对我国IPO公司盈利预测信息披露的思考

本文对中国资本市场中盈利预测信息披露问题进行研究,分析中国IPO公司盈利预测信息披露方面存在的问题,同时对如何提高IPO公司自愿披露盈利预测信息提出建议.     

证券分析师行为的价值相关性文献综述

本文对证券分析师的两大行为（盈利预测及其修正、股票推荐）价值相关性研究文献做了综述,即关注分析师的行为是否对股价产生影响。之后,对文章整体做出了总结和评价。     

亏损上市公司会计盈余价值相关性实证研究

会计盈余具备价值相关性的根本原因在于其预测能力,但对于亏损公司来说,为负值的会计盈余对未来会计盈余的预测能力明显是非常弱的,因此亏损公司会计盈余价值相关性与盈利公司有着很大的差异。本文对1998至2003年度的5705个研究样本中亏损公司会计盈余价值相关性的特性进行了实证分析,发现亏损公司会计盈余价值相关性要明显弱于盈利公司,同时也发现净资产变量的价值相关性同样偏弱。而决定亏损公司股票价格的主要因素则在于亏损公司发生卖壳行为的可能性。     

分析师对创新相关信息的关注能提高预测准确性吗？

本文通过对2012―2020年分析师发布的研究报告进行文本分析，提取其中的创新相关信息含量，探究分析师的创新相关信息关注对于提高其盈利预测准确性的价值。研究发现，分析师研究报告中创新相关信息的含量与盈利预测准确性正相关，说明分析师对创新相关信息的关注有助于提高其盈利预测质量；特别是在公司创新活动强度较大、盈余质量较差、信息不对称程度较高的情况下，分析师对创新相关信息的关注和利用对于提高其盈利预测准确性的作用更强。本文丰富了关于分析师盈利预测和非财务信息价值的研究，为分析师的信息关注和利用提供了一定的启示。     

国内外管理者盈利预测自愿披露动机研究综述

随着国内资本市场的发展,上市公司管理层盈利预测披露引起了会计学界更多的关注。本文主要回顾国外学者对管理者盈利预测自愿披露的经济动机,并针对我国已有学者的研究,基于我国资本市场特殊制度背景提供相应的研究建议。     

R&D支出信息披露的价值相关性研究

研究开发(R&D)支出的信息披露有助于投资者了解企业R&D的投入水平和技术实力,并据此预测企业未来的盈利能力和发展潜力,有利于投资者判断公司的价值。对我国新无形资产准则实施以来的研发支出信息披露的现状进行分析的基础上,本文对研发支出及其信息披露的价值相关性进行了检验,研究发现,股票价格对资本化研发支出和费用化研发支出存在选择性吸收,研发支出信息披露质量对股票价格有显著的影响,提高研发信息披露质量有利于提高会计信息的价值相关性。     

创业板IPO低门槛还缺什么？

日前,证监会正式发布了修订后的《首次公开发行股票并在创业板上市管理办法》。与原来的创业板IPO制度相比,创业板新版IPO制度的最大亮点就是大幅降低IPO公司门槛。不仅创业板的覆盖面不再局限于原来的九大行业,而且将上市条件降至“最近一年盈利,最近一年营业收入不少于五千万元”,取消了对IPO公司盈利持续增长的要求。     

管理会计思维下的财务组织模式与盈利预测准确度研究北大核心

一、引言 近年来我国资本市场快速发展并逐渐走向成熟,企业管理层财务盈利预测的准确度越来越受到投资人的关注。早期的企业管理者对财务盈利信息重视程度不足,但随着企业财务组织模式的规范化及财务管理水平的提高,管理层财务盈利预测信息发挥着更大的作用。企业管理层盈利预测信息的准确度不仅关系到投资者的切身利益,而且对于企业本身的发展及我国资本市场的发展都具有十分重要的现实意义。     

IPO公司盈余管理行为选择及不同市场间的差异

本文主要研究了我国证券市场IPO公司进行IPO时应计和真实盈余管理行为选择及不同市场间盈余管理行为的差异。研究结果表明,IPO公司在IPO事件中会运用应计和真实两种盈余管理行为;显著的应计盈余管理行为主要出现在IPO当年,显著的真实盈余管理行为主要出现在IPO之后一年;在IPO当年,创业板IPO公司应计盈余管理行为显著强于同期主板/中小板IPO公司应计盈余管理行为;在IPO之后一年,创业板IPO公司真实盈余管理行为显著强于同期主板/中小板IPO公司真实盈余管理行为。本文研究可以为市场监管机构履行的IPO公司监管行为提供重要的参考。     

