Practical Accounting with A3

Practical Accounting with A3

Overview

This micro-credential offers comprehensive, practical training in accounting, highlighting its key role in financial control, decision-making, and tax compliance. Aimed at students with prior business experience, it allows them to work with real documentation and use A3 Con software to complete the entire accounting cycle, prepare annual accounts, and understand the tax obligations of SMEs and the self-employed, thus enhancing their professional skills.

Goals

The objectives of this microcredential are:

  • To provide an integrated view of the accounting cycle in a company, allowing students to practically consolidate their accounting knowledge and integrate it with the tax obligations that characterize SMEs and the self-employed.
  • Visualize a complete accounting cycle with the preparation of annual accounts, understanding the relationship between accounting and taxation.

Entry requirements (prior qualification if required)

Students must be between 25 and 64 years old on the date the training begins.

A university degree is not required to obtain this micro-credential, but applicants must meet the entry requirements for a university degree (University Entrance Exam, Advanced Vocational Training Certificate, Advanced Vocational Training Certificate in Plastic Arts and Design, or Advanced Sports Technician Certificate from the Spanish Education System, or equivalent qualifications, diplomas, or studies, as well as holding a European Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate Diploma). If applicants do not have an entrance exam or any of the qualifications listed above, they must demonstrate prior work experience in fields related to the training.

Those with prior accounting knowledge will find it easier to follow the training; however, anyone interested can enroll.

Academic program

Contents

  • Accounting and Tax Obligations
  • Company Registration and File Preparation
  • Opening Seats
  • Purchase Entries for Fixed Assets and Registration of Investment Goods
  • Long-Term Financing Entries
  • Purchase and Expense Entries
  • Sales and Revenue Entries
  • Regularization and Closure Operations
  • Tax Models
  • Preparation of Annual Accounts
  • Interpretation of Annual Accounts

Methodology and activities

The training activities to be carried out during the delivery of the micro-credential will be:

  • Theoretical classes: expository, explanatory or demonstration sessions of the contents and knowledge.
  • Practical classes: sessions of practical application of the content developed in the theoretical classes, through the resolution of exercises, problems or theoretical-practical scenarios.
  • Practical classes in the computer lab: practical sessions to understand and reinforce the content of the subject, through laboratory experiments or applied exercises in the computer lab.
  • Work: preparation of a study, essay, work… proposed in the subject, either individually or in a group following established guidelines.
  • Independent work: independent and self-regulated activity of the student based on the documentation and guidelines proposed in the subject, preparation of classes and exams, preparation of final reports, internship reports…
  • Tutoring (individual, group…): activity in which the teaching staff attends to, facilitates and guides one or more students in the training process.
  • Assessment: continuous assessment tests and final exams. Tests may be in person or online, and may be written, oral, or consist of practical exercises.

Regarding the way to organize the teaching to achieve the objectives set out in the micro-credential, the organizational modality summarized below will be followed:

  • Lectures/expository method: presentation or explanation by the teaching staff.
  • Practical classes: activities supervised by the teaching staff in the computer lab.
  • Seminars: completing exercises, solving problems or practical cases, others.
  • Individual work: individual preparation of assignments/projects/reports, portfolio,
  • Assessment: written tests, oral tests, practical tests…
  • Tutoring: instruction period in which teachers and students interact with the aim of reviewing and discussing materials and topics presented in class.
  • Active methodologies: cooperative learning, project-based learning, flipped classroom, service learning, game-based learning, case studies, problem solving… These are aimed at making learning a participatory process and are based on student agency.

Evaluation criteria

The microcredential will have an evaluation system (ES) based on the following evaluation tests:

  • Case studies, exercises and problems: tests in which students must solve, in a reasoned manner, within a certain time, and according to the established criteria, the cases, exercises or problems posed by the teaching staff, with the aim of applying the knowledge acquired.
  • Written works, memoirs, internship reports, and projects: a document prepared on a topic or activity carried out, following the instructions established by the teaching staff.

General information

Credits: 3 ECTS

Duration: 23/02/26 – 06/03/2026

Teaching modality: Mixed

Location: Computer lab of the General Foundation of the ULL

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Flexibility

Short courses available in various formats (in-person, online, or hybrid). Ideal for learning without interrupting your professional life.

Employability

Content created and delivered by professionals and experts in the field, designed for immediate application.

Certification

Endorsed by the University of La Laguna. You will receive an official ECTS certificate, valid in the European Higher Education Area.

Teaching staff

Alicia Correa Rodríguez

Myriam Quintero Hernández

Tuition

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Registration fee with or without discount

  • Microcredential price without discount: €217.50
  • Microcredential fee with discount: €65.25

The cost of tuition for this Microcredential will be subsidized by the “Plan for the development of university microcredentials”, investment 6 of component 21 of the Addendum to the “Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan”, financed by the European Union – Next Generation EU, 2025 financial year.

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