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Curriculum
Master of Business Taxation (MBT) students complete 30 graduate semester credits and maintain a 3.0 grade point average during the program.
Required Courses – General
2 credits
- Tax Policy (2 credits)
Required Courses – Taxation
10 credits
- Tax Accounting Methods and Periods (4 credits)
- Tax Research (4 credits)
- Corporate Tax (2 credits)
Elective Courses – Taxation
Choose 18 credits (all 2 credits each)
- Compensation & Benefits
- Consolidated Tax Returns
- Estate and Gift Tax (Wealth Transfer)
- ASC 740 Computations and Analysis
- International Tax I
- International Tax II
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Negotiation Techniques in Taxation
- Partnerships
- Property Transactions
- S Corporations
- State and Local Taxation
- Transfer Pricing
Fall Term
Fall full term (September - December) - 16 WEEKS
- MBT 5200 Tax Accounting Methods and Periods (4 credits)
- MBT 5220 Tax Research (4 credits)
Fall A term (September - October) - 8 WEEKS
- MBT 5230 Corporate Tax (2 credits)
- MBT 5380 International Tax I (2 credits)
Fall B term (last week of October - December) - 8 WEEKS
- MBT 5346 ASC 740 Computations and Analysis (2 credits)
- MBT 5370 Property Transactions (2 credits)
- MBT 5500 Business, Govt & Tax Policy (2 credits)
Spring Term
Spring full term (follows the U of M spring schedule; one week spring break)
- MBT 5220 Tax Research (4 credits)
Spring A term (follows the U of M spring term schedule; begins after Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)
- MBT 5346 ASC 740 Computations and Analysis
Spring A term (January - February) - 8 WEEKS
- MBT 5230 Corporate Tax (2 credits)
- MBT 5360 State & Local Tax (2 credits)
- MBT 5381 International Tax II (2 credits)
- MBT 5500 Tax Policy (2 credits)
Spring B term (mid-April - mid-June) - 8 WEEKS
- MBT 5323 Mergers & Acquisitions (2 credits)
- MBT 5340 Taxation of Partnerships I (2 credits)
- MBT 5350 Estates & Gifts (Wealth Transfer) (2 credits)
- MBT 5363 Compensation & Benefits (2 credits)
Summer Term
Full term (mid-June - mid-August) - 8 WEEKS
- MBT 5226 Negotiation Techniques in Taxation (2 credits)
- MBT 5333 Consolidated Tax Returns (2 credits)
- MBT 5335 S Corporations (2 credits)
- MBT 5382 Transfer Pricing (2 credits)