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The impact of litigation risk on the strategic timing of management earnings forecasts

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  • Andrew B. Jackson
  • Gerry Gallery
  • Maria C. A. Balatbat
  • Steven Cahan

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type="main" xml:id="acfi12065-abs-0001"> This paper examines whether managers strategically time their earnings forecasts (MEFs) as litigation risk increases. We find as litigation risk increases, the propensity to release a delayed forecast until after the market is closed (AMC) or a Friday decreases but not proportionally more for bad news than for good news. How costly this behaviour is to investors is questionable as share price returns do not reveal any under-reaction to strategically timed bad news MEF released AMC. We also find evidence consistent with managers timing their MEFs during a natural no-trading period to better disseminate information.

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  • Andrew B. Jackson & Gerry Gallery & Maria C. A. Balatbat & Steven Cahan, 2015. "The impact of litigation risk on the strategic timing of management earnings forecasts," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 55(2), pages 467-495, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:acctfi:v:55:y:2015:i:2:p:467-495
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    6. Millicent Chang & Andrew B. Jackson & Marvin Wee, 2018. "A review of research on regulation changes in the Asia‐Pacific region," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 58(3), pages 635-667, September.

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