David Godsell

David Godsell

Associate Professor of Accountancy and PwC LLP Faculty Fellow

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4003 Business Instructional Facility

515 Gregory Dr

Champaign, IL 61820

217-300-0844

dgodsell@illinois.edu

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Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Management, Queen's University, 2015
  • M.S., Management, Queen's University, 2010
  • MBA, Memorial University, 2009
  • B.A., Economics, Memorial University, 2007
  • BCom, Honors, Memorial University, 2007

Positions Held

  • Associate Professor of Accountancy, Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024 to present
  • Assistant Professor of Accountancy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017-2024
  • Assistant Professor of Accounting, Virginia Tech, 2015-2017
  • Corporate Tax Auditor, Canada Revenue Agency, 2007-2009

Recent Publications

  • Baik, D., Chen, C., & Godsell, D. (2024). Board gender diversity and investment efficiency: Global evidence from 83 country-level interventions. The Accounting Review, 99 (3), 1-36.  link >
  • Godsell, D., Lel, U., & Miller, D. (2023). U.S. national security and de-globalization. Journal of International Business Studies, 54 (8), 1471-1494.  link >
  • Godsell, D., Jung, B., & Mescall, D. (2023). Investor relations and investment efficiency. Contemporary Accounting Research, 40 1966-1988.  link >
  • Godsell, D., Huang, K., & Lao, B. (2023). Managers' rank and file employee coordination costs and real activities manipulation. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 107.  link >
  • Godsell, D. (2022). Financial reporting consequences of sovereign wealth fund investment. Contemporary Accounting Research, 39 (3), 2090-2129.  link >

Other Publications

Articles

  • Boland, M., & Godsell, D. (2021). Bureaucratic discretion and contracting outcomes. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 88.  link >
  • Boland, M., & Godsell, D. (2020). Local soldier fatalities and war profiteers: New tests of the political cost hypothesis. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 70 (1).  link >
  • Downes, J., Flagmeier, V., & Godsell, D. (2018). Product market effects of IFRS adoption. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, 37 (5), 376-401.  link >
  • Godsell, D., Welker, M., & Zhang, N. (2017). Earnings management during antidumping investigations in Europe: Sample-wide and cross-sectional evidence. Journal of Accounting Research, 55 (2), 407-457.  link >
  • Calluzzo, P., Dong, N., & Godsell, D. (2017). Sovereign wealth fund investments and the U.S. political process. Journal of International Business Studies, 48 (2), 222-243.  link >

Honors and Awards

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Faculty Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2023 to present
  • Best Paper Award, Journal of International Accounting Research Conference, 2024-2024
  • Weldon Powell Memorial Award for Outstanding Research and Teaching, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022-2023
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Excellence in Reviewing Award, AAA International Accounting Section, 2021, 2022
  • Excellence in Reviewing Award, AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
  • Large Scale Research Grant, CPA-Queen’s Centre for Governance, 2013-2014, 2021-2022
  • Outstanding Reviewer Award, Contemporary Accounting Research, 2020-2021

Service

  • Ad Hoc Referee, Journal of Law and Economics, 2023 to present
  • Ad Hoc Referee, The Accounting Review, 2023 to present
  • Ad Hoc Referee, Review of Accounting Studies, 2022 to present
  • Ad Hoc Referee, Management Science, 2020 to present
  • Ad Hoc Referee, Journal of Accounting Research, 2020 to present
  • Ad Hoc Referee, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2018 to present
  • Ad Hoc Referee, Journal of International Business Studies, 2016 to present
  • Editorial Board Member, Contemporary Accounting Research, 2023-2026
  • Committee Member, AAA International Accounting Section Publications Committee, 2022-2025
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of International Accounting Research, 2018-2023
  • Chair, AAA International Accounting Section Research Committee, 2019-2022
  • Track Chair, 2021 AAA Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Mid-Year Meeting, 2020-2021

Teaching Interests

I enjoy teaching financial reporting and financial statement analysis.

Research Interests

My international empirical-archival research examines political determinants of firm outcomes in general and financial reporting outcomes in particular. My research appears in the Journal of Accounting and Economics; the Journal of Accounting Research; the Journal of International Business Studies; The Accounting Review; Accounting, Organizations and Society; and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Current Courses

  • Financial Statement Analysis (ACCY 517) Examines the tools and techniques of financial statement analysis and company valuation from the perspective of investors and creditors; emphasizes theoretical and empirical properties of financial ratios as well as valuation methods used in practice.

Contact

4003 Business Instructional Facility

515 Gregory Dr

Champaign, IL 61820

217-300-0844

dgodsell@illinois.edu

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