Guidance Frequency and Guidance Properties: The Effect of Reputation-Building and Learning-by-Doing

Different firms issue earnings guidance at dramatically different rates. We suggest that frequent guiders more likely represent a type of firm that is attempting to develop a reputation for enhanced disclosures through their guidance issuances. Furthermore, the desire to build a reputation and the o...

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Main Authors: BHOJRAJ, Sanjeev, LIBBY, Robert, YANG, Holly I.
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soa_research-21632018-01-31T01:00:52Z Guidance Frequency and Guidance Properties: The Effect of Reputation-Building and Learning-by-Doing BHOJRAJ, Sanjeev LIBBY, Robert YANG, Holly I. Different firms issue earnings guidance at dramatically different rates. We suggest that frequent guiders more likely represent a type of firm that is attempting to develop a reputation for enhanced disclosures through their guidance issuances. Furthermore, the desire to build a reputation and the opportunities to learn provided by issuing more frequent guidance should translate into frequent guiders providing higher quality guidance than occasional guiders. We examine our hypotheses in three stages. First, we find that guidance frequency is positively correlated with variables associated with reputation with capital market participants and reputation in product and labor markets. Second, our cross-sectional analysis shows that frequent guiders provide guidance that is more accurate and specific, timelier, and less optimistically biased. Third, controlling for overall time trends, we find that firms display improvements over time in their guidance properties. Overall, our results are consistent with the reputation-building and learning-by-doing arguments. 2012-04-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1164 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2163/viewcontent/GuidanceFrequencyProperties_Reputation_2012_wp.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School Of Accountancy eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University management forecasts earnings guidance guidance frequency learning Accounting Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics
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Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics
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earnings guidance
guidance frequency
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Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics
BHOJRAJ, Sanjeev
LIBBY, Robert
YANG, Holly I.
Guidance Frequency and Guidance Properties: The Effect of Reputation-Building and Learning-by-Doing
description Different firms issue earnings guidance at dramatically different rates. We suggest that frequent guiders more likely represent a type of firm that is attempting to develop a reputation for enhanced disclosures through their guidance issuances. Furthermore, the desire to build a reputation and the opportunities to learn provided by issuing more frequent guidance should translate into frequent guiders providing higher quality guidance than occasional guiders. We examine our hypotheses in three stages. First, we find that guidance frequency is positively correlated with variables associated with reputation with capital market participants and reputation in product and labor markets. Second, our cross-sectional analysis shows that frequent guiders provide guidance that is more accurate and specific, timelier, and less optimistically biased. Third, controlling for overall time trends, we find that firms display improvements over time in their guidance properties. Overall, our results are consistent with the reputation-building and learning-by-doing arguments.
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author BHOJRAJ, Sanjeev
LIBBY, Robert
YANG, Holly I.
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title Guidance Frequency and Guidance Properties: The Effect of Reputation-Building and Learning-by-Doing
title_short Guidance Frequency and Guidance Properties: The Effect of Reputation-Building and Learning-by-Doing
title_full Guidance Frequency and Guidance Properties: The Effect of Reputation-Building and Learning-by-Doing
title_fullStr Guidance Frequency and Guidance Properties: The Effect of Reputation-Building and Learning-by-Doing
title_full_unstemmed Guidance Frequency and Guidance Properties: The Effect of Reputation-Building and Learning-by-Doing
title_sort guidance frequency and guidance properties: the effect of reputation-building and learning-by-doing
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2012
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1164
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