This study was conducted to explore the benefits and challenges of conducting environmental audits for businesses in Vietnam. By qualitative research methods such as: synthesis method, recurrent regression method, on the basis of researching relevant documents. Research results show that, besides the great benefits that environmental auditing brings, businesses in Vietnam also face many challenges when performing environmental audits, such as: awareness of managers; financial resources; legal environment; pressure from stakeholders; and lack of incentive mechanisms. Based on the results of the study, a number of recommendations were made to stakeholders to encourage businesses to proactively approach environmental auditing to improve their environmental performance. become more sustainable.