CURRICULUM

The Villanova Master of Business Taxation with Data Analytics program enhances undergraduate accounting and non-accounting business backgrounds by providing coursework in complementary areas including finance, big data, ethics, and advanced writing and e-business. Courses cover a wide variety of relevant, career-advancing topics including:

• The pervasive impact of taxation on business operations and planning
• Corporate taxation and partnership taxation
  
• Advanced tax topics including tax research, policy and ethics, state and local taxation, international taxation, and merger and acquisition transactions
  
• Financial market issues, such as derivative financial instruments and corporate restructuring
• Ethics and professional standards
  
• Emerging tax technologies
  
• The impact of e-business on the business value chain

Our courses were carefully designed with guidance from VSB’s Accounting Advisory Council, a group of dedicated professionals from prominent public accounting, consulting firms and industry. Council members help ensure that our course offerings are up-to-date, relevant, and thought-provoking.

The MBT program, when paired with the appropriate undergraduate course work, may assist students in meeting the 150-hour CPA requirement that is now effective in most states. Students should research state-specific requirements prior to applying for the exam.