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Meanwhile, I find that firms are less likely to and less frequently issue management earnings forecasts when their costs are less predictable. These findings suggest that besides their supplementary or confirmatory role for contemporaneously issued management earnings forecasts, management sales forecasts substitute management earnings forecasts when costs are hard to predict. Using several sensitivity analyses, such as an instrumental variables approach, a difference-in-difference test using an industry-wide shock to cost uncertainty, and a simultaneous equation model, I show that my findings are robust to endogeneity concerns. 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These results suggest that firms endeavor to meet strong demand for sales forecasts from information users when their cost patterns are uncertain. Meanwhile, I find that firms are less likely to and less frequently issue management earnings forecasts when their costs are less predictable. These findings suggest that besides their supplementary or confirmatory role for contemporaneously issued management earnings forecasts, management sales forecasts substitute management earnings forecasts when costs are hard to predict. Using several sensitivity analyses, such as an instrumental variables approach, a difference-in-difference test using an industry-wide shock to cost uncertainty, and a simultaneous equation model, I show that my findings are robust to endogeneity concerns. 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