The final set of findings in table 4 relates to value relevance. Regressions of price on net income and equity book value for IAS and NIAS firms reveal that the R~ value for IAS firms is insignificantly larger than that for NIAS firms, 28.03% versus 27.18%, in the preadoption period. In the postadoption period, this value is significantly larger for IAS firms. These findings indicate tiiat the higher value relevance for IAS firms as evidenced by the price regressions in the postadoption period is not attributable to higher value relevance in the preadoption period. The i?2 value from a regression of net income on returns for good (bad) news IAS firms, 2.24% (4.64%), is