一周盈利预测概览

盈利预测调高的股票机构关注榜分析师评级及盈利预测1)上表中的盈利预测数据由今日投资财经资讯有限公司(www.investoday.com.cn)对国内70多家券商研究所1800余名分析师的相关盈利预测数据进行整理加工后提供。2)综合08EPSe:反映了研究机构对相关股票2008年每股盈利的综合预期,     

The association between management earnings forecasts, earnings management, and stock market valuation: Evidence from French IPOs

This study investigates managers' motivations to engage in earnings management through purposeful interventions in the setting of discretionary accruals, in the context of initial public offerings (IPOs) in France. Firms issuing forecasts in their prospectuses are expected to differ from nonforecasters in the level of earnings management during the year following the public offering. Within the context of contracting theory, four research questions are addressed. First, are IPO firms issuing forecasts more inclined to manage earnings 1 year after an IPO compared to nonforecasting firms? Second, is a forecasting firm's level of earnings management conditioned by earnings-forecast deviation? Third, is earnings management by IPO forecasting firms affected by contractual and governance environments? Fourth, how do investors see through earnings management following IPO earnings forecasts, i.e., how do stock market participants value earnings components (i.e., nondiscretionary and discretionary accruals)? Our findings document that in the year following an IPO, the magnitude of earnings management is much higher for forecasters than for nonforecasters. Results also show that a firm's accrual behavior is affected by earnings-forecast deviation, but the relationship is moderated by contractual and governance constraints. Finally, it would appear that French investors do not adequately readjust the relationship between reported earnings and a firm's market value for the year in which earnings are subject to manipulations.     

Management earnings forecasts and IPO performance: evidence of a regime change

Companies undertaking initial public offerings (IPOs) in Greece were obliged to include next-year profit forecast in their prospectuses, until the regulation changed in 2001 to voluntary forecasting. Drawing evidence from IPOs issued in the period 1993–2015, this is the first study to investigate the effect of disclosure regime on management earnings forecasts and IPO long-term performance. The findings show mainly positive forecast errors (forecasts are lower than actual earnings) and higher long-term returns during the mandatory period, suggesting that the mandatory disclosure requirement causes issuers to systematically bias profit forecasts downwards as they opt for the safety of accounting conservatism. The mandatory disclosure requirement artificially improves IPO share performance. Overall, our results show that mandatory disclosure of earnings forecasts can impede capital market efficiency once it goes beyond historical financial information to involve compulsory projections of future performance.     

Lockup and Voluntary Earnings Forecast Disclosure in IPOs

We examine the relation between lockup length and voluntary earnings forecast disclosures for IPOs in Singapore. Unlike firms in the United States, companies in Singapore are allowed to provide earnings forecasts in their IPO prospectuses. We find that forecasters are more likely to accept longer lockup periods, so that the lockup expires after the first post-IPO earnings announcement. Our study also shows that because the lockup agreement removes personal incentives to issue aggressive forecasts, IPO firms tend to issue conservative forecasts. Overall, our results suggest that the lockup mechanism adds credibility to the earnings forecast given in the IPO prospectus.     

Regulations,earnings management,and post-IPO performance: The Chinese evidence

In this study, we examine whether government regulatory initiatives in China involving IPO by SOEs may have contributed to opportunistic behaviors by the issuer. We focus on two sets of IPO regulations issued between January 1, 1996 and February 11, 1999: pricing regulations, which stipulate that IPO prices be a function of accounting performance, and penalty regulations, which penalize IPO firms for overly optimistic forecasts. We find that IPO firms that report better pricing-period accounting performance have larger declines in post-IPO profitability, lower first-day stock returns and worse long-run post-IPO stock performance. Furthermore, IPO firms that make overoptimistic forecasts also have lower first-day returns and worse post-IPO stock performance. Using non-core earnings as the proxy for earnings management, we document some evidence that IPO firms that report higher pricing-period accounting performance have engaged in more income-increasing earnings management. Hence, pricing regulations may have induced IPO firms to inflate pricing-period earnings and affect the post-IPO performance negatively. On the other hand, penalty regulations have deterred IPO firms from making overoptimistic earnings forecast and therefore have a positive impact on the behavior of IPO firms.     

