The role of audit and internal control in efficient corporate governance

Corporate governance is the process of supervision and control intended to ensure that the company's management acts in accordance with the interests of shareholders. The recent corporate scandals such as Enron, WorldCom or Parmalat shows that this process is not working efficiently and infomiation disclosed by companies are unreliable. The system of corporate governance contains many elements. Some of them are internal control, internal audit and external audit. The aim of the paper is to review the role of these three elements in enhancing the efficiency of corporate governance