This paper examines properties of analysts' cash flow forecasts and compares these properties with those exhibited by analysts' earnings forecasts. Our results indicate that analysts' cash flow forecasts are of a considerable lower quality than their earnings forecasts. They are less accurate...

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...

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...