Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/303783 
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2022
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[Journal:] Cogent Economics & Finance [ISSN:] 2332-2039 [Volume:] 10 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 2118680 [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1-13
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Taylor & Francis, Abingdon
Abstract: 
If a company's corporate performance forecasting bias is not zero and it continues to over- or under-predict actual performance, capital investments and employment will deviate from their expected levels. Therefore, forecast bias is a very important issue for a company's management. However, few empirical studies exist on corporate performance forecasting bias in start-up companies, given the data limitations. Most existing studies have primarily analysed listed companies, and few studies particularly targeted small, medium and micro or start-up companies. Therefore, this study uses data from start-up companies that received loans from the Japan Finance Corporation (JFC) to investigate how new start-up companies' performance forecasting bias is affected by their attributes and past performance forecasts. The results of the analysis showed that company size, profitability and optimism of past performance forecasts had a positive impact on performance forecasting bias. The results of this research contribute to the elaboration of corporate performance forecasts and are expected to be useful for corporate management when formulating management strategies and engaging in resource allocation, stakeholder decision making and policymaking.
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start-up
performance forecasting
bias
SMEs
Japanese companies
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