Rate My Professor Maggie Knight

Maggie Knight is the Chair of the Accounting and Business Intelligence & Analytics Department, Director of the Master of Accounting Program, and an Associate Professor of Accounting at Creighton University's Heider College of Business. She earned her Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) from Creighton University in 2018 and holds CPA and CGMA professional certifications. Before entering academia full-time, Knight accumulated substantial professional experience in finance and accounting leadership. Until August 2016, she served as Chief Financial Officer for the primary and specialty care networks of physicians within CHI Health, overseeing operations for more than 800 providers across 140 locations. She joined CHI Health in 2008 as System Controller, responsible for accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, financial analysis, capital planning, benchmarking, and decision support/cost accounting for the health system. Prior to that, she worked seven years in public accounting, six of them with KPMG, focusing on healthcare clients throughout the Midwest.

Knight's academic research centers on behavioral accounting, with particular emphasis on burnout and alternative work arrangements in public accounting, as well as mission and pedagogy in Jesuit business schools. Key publications include 'The Impact of Distributive Justice Perceptions on Alternative Work Arrangement Participation Intentions in Public Accounting' (2024), 'U.S. research-focused nontraditional doctoral accounting programs: A status update' (2022), 'A review of lecture capture research in business education' (2022), 'The Linder Hypothesis and Trade of Intellectual Property Services' (2021, Journal of Economic Insight), 'Integrating Professionally Oriented Faculty: Views of Professionally Oriented Faculty, Tenure-Track Faculty, and Administrators' (2021), 'Exhaustion and Job Performance in Public Accounting: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction' (2021), and 'A Word of Caution to Students: Public Accountant Perceptions of Alternative Work Arrangements' (2020). She has earned prestigious recognitions such as the Nebraska Society of CPAs Outstanding Accounting Educator Award (2021), Best Paper Awards from the American Accounting Association's Gender Issues and Worklife Balance Section (2021 and 2020), Creighton University IGGY Award (2021), Union Pacific Research Fellowship (2021), Heider Senate Teacher of the Year (2018), and a ranking of 10th internationally for Accounting Education Research in the BYU Accounting Research Rankings. Under her leadership as department chair, Heider College of Business accounting students achieved top national CPA exam performance rankings.