• 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

• 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

• 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 >

• 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

• 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

I enjoy teaching financial reporting and financial statement analysis.

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.

• 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.