This work is aimed at analyzing creative accounting practices in organizations. The problem lies in the realization of creative accounting practices in order to manipulate the accounting information of organizations and present a distorted image of reality for their own benefit or that of third parties. Likewise, the design used was qualitative descriptive documentary, with a sample of 20 articles and research papers selected from a list of 849 results found in specialized academic databases. Among the conclusions of this research, it was determined that creative accounting practices in organizations are more recurrent in certain areas of accounting, which leads to a manipulation of financial information that makes it possible to show an image that differs of the reality in the companies for what it is necessary to use strategies that allow to diminish said practices in the accounting of the organizations.