Abstract
This study aims to determine gaps in the literature by reviewing the studies conducted on assurance audit in Turkey. For this purpose, studies on assurance audit are searched and found primarily by screening nation-based “Google Academic”, “ULAKBIM” and “National Dissertation Center” databases. Since there was scarce study, the reasons and the views of accounting academicians on assurance audit are wondered. Therefore, the study has a second aim, namely, to reveal out views of academicians on assurance audit and their opinions about limited number of study in the literature. Content analysis of the literature is based on reviewing title of the study, issue date, number of authors, type of study, analytical techniques used in the study and distribution of subjects regarding the studies found in databases and resultant data is summarized in Microsoft Excel. For analyzing the data derived from the survey form issued to clarify views of academicians, quantitative analysis is performed using JOTFORM online survey and Microsoft Excel.