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For example, blockchain technology will record that you bought something with 1 bitcoin. However, accountants can’t see whether it’s a car or even that you categorized your assets correctly. Paying 1 bitcoin for a business car has different tax implications than sending a friend 1 convert csv to quickbooks bitcoin for their birthday. Blockchain technology has the potential to replace the 500-year-old double-entry accounting system. Blockchain distributed ledger technology would popularize the triple-entry accounting system.

The impact of blockchain technology on audit

He has experience across many sectors includinghealthcare, manufacturing, government and trading enterprises. This means that it’ll also save you and your bookkeeper tons of time while also making it easier to audit your own financial records. Blockchain technology will reduce the need to follow paper trails as the blockchain would be enough to prove many parts of a traditional audit. Blockchain’s immutable nature comes from the fact that once a public consensus validates a transaction into the blockchain, it’s virtually impossible to alter or delete the transaction.

Blockchain is not yet a mainstream accounting topic, and most of the current literature is normative. The four most commonly discussed areas of blockchain include the changing role of accountants; new challenges for auditors; opportunities and challenges of blockchain technology application; and the regulation of cryptoassets. While blockchain will likely be disruptive to accounting and auditing, there will still be a need for these roles. Our aim with this paper was to define the key topics and trends, past, present and future, that concern researchers in blockchain for accounting. Our analysis systematically identified these topics by analysing 153 relevant papers.

  1. Reconciliation of accounting data will not be fully automated through blockchain technology as auditors’ professional expertise and experience is required to assess the accuracy of complex accounting transactions.
  2. A more fundamental area of future research is the role of financial intermediaries and how their role might change.
  3. This step also helped us validate that the papers and topics identified by the LDA analysis were among the most cited.
  4. In a double-entry accounting system, you record a debit and a credit of the same amount at the same time.
  5. For example, well-developed IT competencies may become a prerequisite for the accounting profession, at least in the interim period where firms are prepared to face the changes brought about by integrating blockchain (Uwizeyemungu et al., 2020; McGuigan and Ghio, 2019).

International Journal of Accounting Information Systems

During an audit, an accounting professional can easily confirm that a transaction happened, but the transaction details aren’t recorded. Digital technology has long influenced accounting, but most digital technology has involved replacing analog tools with similar digital counterparts. However, blockchain, a relatively new technology, is poised to change how accounting is done on a more fundamental level. Here are some facts about the blockchain ecosystem and how it will influence accounting in 2021 and beyond. Deloitte celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2020, and audit has undergone multiple sea changes in those years.

Blockchain in accounting research: current trends and emerging topics

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From this, the authors analysed and critiqued the current and future research trends in the four most predominant topics of research in blockchain for accounting. Moreover, Kokina et al. (2017) note that the scalability of blockchain is an issue from a technical perspective, as blockchain is computationally intensive and requires a lot of energy. This raises sustainability questions and may not be an issue that gets resolved until renewable energy accounts for most of our energy production (Coyne and McMickle, 2017). Three further risks are often raised, each surrounding changing business processes (Canelón et al., 2019; Coyne and McMickle, 2017; Kokina et al., 2017).

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For auditors, this offers the potential for a transition from a periodical or annual exercise to a continuous matter, one that can now encompass both parties to a transaction simultaneously. Auditing requires the confirmation of transactions and balances on firms’ accounting ledgers at the end of the reporting period due to time-lags, reconciliations, and accounting entries. Although the middle man slows down transactions and adds fees for their services, they’re not all how to sell preferred stock bad.

Although “new skills for teams” began to attract attention in 2019, papers on this topic still only account for a small portion of the sample. Interesting, even over such a short period, interest in some topics is already waning, e.g. “FinTech in banking”, “cryptocurrencies and cryptoassets”, and “blockchain and taxation”. With this in mind, and given the overwhelming interest in just a handful of topics, we focused the rest of our analysis on the top four topics. Importantly, while technologies provide unparalleled benefits in the audit process, they do not stand alone in the transformation of the audit.

CPA.com, the AICPA’s technology and business subsidiary, put out an accounting technology version of the Gartner Hype Cycle with blockchain having nearly completed a precipitous fall from the height of inflated expectations into the trough of disillusionment. This effectively means that Person A has a copy of all of their information as does Person B, and as does the next person. In a decentralized environment, all participants have access to the same information and users can then choose to share it or not.

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