In this study, we use a survey instrument to obtain perspectives from over 700 auditors about present-day audit workloads and the relationship between audit workloads, audit quality, and job satisfaction. Our findings indicate that auditors are working, on average, five hours per week above the...

I exploit a novel office-level dataset on employee job satisfaction from Glassdoor.com and a natural experiment based on local precipitation during the auditing time period to examine the effect of audit employee job satisfaction on audit quality. I find that a unit increase in job satisfaction...

We examine the association between job satisfaction in audit offices and office-level audit quality. Using employee self-assessments of satisfaction with their work at Big 4 audit offices between 2008 and 2016, we find that job satisfaction is positively associated with audit quality. We show...