The use of earnings forecasts in stock recommendations: Are accurate analysts more consistent?† Andreas Simon Orfalea College of Business California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, CA (email: ansimon@calpoly.edu) Asher Curtis David Eccles School of Business The University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT (email: asher.curtis@business.utah.edu) This draft: September, 2010. Forthcoming, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. ABSTRACT: We examine how analysts’ conflicting incentives
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more general policies. We also systematically map the product characteristics to the value of information sharing. Key words : supply chain, information sharing, information distortion, decision deviation, time series, forecast accuracy, empirical forecasting, ARIMA process. 1.
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In the aviation industry, forecasts of air travel demand are important specially for the two biggest aircraft manufacturers (Boeing and Airbus) for a wide variety of economic decisions, including research and development, airplane design such as size and specification, and production planning. “Boeing’s air travel demand forecast is developed by constructing and matching top-down and bottom-up analyses. Bottom-up analysis involves forecasts of traffic between and within individual countries, based
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❖ To acquire real experience in solving research problems and apply appropriate statistical data analysis. ❖ To enable students to integrate the theory learned at UiTM with practice. ❖ To cultivate cooperative networking between industries and UiTM 1.3 INDUSTRIAL TRAINING ATTACHMENT I had undergone my industrial training at Socio Economic and Environmental Research Institute (SERI) at Penang from 3rd January 2011 until 31st March 2011. I was directly supervised by Dr Chan
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Barilla SpA (A) Case Analysis Teona Omiadze, Nino Tskhvariashvili, Mari Zaridze School of Economics, Business and Administration of the University of Georgia Instructor: Natia Zedgenidze Tbilisi 2011 Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………….3 Introduction………………………………………………………………………..4 Problem Description……………………………………………………………….5 External and Internal Resistances to JITD program……………………………….9 Solution…………………………………………………………………………....11 Recommendations to the
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PART 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Sport Obermeyer must maintain and for that matter increase our hold on the skiwear industry. For that objective to be met it has been determined that changes must occur on a couple of fronts. First an improved forecasting technique must be implemented. Having hot items stock out causing potential customers to purchase competitors product is unacceptable. Taking each buying committee members forecast into account to create an average demand forecast has created a good starting
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Executive Summary Barilla SpA, as one of Italy’s refined pasta supplier, they have come a long way in developing a renowned brand for its pasta and produce. Their supply chain and manufacturing process is heavily vertical integrated. However, recently, they are facing a number of difficult challenges and obstacles in order to meet the demand needs from its customer. There are a number of constraints in the operation process that has limited the amount of information- forecast data being
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200 cars sold at the 8% interest rate. If we use the suggestion of the VP of Marketing and use the 7% interest rate, the dealership could forecast sales of 358 cars. This, in conjunction with a R2 value of 0.997738, is why I would suggest this forecasting model. The 7% interest rate could be affected by the downturn in the economy. Other factors could be the supply and demand of credit and the federal fund rate. If less cars are sold at the higher interest rate, the dealership will affected negatively
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manufacturing equipment in order to remain competitive in an evolving industry. Adeline Koh must also decide to purchase new more efficient packaging Information, Evidence and Assumptions Analysis Recommendations Star River should request equity from their owners, New Era Partners, to offset the SGM 54.6 million capital expenditures forecasted for DVD manufacturing equipment over the next two years. Financial forecasting and analysis suggests Star River will be unable to repay this amount
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