Nov 22, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25

ACCT 4400 - Single-entity Accounting and Tax Planning


Compensation planning and multi-jurisdictional tax planning issues and additional advanced tax planning topics in corporate and partnership formation, distributions, liquidations, and restructuring.

Requisites: ACCT 3400 and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Tax planning knowledge & skills objective: You will calculate the effect of federal income taxation on the cash flows from complex transactions, and (consequently) appreciate how taxation can affect operating, investing, and financing decisions.
  • Tax research skills objective: Although you are not tax research experts (yet), you will gain additional experience finding, reading, understanding, evaluating, and communicating primary and secondary authority for tax positions.
  • Tax rules knowledge objective: You will develop a deeper understanding of the complications that arise when owners and entities transact with each other,you will identify relevant tax issues when such transactions occur, and analyze tax implications.


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