# Professor Tensie Whelan explains how quarterly earnings reporting can drive bad decision-making by firms

1 Faculty News December 21, 2018 ![AFP logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033413.jpg?itok=zZaeBEKo)>

Excerpt from [AFP](https://www.france24.com/en/20181221-us-quarterly-earnings-requirement-debate) -- "'If you look at the scandals, at Wells Fargo, at Volkswagen, underneath they were trying to make their quarterly numbers in unrealistic ways and they were being pressured to do so by analyst expectations,' Whelan said."

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