Alternatively, firms can choose to disclose management forecasts before or after end of accounting period (i.e., forecast timing). Partitioning management forecast samples issuing in 1994 to 2003 by forecast timing, Anilowski et al. (2007) find 51% of management forecasts are disclosed before end of accounting period while 49% of them are issued after end of accounting period. Pownall et al. (1993) show number of days between forecast date and end of accounting period of quarterly forecasts is longer than that of annual forecasts.On average, number of days for quarterly forecasts is 71 days while that of annual forecasts is 201 days