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...

We exploit a 2008 regulatory change in a Canadian province to investigate the association between engagement partner identification (EPI) and audit quality (AQ) and to illustrate the implications of control group design choices on this association. In contrast to prior studies, firms in our...