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- Title
An Exploratory Study of the Effect on Forecast Accuracy of Using Different Geographic Segment Data Sources.
- Authors
Nichols, Dave; Tunnell, Larry; Waldrup, Bob
- Abstract
The specific research question this study investigates is whether or not model-based earnings forecasts utilizing COMPUSTAT's country specific geographic segment data produce more accurate earnings forecasts than model-based forecasts utilizing data from actual geographic segment footnotes. This study compares the accuracy of earnings forecasts from models using the geographic segment information in actual geographic segment footnotes to the accuracy of earnings forecasts from models using the geographic segment information in the COMPUSTAT business segment tape. Evidence collected in this study indicates that geographic segment data provided in the COMPUSTAT business segment data base appears to make it possible to more accurately predict sales than does the geographic segment data provided in the same companies' actual geographic segment footnote.
- Subjects
BUSINESS forecasting; ECONOMIC forecasting
- Publication
Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting, 1996, Vol 7, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0954-1314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-646X.1996.tb00068.x