This is the Online Appendix for: Management of reported and forecast EPS, investor responses, and research implications (Management Science, Forthcoming). We provide here additional results relating to four issues discussed in the main paper: a) robustness analysis regarding prediction P3.2,...

We document substantial management of reported and forecast EPS for analyst-followed firms, with the level of management increasing with share price. Mainly, managers smooth the volatility of reported EPS by using accruals to offset cash flow shocks. Smoother EPS is easier to forecast, resulting...

We investigate the joint hypothesis that a) tax expense contains information about core profitability that is incremental to reported earnings and b) that information is reflected in stock prices with a delay. We find that seasonally-differenced quarterly tax expense, our proxy for tax expense...

Ball, Kothari, and Nikolaev (2011) make two major claims in their recent working paper titled “On estimating conditional conservatism.” While they agree that the effect documented in Patatoukas and Thomas (2011) biases the conditional conservatism estimate proposed in Basu (1997), they claim...

While levels of actual and consensus forecast earnings per share (EPS) vary with scale (measured typically by share price), magnitudes of the difference do not vary with scale. That is, forecast errors within a certain range (e.g., plus/minus 5 cents per share) are equally likely for both...

Financial economists view the tax benefits of leasing as a complex function of the tax deductions and income associated with rentals, depreciation, and interest attributed to lessors and lessees facing different tax rates. We offer two ways to simplify that complexity using the concept of...