Innovative Approaches in the Accounting and Audit of the Book Value of Assets: Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The paper deals with the analysis on the innovative approaches in the accounting and audit of the book value of assets. The results of analyses proved that of the book value of assets in the accounting and audit, especially in the context of financial crises, implementation of the new or modified standard of accounting and reporting becomes an important part of the issues. Herewith, financial and management decision, which compare book and market value, trying to predict the future (fair) value of assets or even a company (firm). The main goal of the paper is analysed of the tendency in the scientific literature on the accounting and audit of the book value of assets to identify future research directions. For the analysis, the VOSviewer and Scopus tools were used. This study reviews 714 papers from the Scopus database. The time for analysis was all timeline of the Scopus database. The results showed the growing tendency in publishing the documents in the Scopus database focused on the accounting and audit of the book value of assets issues. It began to increase from 1997 to 1999, from 2007 to 2009, and from 2014 to 2017. Moreover, the focus of investigation moved from general issues to problem of the fair value of assets, implementation of modifying standards of reporting and accounting. In 2018, the number of documents increased by 1225% compared to 1997. It was the year with the biggest number of paper devoted to analysing the innovative approaches in the accounting and audit of the book value of assets. Mostly the innovative approaches in the accounting and audit of the book value of assets were analysed under the subject area as follows: Business, Management and Accounting; Economics, Econometrics and Finance; Social Sciences; Engineering. Besides, the biggest share of the scientists which investigated issues the innovative approaches in the accounting and audit of the book value of assets was from the USA, United Kingdom, Australia and China. In 2019 papers focused on analyses of the innovative approaches in the accounting and audit of the book value of assets were published in journals with high impact factor as follows: Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting Review, International Journal of Accounting, Managerial Finance,Accounting And Business Research. Such results proved that theme on the innovative approaches in the accounting and audit of the book value of assets is actually in the ongoing trends of the modern accounting, finance, management and audit. The findings from VOSviewer identified 6 clusters of the papers which investigated innovative approaches in the accounting and audit of the book value of assets from the different points of views. The first most significant cluster merged the keywords as follows: accounting information, fair value, financial reporting, fair value accounting, firm value, intangible assets, intellectual capital etc. The second biggest cluster merged the keywords as follows: costs, cost accounting, accounting method, assets value, assets valuation, depreciation, cost-benefit analyse, balance sheet etc. The third biggest cluster focused on criminal aspects of value relevance, book value, the book value of equity, equity valuation, earnings, dividend etc. Such tendency allows making a conclusion, financial and management decision, which compare book and market value, trying to predict future (fair) value of assets or even a company (firm) are very close and popular in different issues. Keywords book value, asset value, accounting, financial accounting, audit, innovative approaches.