Internal auditing plays an important part in the management of corporations, but it has also proved necessary in the more general framework of public interest entities, especially listed entities, given the importance of their activity in society. The different activities that internal auditors perform lead to the creation of added value in the entity in which they operate. In Romania, this activity is relatively recent and it involves certain organising and exercising particularities. The internal auditor profession has globally faced the same challenges all the other professions face in regards to the digitalization of the economy.