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The main objective of the study is to state the effect on job performance of job stress in the scope of accountants and other accounting staff(accountant trainee and assistant accounting staff). In this context, a questionnaire prepared was applied to 103 accountant and other accounting staff ( 32 accountant and 71 other accounting staff) who is located in the province of Izmir between the date of October 2014 and March 2015. Both groups stated that, extremism (in terms of work load, competition and responsibility), role conflict, role ambiguity and uncertanity (in terms of experience, knowledge, communication and working time), affect advanced negative to job performance by increasing job stress. Accountant group considers that, ‘‘work load, competition, excessive responsibility, lack of experience and knowledge’’ affect more negative to job performance by increasing job stress. Whereas, other accounting staff considers that ‘‘rol conflict and rol ambiguity’’ affect more negative to job performance by increasing job stress. It is observed that, at accountants have A and B type personality traits, whereas other accounting staff have more common B type personality traits. Both groups reported that, this profession has high stress level. In both two groups, work release level due to stress is higher than the mid-level. As a result, it can be emphasized that in this study, accounting staff have high stress perception in their professional lives, managers can improve their performance by attaching importance to this issue.

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