Margaret Christ
Professor
Margaret H. Christ is the J.M. Tull Chair in Accounting and Director of the J.M. Tull School of Accounting at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and her undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University. Her research focuses on management control systems, incentive compensation, internal audit practices, and the use of data analytics in accounting. She has published in leading journals such as The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting, Organizations and Society. Margaret serves as an editor for The Accounting Review and Accounting Horizons and sits on multiple editorial boards. She has received numerous awards from the American Accounting Association and has contributed to revisions of the COSO Internal Control Integrated Framework. Her teaching emphasizes accounting analytics and data visualization, and she has co-developed award-winning educational cases in collaboration with the EY Academic Resource Center.