Analysts Earnings Forecasts and the Roles of Earnings and Book Value in Equity Valuation

This study examines the effect of the degree of association between current earnings and expected future earnings on the relative importance of earnings and book value for explaining equity price. Consensus analysts forecasts of one-year-ahead earnings are used to proxy for expected future earnings and are compared to reported current earnings to measure the degree of the association. We find that the value-relevance of current earnings negatively correlates with the extent to which consensus analysts forecasts deviate from current earnings. We also find that the incremental explanatory power of book value for equity price positively correlates with this measure. These results remain robust after controlling for factors known to be affecting the value-relevance of earnings such as negative earnings and the earnings-to-book ratio. Our results also show that this analysts' forecast-based measure of `earnings persistence' dominates historical earnings variance in explaining cross-sectional variations in the value-relevance of earnings and book value.     

Conflicts of Interest and Research Quality of Affiliated Analysts in the German Universal Banking System: Evidence from IPO Underwriting

The quality of equity research by financial analysts is a prerequisite for an efficient capital market. This study investigates the quality of earnings forecasts and stock recommendations for initial public offerings (IPOs) in Germany. The empirical study includes 12,605 earnings forecasts and 6,209 stock recommendations of individual analysts for the time period from 1997 to 2004. The focus of this study is on analysing the potential conflicts of interest that arise when the analyst is affiliated with the underwriter of an IPO. In a universal banking system these conflicts of interest are usually more pronounced and therefore interesting to investigate. The empirical findings for the German financial market suggest that earnings forecasts and stock recommendations of the analysts belonging to the lead-underwriter are on average inaccurate and biased, indicating some conflicts of interest. Moreover, the stock recommendations of the analysts that are affiliated with the lead-underwriter are often too optimistic resulting in a significant long-run underperformance for the investor. In contrast, unaffiliated analysts provide better earnings forecasts and stock recommendations that result in a superior performance for the investor.     

The impact of the CSRC Regulation No. 12-1996 on the credibility of Chinese IPO earnings forecasts

This study examines whether the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (the CSRC) Regulation No. 12-1996, Announcement of Some Rules on the Issuance of Shares, may enhance the credibility of management earnings forecasts in Chinese IPO prospectuses. Using a sample of 858 IPO earnings forecasts over the period 1991–2005, we find that earnings forecasts have been less optimistic and more accurate after the regulation was promulgated on December 26, 1996. Overall, our findings suggest that the CSRC Regulation No. 12-1996 can improve the reliability of Chinese IPO earnings forecasts.     

Forecasts in IPO Prospectuses: The Effect of Corporate Governance on Earnings Management

Prior research suggests that managers may use earnings management to meet voluntary earnings forecasts. We document the extent of earnings management undertaken within Canadian Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and study the extent to which companies with better corporate governance systems are less likely to use earnings management to achieve their earnings forecasts. In addition, we test other factors that differentiate forecasting from non‐forecasting firms, and assess the impact of forecasting and corporate governance on future cash flow prediction. We find that firms with better corporate governance are less likely to include a voluntary earnings forecast in their IPO prospectus. In addition, we find that while IPO firms use accruals management to meet forecasts; the informativeness of the discretionary accruals depends on whether or not the firm would have missed its forecast without the use of discretionary accruals.     

IPO Underpricing, Firm Quality, and Analyst Forecasts

We find that IPO underpricing is positively related to post-IPO growth in sales and EBITDA, but is not significantly related to growth in earnings. Our evidence suggests that accrual reversals or earnings management may cause this inconsistency. We interpret the growth rates of sales and EBITDA as measures of firm quality, and conclude that our evidence supports the notion that IPO firms with greater underpricing are of better quality. Our tests on analysts' earnings forecast errors show that analysts are less positively biased in their earnings forecasts for IPO firms that have greater underpricing.     

Managing News Coverage around Initial Public Offerings

We examine opportunistic behavior of initial public offering (IPO) firms in Taiwan where they are required to disclose their own earnings forecasts and are unrestricted in releasing news around the offerings. We find that prior to the offerings, IPO firms tend to report higher earnings, disclose inflated earnings forecasts, and manage more good news. News management, however, emerges as the most predominant factor in aftermarket stock prices. In particular, IPO firms have a strong preference for releasing good news related to strategy/policy that may simply provide a vision of a firm's future. Furthermore, the news releases are often forward-looking when they are positive about the firms but tend to be realized when they are negative. IPO firms also tend to engage in more window dressing activities before a larger sale of IPO shares from existing shareholders or a larger decline in insiders' holdings. Our analysis shows that managerial optimism cannot fully account for their behavior .