Maggie Knight, DBA, CPA, CGMA

Associate Professor

Associate Professor

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Heider College of Business
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
 

Department

Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics

Position

Associate Professor

Presentations

  • 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.

Awards

  • 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