This study examines the association between firms' intangible assets and properties of the information contained in analysts' earnings forecasts. We hypothesize that analysts will supplement firms' financial information by placing greater relative emphasis on their own private (or idiosyncratic)...

This paper examines how the reporting model for a firm's operating assets affects analyst forecast accuracy. We contrast UK and US investment property firms having real estate as their primary operating asset, exploiting that UK (US) firms report these assets at fair value (historical cost). We...

This paper examines how analysts incorporate other comprehensive income (OCI) and its components into their earnings forecasts. We first document that analysts’ one-year-ahead earnings forecasts are associated with OCI and OCI components having predictive ability; this suggests analysts (at...

Equity analysts' earnings forecasts exclude dirty surplus income items, otherwise known as other comprehensive income (OCI). However, OCI affects firm value on a dollar-for-dollar basis and can enhance investors' understanding of the value and risk of firms' equity capital. Focusing on financial...

We estimate the effect of information and ability spillovers on sell-side analysts' quarterly EPS forecast accuracy. Using a model that relates mean peer group ability along with the analyst's own ability to the analyst's forecast accuracy, we find that spillovers from peer analysts are large,...