The next finding in table 4 relates to timely loss recognition. It indicates that the LNEG coefficient, 0.3094, is significantly larger for IAS firms than for NIAS firms. This result indicates that IAS firms recognize losses more frequently even in the preadoption period. Thus, differences in accounting quality as reflected in our timely loss recognition metric in the postadoption period could be attributable to differences in economic characteristics between die two groups of firms.