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Accounting, Organizations and Society is an academic journal that focuses on the relationship between accounting and both human behaviour and organizations' structures, processes, social and political environments. It is consistently ranked as one of the top academic accounting journals.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, Accounting, Organizations and Society's 2012 impact factor was 1.867, making it the 4th-ranked accounting journal and 10th-ranked business or finance journal by impact factor, and it is also one of the journals used by the Financial Times to compile its business school research rank. According to a 2006 meta-analysis of studies of accounting journals, Accounting, Organizations and Society is one of the five accounting journals to be consistently ranked as a top accounting journals.

Accounting, Organizations and Society was founded in 1975 by Anthony Hopwood, an accounting researcher who was influential in stimulating research on the role of accounting in organizations and society; Hopwood continued to take an active role as editor after founding the journal. It current editor-in-chief is Christopher Chapman from Imperial College London, and its editors include Robert J. Bloomfield from Cornell University and Peter Miller from the London School of Economics.