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INTANG/MVAD (or INTANG/TA) equals capitalized intangible assets divided by market value added (or total assets) for firm i for year t; LG(| FE |/TA) the natural log of | FE |/TA the absolute value of earnings minus the mean earnings forecast scaled by total assets for firm i for year t; LG(DISP/TA) is natural log of DISP/TA the standard deviation of analysts earnings forecasts scaled by total assets for firm i for year t; MVAD equals market value equity (calculated using balance date ordinary shares and stock price) minus book value equity which has intangible assets subtracted for firm i for year t; OP/ DEBT is operating cash divided by total liabilities for firm i for year t; LG(MV) is natural log of market value equity for firm i for year t; AGE is the number of years firm i has been listed; EARNSD is the standard deviation of reported earnings of firm i over sample period; LOSS is a dummy variable equal to one for firms with earnings losses for year ¢ and zero otherwise; LEV is total liabilities divided by book value of equity; 6°(RET) equals the variance of stock return rolling calculation over preceding and current years for each year the firm appears in the sample within the sample period 1990-1997; A(PRICE) is equal to stock price at time ¢ minus stock price at time ¢— 1 divided by stock price at time t—1; FOLLOW is the average number of analysts following firm i for year t. Reported are coefficients, f-statistics, and one-tail probability where there is a signed prediction and two-tail probability otherwise: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01). Unreported year and industry dummies are included in the estimation. 2SLS, two stage least squares; OLS, ordinary least squares.  Analyst average fiscal year absolute forecast error for firm i (LG(I FE |/TA)) regressed on capitalized intangible assets divided by underlying intangible assets (INTANG/MVAD) and other factors found to affect analysts’ forecast errors for the pooled sample (1990-1997)

Table 5 INTANG/MVAD (or INTANG/TA) equals capitalized intangible assets divided by market value added (or total assets) for firm i for year t; LG(| FE |/TA) the natural log of | FE |/TA the absolute value of earnings minus the mean earnings forecast scaled by total assets for firm i for year t; LG(DISP/TA) is natural log of DISP/TA the standard deviation of analysts earnings forecasts scaled by total assets for firm i for year t; MVAD equals market value equity (calculated using balance date ordinary shares and stock price) minus book value equity which has intangible assets subtracted for firm i for year t; OP/ DEBT is operating cash divided by total liabilities for firm i for year t; LG(MV) is natural log of market value equity for firm i for year t; AGE is the number of years firm i has been listed; EARNSD is the standard deviation of reported earnings of firm i over sample period; LOSS is a dummy variable equal to one for firms with earnings losses for year ¢ and zero otherwise; LEV is total liabilities divided by book value of equity; 6°(RET) equals the variance of stock return rolling calculation over preceding and current years for each year the firm appears in the sample within the sample period 1990-1997; A(PRICE) is equal to stock price at time ¢ minus stock price at time ¢— 1 divided by stock price at time t—1; FOLLOW is the average number of analysts following firm i for year t. Reported are coefficients, f-statistics, and one-tail probability where there is a signed prediction and two-tail probability otherwise: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01). Unreported year and industry dummies are included in the estimation. 2SLS, two stage least squares; OLS, ordinary least squares. Analyst average fiscal year absolute forecast error for firm i (LG(I FE |/TA)) regressed on capitalized intangible assets divided by underlying intangible assets (INTANG/MVAD) and other factors found to affect analysts’ forecast errors for the pooled sample (1990-1997)