The independence of an auditor has not only been viewed as an ethical issue within thernauditing professional bodies like the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC), butrnalso it is the bedrock upon which a successful audit is based. The stakeholders requirernthe auditors to stay true to the main credence of the profession as an independent outsidernthird party to give an opinion on the true and fair view of the financial statementsrnpresented by management.rnThe main purpose of this study is to examine whether extended audit tenures can lead tornthe emergence of threats to auditor independence which will impair the auditorrnindependence. Lack of audit quality and subsequent audit failures result mainly from arnlack of auditor 's independence which is considered to be a consequence of the extendedrnauditor client relationship. In order to investigate the findings; the researcher used arnsample of six audit firms which includes a total of 50 auditors in Addis Ababa. Thernresearcher also used stratified random sampling technique and collected primary datarnthrough questionnaire. The responses gotten were analyzed using a quantitative andrnqualitative approach with the help of spss.rnActually, the results of the findings shows that both extended and short audit tenure hasrnan impact on auditors independence and audit quality when it is considered underrndifferent threats even if the impact is worst in the case of extended audit tenure.