financial forecasting

Description The purpose of this paper is to create an endurance index of housing investor sentiment and use it to forecast housing stock returns. This study performs not only in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting, like many previous studies did, but also a true forecasting by using all lag...

Description This study aims to test the effects of forecast specificity on the asymmetric short-window share market response to management earnings forecasts (MEF). Accounting Research Journal The effects of forecast specificity on the asymmetric short-window share market response to management...

Description The purpose of this study is to examine whether financial analysts mislead investors in recognizing the differential persistence of the three cash flow components of earnings, defined by Dechow et al., in forecasting annual earnings. Accounting Research Journal Do analysts mislead...

Description This paper aims to use Australian analysts’ forecast data to compare the relative accuracy of consensus and the most recent forecast in the month before the earnings announcement. Accounting Research Journal Australian evidence on the accuracy of analysts' expectations: The value of...

Description The purpose of this study is to examine the usefulness of pre-production cash expenditure forecasts issued by Australian mining explorers in their quarterly cash-flow reports. Accounting Research Journal The reliability of mandatory cash expenditure forecasts provided by Australian...

Description The planning outline provided in this guide leads you through a series of questions and issues that you should consider when thinking about your business. Remember that you are an investor in your own business. You are the first person who must have confidence in the validity of your...

Description Financing and asset requirements would probably be higher for a retail business than for a service company or an information system-based venture because the retail location would need physical items such as display equipment, décor related items, furniture, etc. that the other two...

Description A critical component of the venture capital investment process is the preparation of financial projections for the business seeking venture capital financing. These projections normally include a balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement or statement of changes in...

Description Financial forecasting is a planning process by which the company's management positions its firm's future activities related to the expected economic, technical, competitive and social environment. Business plans always have strategies and actions for achieving desired short - term...

Description There are two ways to look at the business plan: by stage of development, and by target reader. Under the stage of development, there are generally two ways to divide the planning style: start-up plans and plans for ongoing businesses. Business Planning and Financial Forecasting A...

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