ACCOUNTG 601
Taxation and Global Management Decisions
Scott D. Dyreng
Description from DukeHub
Offers a general framework for thinking about how tax rules affect business decisions. The framework aids in understanding the effects of taxes on business decisions, and devising effective tax planning strategies. Specific applications of the framework covered in the course include: tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and LBOs; tax arbitrage; compensation policy (for example, stock options, stock appreciation rights, deferred compensation, fringe benefits); taxation of competing organizational forms (for example, limited partnerships and pass-through entities); taxation of investments; and international tax planning strategies. This course is for Daytime MBA and Accelerated Daytime MBA students.
Skills
- financedepartment: ACCOUNTG
AI-resilient: 1 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "decisions"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- No: Small, in-person format
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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