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, 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 professions 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 be necessary to take into account the cultural dimension and define its impact in an international negotiation. The national negotiation will focus on the sales process through role playing.

To 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 and break-even calculations.

Budget management techniques, activity management and dashboards.

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

The seminar covers the auditing of accounts as well as audit procedures, tests, methods and tools. Presentation of the legal audit, general aspects and implementation of the audit, assessment of internal control, specific verifications and end of mission reports.

Analytical procedures, physical controls, management representations.

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.

Necessary restatements of information.

Tools for financial diagnosis: study of the profitability, solvency and financial structure of the company.

The profitability study.

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 the SARL, the SA and the SNC.

Criteria for choosing a business form.

The role and powers of the supervisory and management bodies.

The principles and the fields of application of the tax, the tax optimization in a group.

International taxation. VAT: principles and mechanisms.

Special VAT regimes. The territoriality of VAT: the rules of the territoriality of VAT, the deliveries of movable goods, the supply of services. The VAT due: the VAT base and its calculation.

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 professions in the sector by professionals.

The course proposes to integrate the strategic approach of the company in order to understand and prepare its long-term development. To make a global diagnosis of the company and its environment by knowing how to appreciate its capacities to face and adapt to changes, to analyze and understand the structural problems linked to the implementation of a strategic plan; to decode the identity of an organization and to analyze the components of the culture of a company.

This general course presents the general chart of accounts, the accounting procedure and studies the different steps; mobilization of receivables; bank reconciliations; inventory entries.

Intermediate management balances; cash flow statement; writing and analysis of the tax return.

The aim is to understand the specificity of Anglo-Saxon accounting. Reading and analysis of Anglo-Saxon accounts based on case studies.

This seminar aims to communicate effectively, to structure and transmit a message. It also helps to define listening attitudes, to prepare an interview and to conduct meetings.

The problematic of budget management; the budget architecture with the implementation of synthesis documents; the management control of projects and its link with budget management. Management of dashboards and reporting.

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, to hold the legal secretariat, to master the legal, fiscal and social aspects of the creation and operation of the company.

In particular, the SAS, liberalized by the 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. 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 of the act is to know how to take advantage of a suppletive framework. Other developments will be devoted 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 the institutions of the european community. 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.

The course offers a joint presentation, as far as possible, of the domestic and international law of arbitration. The course is also intended to examine the solutions to the main issues raised by any arbitration procedure: validity of the arbitration agreement, constitution of the arbitral tribunal, procedure before the arbitrators, law applicable to the merits, setting aside and enforcement of awards.

Intellectual property law: literary and artistic property (copyrights) and industrial property (patents, designs and trademarks) are at the heart of the protection of intangible assets in the company. This seminar offers students the keys to understanding the subject while keeping the practical aspect of the matter (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, email box, data protection law, data collection and processing, etc.).

The objective of this course is to get to know the market of the transfer of company (small and midcap) and to approach the organization of an operation of merger acquisition and the various speakers, from a legal point of view on the one hand and financial on the other hand (evaluation of company).

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-daughter 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 remedies available to the taxpayer (tax litigation).

The aim is to set out and study the constraints and opportunities in terms of ir/IS, the means 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).

Great oral in English based on contemporary debates. The different models of capitalism, growth, technological change and employment, the knowledge and immaterial economy, networks, territories and competitiveness clusters.