The present article presents the results on an empiric study on the role and utility of the financial audit in Romania.

The statistic population is formed from three groups namely the financial auditors, financial managers of the audited firms and the users of the audited accounting information. The results of the questionnaire have been analysed by the help of Kruskal Wallis Test, which has shown that for every statement the differences between the three groups are significant. Next the results have been interpreted globally.

This way has been demonstrated the hypothesis according to which there are differences between perspectives and expectances between the financial auditors, financial managers of the audited firms and the users of the audited accounting information in Romania regarding the role and utility of the financial audit.

At the end of the study we have proposed solutions as to getting closer the expectances of the three groups concerning the role and utility of the financial audit