No. Costs may support a business plan but do not replace the actual duty and authority analysis.
Link expenditure to real support
Identify what resources are obtained and who performs the work. Government and professional charges remain separate from business spending.
Costs include the I-129 filing fee, the fraud prevention and detection fee, any asylum program fee that applies to the petitioner, optional premium processing, and professional fees; check current amounts in the USCIS fee schedule (G-1055). Identify delivery staff salaries, vendor contracts, premises, travel, and phased hiring that supports the proposed managerial or executive role. Do not represent case-preparation spending as proof that a U.S. operation is already viable or that the employee will necessarily perform managerial duties. For a new office, the operating budget has evidentiary value because it helps show how the organization expects to support a managerial or executive role at the end of the initial year. The corporate evidence, the American staffing needed to support a managerial description, immigration counsel, and any response to a request for evidence usually cost more than the filing itself. The larger expenditure is professional: preparing corporate evidence for a newly acquired entity takes real accounting and legal time. The spending sits in retrieval and analysis: obtaining archived payroll and pension records, translating foreign documents, and paying for a review of a history with several possible readings.