Master of Science in Taxation, Business Law, Consulting & Business Management

The business game is played using a business simulator. Groups of students are responsible for running a business in real time. All major business functions are covered. Students will make decisions to maximize the profitability of the business.

• CV writing, recruitment interview techniques for the search for an internship, professional project management, team management and meeting management.
• Negotiation techniques, transactional analysis and NLP, public speaking and stage fright management, management and leadership techniques (Praditus).
• Skills assessment, coaching, digitization of the CV and job search techniques at national and international level, preparation for the defence of the applied research thesis.

Presentation of the jobs in the sector by professionals.

The objective is to acquire key skills in terms of budget management and reporting. The focus will be on budget architecture, with the implementation of summary documents, project management control and its link with budget management, and the creation and steering of performance indicators.

The objective of this module is to learn how to draw up a business plan: Designing a costed project for the creation or development of a company.

Several steps are covered: feasibility study, market targeting, opportunities and risks, strengths and weaknesses, communication, financing plan and profitability.

This seminar focuses on a negotiation in a national and international context.

In particular, it will account for the impact of culture on an international negotiation. The national negotiation will focus on the sales process through role playing.

Perfect English language comprehension and communication skills in a wider context than just business English. Students are required to take the TOEIC test.

This module aims to deepen students’ skills in IT to meet the needs of companies in terms of budgetary or commercial monitoring, project management, personnel management and communication: Excel, Word, Powerpoint, teamwork tools, business software.

It aims to be efficient with office automation tools, identify and correct errors quickly, customize existing tools or create your own tools.

Break-even point and how to calculate it.

Budget management techniques, activity management and dashboards.

Analysis and use of management control, costing methods, analysis centre methods, fixed costs allocation, marginal costing, partial costing.

The seminar covers the auditing of accounts as well as audit procedures, tests, methods and tools. Introduction to the legal audit, fundamentals and how to conduct an audit, assessment of internal control, specific checks and summary reports.

Procedures for analysis, control of tangible assets, management statements

Mastery of the accounting procedure; consolidation of accounts; allocation of results; reduction of capital; valuation of securities; incorporation of companies; increase in capital; convergence of PCG with IFRS standards.

Financial analysis.

Modern diagnostic tools.

Restatements to correct errors.

Tools for financial diagnostics: profitability analysis, solvency and financial structure of the company.

Investment policy. The financial structure of the company and financial policies.

Presentation of IFRS, US GAAP.

Organization of the accounting framework, the conceptual framework of standards, presenting financial statements under IFRS/US GAAP.

Measurement and recognition of financial instruments.

Definition of business law. The concept of contract.

The different types of obligation: obligation of means and obligation of result.

The concept of legal personality, the functioning of private and public limited companies and general partnerships (SARL, SA, SNC).

Criteria for choosing a business structure.

The role and powers of the supervisory and management bodies.

The principles and applications of corporate taxation. Tax optimization of a group.

International taxation. VAT: principles and mechanisms.

Special VAT regimes. The territoriality of VAT: the rules of territorial taxation, the deliveries of movable goods, the supply of services. The VAT due: The basis of VAT and how to calculate it.

Investment projects: selection criteria and real options approach.

Financing methods: quasi-equity, bond financing, negotiable debt securities, initial public offering, venture capital. Explanatory theories of financing choice.

Treasury and management of centralized flows.

CV writing, recruitment interview techniques for the search for an internship, professional project management, team management and meeting management.

Negotiation techniques, transactional analysis and NLP, speaking and stage fright management, management techniques and leadership.

Skills assessment, coaching, digitization of the CV and job search techniques at national and international level, preparation for the defence of the applied research thesis.

Software (excel, word, VBA, professional software).

Presentation of the jobs in the sector by professionals.

This course covers the company’s strategic approach in order to understand and anticipate its long-term development. Perform a comprehensive diagnostic of the company and its environment, assessing its ability to cope with and adapt to change, analyze and understand the structural issues involved in implementing a strategic plan; understand an organization’s identity and analyze the components of a company’s culture.

