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Guidance (money)


Definition: [crh] It is increasingly important for firms to meet or exceed analysts' consensus earnings forecasts. Often Management will give guidance or hints of the earnings per share prospects over the next qDefinition: uarter or next year to try to direct the consensus to what is achievable. For example, it is possible that the consensus is well above Management's internal forecasts. Management will try to guide thDefinition: e consensus downwards so that when the earnings are released the negative surprise is minimized. Under Regulation FD, Management needs to be very careful to provide guidance information to all sharehDefinition: olders -- not just a select group of analysts. This is often achieved in investor presentations (that are often webcast) or conference calls (where anyone is allowed to dial in).







Kevorkian, Jack (sh)




born May 26, 1928, Pontiac, Mich., U.S.

U.S. pathologist, advocate and practitioner of physician-assisted suicide.

He expressed early interest in experimentation on death-row inmates who had been rendered unconscious rather than executed; his ideas negatively affected his medical career. In the 1980s he devised his "suicide machine," with which a person could commit suicide by merely pushing a button, and in the 1990s he assisted in the deaths of over 100 terminally ill persons. His actions provoked furious controversy and led to legislation and referenda; he was tried, convicted twice, and jailed, and his medical license was revoked. In 1998 he was convicted of murder for administering a lethal injection himself and was sentenced to 10-25 years in jail.