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Commercial Fundamentals
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BYU-Idaho + BYU-Pathway

The commercial fundamentals certificate provides useful business skills in Excel and other Microsoft applications, sales, social media, and communication. In addition, students develop an understanding of how to use spreadsheets to create and monitor simple financial statements in a small business setting.

This certificate is offered by BYU-Idaho, with support and resources from BYU-Pathway Worldwide.

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Looking Ahead
Potential Employment
  • Customer service representative
  • Account manager
  • Sales position
  • Marketing assistant
Certificate of Commercial Fundamentals
Program Requirements
This certificate builds into the Applied Business Management degree.
This is an introductory certificate.
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Certificate
12 CREDITS
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Associate
60 CREDITS
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Bachelor's
90–96 CREDITS
Certificate of Commercial Fundamentals
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For questions about this program, contact BYU-Pathway Support
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Why choose this certificate?
Commercial fundamentals training will give you the experience and tools to understand the finances and improve the sales of small businesses, create effective social media campaigns and organizational spreadsheets, and improve communication through negotiation, collaboration, listening and persuasion.

BYU-Pathway has found that certain combinations of certificates lead to better job opportunities. Most degrees have a recommended plan of certificates that will help students increase their income and improve their employment possibilities.
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Outcomes
  • Create professional spreadsheets using advanced functionality to visualize and solve business problems.
  • Understand and manage the accounting cycle and cash flow of a small business.
  • Design and launch a social media campaign to promote a business.
  • Improve sales in organizations through persuasive selling skills, including finding, asking questions, highlighting features and benefits, overcoming objections, negotiating and closing, and service after the sale.
  • Improve workplace communication by applying non-verbal, listening, relationship-building, public speaking, persuasion, and other interpersonal communication skills.