2002;Dhaliwal, Gleason, and Mills 2002). The evidence suggests that managers attribute value to meeting forecasts, whether it is real or perceived.…”
Section: Tests Of Earnings Management After the Adoption Datementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Companies opt for earnings decreasing and reserve higher current potential positive earnings. Burgstahler and Eames (2003) obtain evidence of downward forecast management to achieve zero and small positive earnings surprises easily. Additionally, Bohren and Haug (2006) confirm that firms take into account their concern about visibility.…”
Section: Control Variablesmentioning
confidence: 86%
“…This literature also provides evidence that managerial propensity to avoid negative earnings surprises has increased significantly over time (Brown, 2001;Bartov et. al, 2002;Matsumoto, 2002), although no significant increase has been observed in the tendency to avoid losses or earnings decreases (Burgstahler and Eames, 2003). Brown and Caylor (2003) conduct a temporal analyses of the propensities of managers to achieve three earnings management thresholds and their valuation consequences using quarterly data from 1985-2001.…”
Section: Prior Studiesmentioning
confidence: 99%