The specialized professional training time seeks to claim the accountancy/taxation relationship as a field of application from the international scientific advances. It provides the academic community with new knowledge and tools for students to advise, propose solutions and issue recommendations in the basis of the law, facing problems related to the fulfillment of tax subject obligations or rights claims. Likewise, students are encouraged to study not only Colombia’s internal regulations, but also the presentations, discussions and conclusions of the Latin American and Colombian Tax Law Conferences, which may be analyzed and perfected from the classrooms as a social commitment from the joint construction of all those involved.

This is why the Tax Management Specialization Program responds to the specific Management study in combination with the tax and accounting reality, and makes some clarifications that will allow to indicate an integral specialists training. Therefore, emphasis is made on the study of accounting and finance as a social practice, which strengthens the training in accounting knowledge, epistemology, research, transcending from the operative to the tasks of the professional in this and related areas.

Professional profile

The Tax Management Specialist must have a clear sense of the determination from the hermeneutic point of view of the different elements that make up the taxes of a national nature. In addition to being a reference for the application of the administrative process from fiscal planning to tax control in the different business scenarios. Finally, that he understands his participation for the balance from the legal perspective and interpretation of the current tax burdens that SMEs handle.

Graduates of the Tax Management Specialization will have a wide field of action, where they will be able to work as:

– Manager or director of the tax area in public or private organizations.

– Manager or director in public or private organizations in different areas of the economy.

– Advisor to companies on local, regional or international tax issues.

– Auditor of the tax area.

– Head of the tax area.

– Teacher, consultant and/or tax advisor.

– Public servant of the state inspection bodies.

Aimed at:

The Tax Management Specialization Program is aimed at professionals from different disciplines as public accountants, lawyers, economists, administrators or professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge of issues related to tax management, control, planning and administration. It is also intended for professionals who wish to strengthen their skills to analyze and understand the guidelines related to taxes, in a profitable and lasting way between company and client, and develop the skills to act as a change agent in a globalized context, with social responsibility and strategic vision, whose work is mediated by technology.

Competences to be developed:

The Tax Management Specialization will develop the following competencies in students:

– Competencies in research and management for fulfillment of regulations, standards and internal and external policies.

– Management skills to use tools for planning, directing and controlling taxes.

– Management skills to respond for the excellent direction of the tax area in an organization.

– Ability to understand legal regulations in force in local, national and international contexts.

– Management skills that will allow the optimus tax management.

– Ability to understand and apply hermeneutics in the determination of national taxes

– Argumentative capacity in the integration of the guidelines that constitute each tax and its impact on SMEs.

– Capacity to apply the constitutional and legal sources that justify the existence and validity of taxes at the local, national and international levels.

– Capacity to identify the impact of the risks involved in determining taxes on SMEs.