Margaret H Christ

Margaret H. Christ is the J. M. Tull Chair in Accounting in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on accounting innovation, including data analytics and other accounting technologies, and how they impact organizational risk, management control systems, and employee behavior. She has served as an editor for The Accounting Review, The Journal of Management Accounting Research, and Accounting Horizons and serves on several editorial boards. Dr. Christ...See more

Margaret H. Christ is the J. M. Tull Chair in Accounting in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on accounting innovation, including data analytics and other accounting technologies, and how they impact organizational risk, management control systems, and employee behavior. She has served as an editor for The Accounting Review, The Journal of Management Accounting Research, and Accounting Horizons and serves on several editorial boards. Dr. Christ teaches accounting analytics using a case-based curriculum that focuses on data analytics, visualization, and automation and their uses in a variety of accounting contexts. She also works with the Ernst and Young Academic Resource Center to develop and disseminate educational materials on the analytics mindset. Her teaching cases have won several awards from the AAA and Institute of Management Accounting, including the 2020 Innovation in Accounting Education Award. See less