Abstract :
Auditor has a great role in providing assurance about the fairness of
financial statement. In order to provide the assurance to users of financial statement,
the auditor must to maintain their performance. Some behavioral accounting
researches that examine the performance of auditor have been done but still showed
inconsistent result. Based on this fact the purpose of this study is to examine the
influence of work stress, motivation, reward, partners, and locus of control to
performance of auditor.
The population in this study were auditors who work in Public Accounting
Firm in Special Region of Yogyakarta. Data were collected by distributing
questionaires to 65 auditors work in 5 Public Accounting Firms, but only 46
questinaires were returned. The sample in this study use convenience sampling
method. The data were analyzed using multiple regression analysis with SPSS 16.
The result of this study found that work stress, motivation, reward, partners,
and locus of control have influence to performance of auditor.
Keyword: work stress, motivation, reward, partners, locus of control, performance of
auditor.