By selling shares of ownership in their company, Seattle Scientific acquires the funds needed to finance their research and development projects. Seattle Scientific provides for their long-term funding needs through financing.

Equity Financing

Explanation:

Equity literally means the ownership of assets that may have debts attached to them. Example of equity could be a house, car, machineries, or a business

EQUITY FINANCING: This is the process by which companies raise capital through the sale of shares.

Selling of shares is the sale of part of the ownership of a company in exchange for money to either startup or expand a company's operation.

Companies raise capital in order to fulfill their short and long-term goals.

Equity= Total Assets - Total liabilities

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.