With the development of market relations in the economy, the growth in the volume of economic activity, the complexity of the organizational structure of production, the expansion of economic ties and the intensification of the digitalization of the economy, the challenges facing control are becoming more complicated. Further development of control requires research and development of theoretical and methodological foundations of the symbiosis of internal and external control, which would ensure reliability and stability in socio-economic relations. The works of Russian and foreign authors present developments on certain types of control, but insufficient attention is paid to issues of their coordination and interaction. The issues of internal and external control have not yet received the proper level of development, which necessitates the development of a single concept, the purpose of which is to harmonize the relations of all subjects of the socio-economic system involved in the process, and satisfy their