This study aims to examine the effect of financial difficulties, management integrity, professionalism, and the dependence of external users of financial statements on audit risk. The researcher uses a sample of auditors working at public accounting firms in the Central Java and Yogyakarta regions. selected based on purposive sampling method with criteria, namely, auditors who have a minimum of a bachelor's degree and have a working period of more than one year. Hypothesis testing in this study uses multiple linear regression. The results show that financial difficulties have a positive effect on audit risk, while management integrity, professionalism and dependency of external users of financial statements are proven to have no effect on audit risk.