One of the purposes of internal control in a company is developing appropriate management of risk mitigation, which, if well executed, facilitates research that can be developed through a forensic audit; under this premise documentary and field research was conducted, in order to diagnose the situation and current capacity of the companies providing public services from Villavicencio to attend anytime a forensic audit, which was conducted under the parameters descriptive research, under the quantitative approach, using the survey, interview and assessment associated with the level of risk to collect primary data. With the results it was possible to establish the current status of the companies under study to attend anytime a forensic audit, and identify how internal control tools employed in these companies facilitate the development of forensic audit.