Investigating the Printing and Publishing Situation of Governmental Accounting and Auditing Books in Iran

Subject and Purpose:

 of the Article: The main   purpose of this study is to investigate the publication of governmental accounting and auditing books.

The bibliometric method has been used to analyze the research data. The statistical population includes all books in the field of governmental accounting and auditing in the latest descriptive bibliography of the National Library until July 2020.

Findings showed that out of a total of 265 books, 17 volumes were published before 2002 and the rest after. The most active author in this field is Mr. Nasser Fouladi Nasab. The best-selling book is the work of Mr. Aghvami and Mr. Babajani, and Majal Publishing is the best publisher. 28% of the works are the result of group participation and 72% are the share of individual works. In addition, only 22 books have been revised. The results show that the number of books published in recent years has grown overall, but the situation of editing and revision of government accounting and auditing books is not very favorable.

In this research, for the first time, the situation of publishing books of government accounting and auditing has been studied. The results of this research can be used by writers and publishers.