Financial analysts provide information in their research reports and thereby help forming
expectations of a firm's future business performance. Thus it is essential to recognize
analysts who provide the most precise forecasts and the accounting literature identifies
characteristics that help finding the most accurate analysts. Tanja Klettke detects new
relationships and identifies two new determinants of earnings forecast accuracy. These new
determinants are an analyst's general forecast effort and the number of supplementary
forecasts. Within two comprehensive empirical investigations she proves these measures' power
to explain accuracy differences. Tanja Klettke's research helps investors and researchers to
identify more accurate earnings forecasts.
