Underpromise and Overdeliver

Management forecasts are an essential source of information in the capital allocation process of investors.

The high information content ascribed to them and the resulting usefulness for decision-making should contribute to an improvement in capital market efficiency. However, various incentives impair the undistorted transfer of prospective management information to the capital market. The result is conservative predictions.

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