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) find51% 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