Identifying and conceptualizing the effective factors on professional turnover intention in Audit profession

Professional turnover is a primary concern for the audit profession, as reported by many recent professional reports. Also, based on the received information from Securities & Exchange Organization (SEO) by March 2019, average retention period for auditors who worked in its trusted firms was 574 days which is too low in comparison with global statistics. In this paper, we used multi grounded theory (MGT) to configure a comprehensive model for explaining the influencing factors on professional turnover intention among Iranian auditors. Analysis of the data from the systematic review of related studies which were available on Journal’s online database and interviews with 18 experts who were selected through a combination of purposive and snowball sampling methods led to development a model in four groups; conditions (individual factors, Occupational factors, Intra-organizational link, Characteristics of Audit Institutions, Organizational climate, Occupational / Organizational attitude, Audit fee and Progress in career path), Context (factors in Macro level and at Profession level), Actions/interactions and Consequences.