The effects of guidance frequency and guidance goal on managerial decisions

We conduct an experiment to examine the effects of guidance frequency (frequent vs. infrequent) and guidance goal (accuracy vs. meet/beat vs. truthful) on managers’ operating decisions. We find that frequent guiders sacrifice total earnings for quarterly earnings predictability irrespective of their...

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Main Authors: Wang, Elaine Ying, Tan, Hun-Tong
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99633
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/17381
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English