Maggie Knight, DBA, CPA, CGMA

Department

• Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics

Position

• Associate Professor

• Assistant Professor

Maggie Knight is currently the Chair of the Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics department, Director of the Master of Accounting Program, and an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Heider College of Business. She earned her doctorate at Creighton University in 2018, and has an interest in behavioral accounting research, particularly burnout and alternative work arrangements in public accounting. Up until August 2016, she served as the chief financial officer for the primary and specialty care networks of physicians in CHI Health, serving over 800 providers and 140 locations. Maggie originally joined CHI Health in 2008 as the System Controller, where she oversaw accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, financial analysis, capital planning, benchmarking, and decision support/cost accounting for the health system. Prior to her time with CHI Health, Maggie spent seven years in public accounting (six of those years with KPMG), where she served healthcare clients throughout the Midwest.

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Presentations

Research and Scholarship Interests

• Burnout in public accounting
  Alternative work arrangements in public accounting
  Mission and pedagogy in Jesuit business schools
   

• Best Paper Award, American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section, 2022
• Creighton University IGGY Award, 2022
• Best Paper Award, American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section, 2021
• Nebraska Society of CPAs Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, Nebraska Society of CPAs , 2021
• Union Pacific Research Fellowship, 2021, 2021
• Creighton University IGGY Award, 2021, 2021
• Best Paper from an Early Scholar Award, American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section, 2021
• 2020 KPMG Best Paper Award, American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section , 2021
• Ranked 10th Internationally for Accounting Education Research in BYU Accounting Research Rankings, 2021
• Heider Senate Teacher of the Year Nominee, 2019, 2019
• Heider Senate Teacher of the Year, 2018, 2018
• Heider College of Business Graduate Student of the Year, 2018, 2018
• Heider Senate Teach of the Year Nominee, 2017, 2017
• Creighton University Rookie of the Year Nominee, 2017, 2017
• Recognized as Outstanding Faculty Member by Student Athletes, 2017, 2017
• Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Small Research Grant, 2017, 2017
• American Accounting Association FARS Doctoral Consortium, 2017, 2017