The aim of this thesis is to come to think of new ways of legitimacy and the need to verify or control all elements of social life such as technology, production, policy, environment, education, the process of working, or divisions like hospitals, military and fire department. The thesis will be focused on the problem why and how it happens that society feels more and more the need to has a control over all aspect of our life. To understand this new phenomena, three approaches will be taken into account. Those approaches are the Foucauldian concept of 'governmentality' (after Michel Foucault), Michael Power’s account of the 'audit society', and Beck's concept of 'reflexive modernization' and 'risk society'. Finally, there will be examined the history of an audit in the Czech Republic and compared the conception of verification and trust in time before and after the fall of Communism.