Course details
Whether you’re a professional accountant or a manager at a small-sized firm, navigating business taxes can be intimidating. Business taxes are an ongoing process for most businesses, with multiple due dates throughout the year. This course was designed to unlock the mystery around these forms and deadlines. Join professor Michael McDonald as he dives into the foundations of business taxes, detailing what needs to be submitted to the IRS, when it needs to be submitted, and the essentials of completing these tax forms. Upon completing this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of the government’s rules and requirements, as well as how to save time and funds when filing business taxes.
Instructor
Michael McDonaldPartner, Morning InvestmentsMichael McDonald is a researcher and professor of finance at Fairfield University.
He has extensive programming skills in SAS, Stata, Python, R, and SQL, among other programming languages. His past work experience includes using these programming languages to analyze big data sets in finance and economics and develop trading strategies based on data mining. He has done extensive work in investment banking, at tech startups, hedge funds, and on a wide variety of consulting projects. He has a track record of authoring creative and practical course materials for a variety of subject areas across business disciplines.
Michael’s core knowledge is focused on financial markets and investment decision-making. He has helped advise firms on capital investments, valuation issues, and capital allocation to enhance business strategy. He is the author of multiple research studies addressing complex questions across the finance discipline. Michael’s work has been cited by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, the CFA Institute, and many others.
Business taxes foundations
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– [Michael] Starting or running a business is hard enough. But for many people, there’s a hidden wall that they run into, business taxes. Dealing with the paperwork and filing of business taxes can be daunting. And that is certainly true for small and medium sized firms. I’m Dr. Michael McDonald, and I want to help you navigate this confusion. I’m a professor of finance, a business owner, and a frequent financial consultant to firms large and small. You do not need to be an accountant to benefit from this course. Anyone in charge of business taxes, from entrepreneurs to managers, can benefit from understanding the government’s rules and requirements. Of course, this is also something that accountants and bookkeepers need to know. My goal is to help you save yourself substantial amounts of time and money when dealing with business taxes. Join me on LinkedIn Learning.