Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics - Business
Graduate School
Accounting (Master of Accounting)
HARP - Harper Center for Student Life & Learn
Maggie Knight, DBA, CPA, CGMA
Associate Professor
Associate 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.
Research Focus
Burnout in public accounting Alternative work arrangements in public accounting Mission and pedagogy in Jesuit business schools
Weinberger, A., Austin, R., Knight, M. E. Customer Orientation: Help or Hindrance to Alternative Work Arrangement Initiatives and Turnover Intentions in Accounting? American Accounting Association Spark: Meeting of the Regions (2021). -0001
Knight, M. E., Cooper, M. L., Law, D. W. Exhaustion and Job Performance in Public Accounting: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction. American Accounting Association Joint Conference and Doctoral/Early Scholar Consortium of the Public Interest and Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Sections and the Canadian Alternative Accounts Conference (2021). -0001
Knight, M. E., Taylor, R. M. A Word of Caution to Students: Public Accountant Perceptions of Alternative Work Arrangements. American Accounting Association Annual Meeting (2020). -0001
Knight, M. E., Lux, D. Fighting Fire with Fire: Using Excel Macros to Combat Academic Dishonesty in Excel Projects. American Accounting Association Annual Meeting (2020). -0001
Knight, M. E. Managing Yourself and Others: Burnout and Flexibility in the Accounting Workplace. Association of Government Accountants, Lincoln, NE (2019). -0001
Knight, M. E. Managing Yourself and Others: Burnout and Flexibility in the Accounting Workplace. Creighton National Alumni Board, Omaha, NE (2024). -0001
Knight, M. E. Managing Yourself and Others: Burnout and Flexibility in the Accounting Workplace. Creighton Board of Trustees Academic and Student Affairs & Research Committee, Omaha, NE (2023) -0001
Knight, M. E. Managing Yourself and Others: Burnout and Flexibility in the Accounting Workplace. Healthcare Financial Management Association Womens Conference. Des Moines, IA (2023) -0001
Knight, M. E. Managing Yourself and Others: Burnout and Flexibility in the Accounting Workplace. Nebraska Society of CPAs 1st Annual Women in Accounting Summit, Ashland, NE (2022). -0001
Ling, M. & Knight, M. E. A Review of Lecture Capture Research in Business Education. Missouri Association of Accounting Educators Conference, Lake Ozark, MO (2023) -0001
Cooper, M. L., Knight. M. E., Frazier, M. L., Law, D. L. Conflict management style and exhaustion in public accounting. American Accounting Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2018.
Gustafson, A., Lux, D., Knight, M., Mueller-Fichepain, D., Shick, M., McCarville, M. Catholic social thought at Jesuit and other catholic business schools: Current state of training for students and faculty initial report findings. 24th International Association of Jesuit Business Schools World Forum and the 2018 Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2018.
Knight, M. E., Cooper, M. L., Grayson, K. C., Purcell, T. J., Buller, P. F., Gustafson, A. The Jesuit DBA program: Two years into the cooperative project. 2017 Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education Annual Meeting, Omaha, NE, 2017.
Knight, M. E., Taylor, R. M. The millennial impact on alternative work arrangement (AWA) support and the profile of AWA naysayers in public accounting. American Accounting Association Midwest Region Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2017.
Knight, M. E., Taylor, R. M. A Word of Caution to Students: Public Accountant Perceptions of Alternative Work Arrangements. American Accounting Association Spark Virtual Meeting, 2020.
Knight, M. E., Taylor, R. M. A Word of Caution to Students: Public Accountant Perceptions of Alternative Work Arrangements. American Accounting Association Joint Conference and Doctoral/Early Scholar Consortium of the Public Interest and Gender Issues Worklife Balance Sections, Washington, D.C., 2020 (Conference canceled due to pandemic).
Briggs, K., Knight, M., Mueller-Fichepain, D. The Effect of Income and Intellectual Property Differences on Royalty and Licensing Fee Exports. Missouri Valley Economic Association Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, 2019.
Knight, M. E., Lux, D. Leveraging Excel Macros to Prevent and Detect Excel Project Cheating. American Accounting Association Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting, San Francisco, CA, 2019.
Best Paper Award “Exhaustion and Job Performance in Public Accounting: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction,” 2021 American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section
Creighton University IGGY Award
Best Paper Award “Best Paper Award” from American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section, 2021 American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section
Nebraska Society of CPAs Outstanding Accounting Educator Award Nebraska Society of CPAs Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, 2021 Nebraska Society of CPAs
Union Pacific Research Fellowship, 2021
Creighton University IGGY Award, 2021
Best Paper from an Early Scholar Award “Best Paper from an Early Scholar Award” from American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section for “A Word of Caution to Students: Public Accountant Perceptions of Alternative Work Arrangements,” 2020 American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section
2020 KPMG Best Paper Award “2020 KPMG Best Paper Award” from American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section for “A Word of Caution to Students: Public Accountant Perceptions of Alternative Work Arrangements” American Accounting Association Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section
Ranked 10th Internationally for Accounting Education Research in BYU Accounting Research Rankings
Heider Senate Teacher of the Year Nominee, 2019
Heider Senate Teacher of the Year, 2018
Heider College of Business Graduate Student of the Year, 2018
Heider Senate Teach of the Year Nominee, 2017
Creighton University Rookie of the Year Nominee, 2017
Recognized as Outstanding Faculty Member by Student Athletes, 2017
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Small Research Grant, 2017
American Accounting Association FARS Doctoral Consortium, 2017