Executives have every incentive to match or beat forecasts as the market punishes those that fail to do so. That, in turn, hurts the value of the share options which are the best hope of making the executives rich. A recent academic paper looks in detail at this process (The Valuation Premium for a String of Positive Earnings Surprises: The Role of Earnings Manipulation by Jenny Chu, Patricia Dechow, Kai Wai Hui and Annika Yu Wang).
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