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.
OVERVIEW
- Begins each fall and spring
- Full-time
- Two semesters to graduate
- Learn alongside a cohort of your peers
Curriculum
MAC 8100 - Emerging Technologies (3-day pre-course) (1.5 credits)
MAC 8201 - Taxes and Business Strategy (3 credits)
MAC 8231 - Corporate Taxation (3 credits)
MAC 8217 - Accounting Analytics (3 credits)
MAC 8226 - State and Local Taxation (1.5 credits)
MAC 8239 - Tax Research, Policy & Ethics (1.5 credits)
MAC 8307 - Advanced Business and Technical Writing
MAC 8200 - Leadership for the New Accounting Professional
MAC 8223 - Partnership Tax (3 credits)
MAC 8227 - International Tax (1.5 credits)
MAC 8228 - Tax issues Mergers & Acquisitions Transactions (1.5 credits)
MAC 8207 - Data: Models, Analysis, and Visualization (3 credits)
MAC 8205 - Accounting Systems and Controls (3 credits)
MAC 8341 - Digital Accounting Experience (1.5 credits)
PLEASE NOTE: Curriculum is subject to change.