Partners
David A. Deeter
James F. Frazier Jr.
Roger W. Lusby III
Ruth A. Bartlett
D. Shawn Fowler
Jeffery R. Miller
Rhonda I. Striplin
Christopher E. Etheridge
Karen C. Thurman
Terri E. Lawson
Andrew C. Burnett
Wayne D. Reid
W. Seth McDaniel
William A. Godshall
Jason M. Meadows
Jeremy L. Sperring
Linda J. Schaeffer
Chris Kyriakakis
Sean Lager
Michael P. Warren

Principals
Managers
Directors and Officers

 
  WILLIAM A. GODSHALL
Partner

bill.godshall@frazierdeeter.com

Experience
Mr. Godshall joined Frazier & Deeter in 2005, after leaving the Public Company Accounting and Oversight Board (PCAOB) where he served as Inspection Leader. He brings more than 17 years of public accounting experience to the assurance department. His areas of specialty include working with large and middle-market companies in the public and private sectors.

Bill joined our firm as a principal with experience working in the energy, manufacturing, financial services, and services industries. In addition, Bill has extensive experience with complex accounting topics such as derivatives, leases, business combinations and impairment of long-lived assets.

His career started with a Big Six firm in 1990, where he worked until 2002, when he left to join the Capital Markets Risk and Accounting Advisory group at Big Four firm. While in this group, Bill specialized in assisting his clients with complex accounting and reporting issues, primarily in the energy and manufacturing industries.

Bill joined the PCAOB in January 2004, prior to the start of the first full-scope inspections of registered public accounting firms. At the PCAOB, he helped to develop the training program for full-scope inspections and the inspection methodology for audits of internal control over financial reporting. He also wrote the inspection guidance for derivative accounting and auditing areas that is in place today. Other responsibilities were to serve as issue consultant to inspection teams for complex accounting and auditing issues. As such, Bill led and participated in the inspections of several local firms throughout the Southeast.

On January 1, 2007, Bill was admitted as an audit partner and head of the Quality Control function for Frazier & Deeter’s assurance services department. In addition, Bill leads the firm’s Accounting and Risk Advisory Services practice which specializes in assisting large and mid-size public-company clients with complex accounting and financial reporting issues.


Education
Bachelor of Science in Accounting, University of New Orleans.

Professional and Civic Organizations
Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants
Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants – Peer Review Committee
Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants – Assurance Services Section Leadership Team, Incoming 2009 Chair
Louisiana Society of Certified Public Accountants
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
PKF Public Companies Task Force
Active parental supporter of Boy Scouts of America
St. Jude’s Men’s Club - Member