This study examines properties of analysts' cash flow forecasts and compares them to those exhibited by analysts' earnings forecasts. Our results indicate that analysts' cash flow forecasts are less accurate than analysts' earnings forecasts and improve at a slower rate during the forecast...

Call, Chen and Tong (2013) claim that the conclusion we reached in Givoly, Hayn and Lehavy (2009) that analysts' forecasts of cash flow from operations are unsophisticated (in the sense that they can be replicated by a naïve extension of analysts' own earnings forecasts) is wrong. They conclude...

Call, Chen and Tong (2013) claim that the conclusion we reached in Givoly, Hayn and Lehavy (2009) that analysts' forecasts of cash flow from operations are unsophisticated (in the sense that they can be replicated by a naïve extension of analysts' own earnings forecasts) is wrong. They conclude...