**Corporate Governance and Fraud: Evolution and Considerations Considerations**

**Corporate Governance and Fraud: Evolution and** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.68489

Ana Paula Paulino da Costa Ana Paula Paulino da Costa Additional information is available at the end of the chapter

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.68489

#### **Abstract**

There are many definitions of Corporate Governance, as a structure, as process, as policies, as mechanisms, but despite their differences of focus, they mainly addressed the sustainable economic growth and protection of shareholders and other stakeholder's rights. The purpose here is to present the evolution of the main principles and frameworks as corporate and financial environment changes and set new challenges. Some important scandals that revealed the weaknesses of corporate governance frameworks are described to complement the comprehension of the object of it. It is detached the aspects simulated or ignored and the subsequent enforcement and monitoring response. Discussion about the new challenges, what corporate governance is supposed to provide and what it can promote, closes this chapter.

**Keywords:** corporate governance, corporate fraud, scandals, monitoring control, enforcement