This general course covers accounting fundamentals and studies the different steps in depth: mobilization of receivables; bank reconciliations; inventory entries.

Intermediate management balances; cash flow statements; writing and analysis of tax returns.

This course covers the specifics of US GAAP. Readings and analysis based on case studies. 

This seminar aims to teach students how to structure and transmit a message to communicate effectively. It also covers good listening practices, interview preparations and how to conduct meetings. 

The aim of this course is to acquire key knowledge in budget management and reporting. The focus will be on structuring budgets, making use of summary documents, project controls as they relate to budget management and the creation and steering of performance indicators.

This course provides a practical approach to the legal structures of companies. The aim is clear: to know how to choose the appropriate company, to set up the company and the legal secretariat, to master the legal, fiscal and social aspects of the creation and operation of the company.

In particular, the liberalisation of the joint-stock company (SAS) by the economic modernisation law (LME), offers many advantages that must be seized. The objective of this course is also to understand the interests of the company, and the choice of the legal structure via the study of the principal arrangements (holding, LBO, SCI).

Whatever the method of financing (capital increase, loan, APE, self-financing, etc.), investment operations entail numerous legal constraints that must be covered by appropriate tools (shareholders’ agreements, guarantee clauses, etc.).

This course provides a practical understanding of contract law – both the general theory and the special regimes. The drafting of the GTC and the usefulness of distribution contracts (franchise, management-agent) are particularly highlighted. This course provides a practical understanding of contract law – both the general theory and the special regimes. The drafting of the GTC and the usefulness of distribution contracts (franchise, management-agent) are particularly highlighted. Beyond the knowledge of the particular legal regimes of the contractual clauses, it is the regulation of commercial relations (B to B and B to C). The essential thing for the drafter is to know how to take advantage of a suppletive framework. Other developments will be devoted to industrial contracts and commercial leases.

. The essential thing for the drafter is to know how to take advantage of a suppletive framework. Time will also be spent on to industrial contracts and commercial leases.

This course is aimed at training students to anticipate the impact of law on their European business activities. Attention will be focused on European institutions. Legal principles will be analyzed in terms of their foundations in social policy and their practical applications in business relations.

Arbitration has become an ordinary mode of dispute resolution in domestic and international law.

France, like many countries, has introduced flexible and liberal solutions to settle international trade disputes in a manner consistent with the will of the parties.

As much as possible, the course presents domestic and international arbitration law side-by-side. The course also examines solutions to the main issues raised by any arbitration procedure: validity of the arbitration agreement, formation of the arbitral tribunal, procedure before the arbitrators, law applicable to the merits, overturning and enforcement of sentences.

Intellectual property law: literary and artistic property (copyrights) and industrial property (patents, designs and trademarks) are the heart of a company’s intangible assets and need protecting. This seminar offers students the keys to understanding the subject with a grounding in the practicalities (e.g. how to file a trademark).

IT law: IT is nowadays omnipresent in the company. The aim is to identify the legal risks linked to its use in order to limit its effects (internet charter, files, inbox, data protection law, data collection and processing, etc.).

This course will cover the market for changes of ownership of companies (small and midcap) and how to organize a merger operation, including the various parties, from both legal and fiscal points of view (business valuation).

The course deals with the different aspects of group taxation: dividend distribution, tax optimization within a group, the notion of deferred taxation. Tax integration (horizontal, parent-subsidiary regime, etc.).

This seminar addresses the principles applicable in domestic law. VAT (intra-Community, domestic transactions, territorial applications). It will also address the guarantees and means of recourse available to the taxpayer (tax litigation).

The aim is to set out and study the constraints and opportunities in terms of income tax/corporate tax, methods of tax evasion, the response of the tax authorities, the impact of tax treaties and to establish an overview of tax havens.

The purpose of this course is to define the taxation of assets and investments linked to ownership (IFI) and income (property income, personal capital income, inheritance and gift tax).

Grand Oral in English based on contemporary debates. The different models of capitalism, growth, technological change and employment, knowledge and intangible economies, networks, territories and competitiveness clusters.