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MTax curriculum
The 9-month Master of Taxation and Data Analytics (MTax) program from ASU's W. P. Carey School of Business deepens and broadens your knowledge of taxation and opens doors to top hiring firms. A data and analytics emphasis, case-based courses and team assignments accelerate your learning and prepare you for the profession.
MTax course descriptions
Tax Research, Professional Responsibilities, and Property Transactions
Examine the tax consequences of common types of property transactions and enhance your ability to identify tax issues, locate and understand tax authority, and apply the authority to factual situations.
Accounting Analytics I
Examine analytics in the accounting function. Calculate, interpret, and apply descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics in a variety of case settings focusing on auditing, risk management, forensics, and strategic planning decisions and events.
Professional Responsibilities I
A class focused on successfully preparing for the CPA Exam with an emphasis on review, ethics requirements, and testing strategies.
Accounting Analytics II
Addresses the emerging roles of accounting analytics in accounting, auditing and tax contexts. Technological advances have allowed the capture and economic storage of massive accounting and business data and the focus of this class is how to productively gather and apply big data to a variety of accounting, auditing and tax-related contexts. Focuses on understanding the data within major accounting information systems and generating meaningful audit and/or tax analytics from the data. Critical to this is a deep understanding of accounting flows, processes and controls in order to understand and build meaningful audit-centric and/or tax-centric analytics.
Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders
Master common situations in federal corporate taxation, including shareholder taxation. Explore the tax ramifications of corporate formations, operations, distributions to shareholders, liquidations, acquisitions, and reorganizations.
Professional Responsibilities II
A class focused on successfully preparing for the CPA Exam with an emphasis on review, ethics requirements, and testing strategies.
International Taxation
Explore international taxation from a U.S. perspective, including tax treaties, transfer pricing, and inbound and outbound transactions. Explore current tax developments through cases focused on issue identification, research, professional judgment, and communication skills like those encountered in practice.
Taxation of Pass-Through Entities
Develop a working knowledge of partnership income taxation. Topics include partnership taxation, partnership allocations, transactions between partners and partnerships, sales of partnership interests, distributions, and S corporations.
State and Local Taxation
Discover principles of multi-state taxation, including the interaction among various multi-state tax issues and federal and state constitutional constraints. This course covers income tax with an emphasis on corporate tax matters, sales/use/gross receipts/excise taxes, and property taxes.
Professional Responsibilities III
A class focused on successfully preparing for the CPA Exam with an emphasis on review, ethics requirements, and testing strategies.