The evidence should present the actual path clearly, including material returns and subsequent transfers.
Explain the sequence rather than hide it
Use relevant records that reconcile the movements and the actual recipient. Do not describe a routine returned payment as completed enterprise funding merely to simplify the narrative.
Bring corporate formation and ownership documents, the management agreement, and bank and transfer records tracing funds from their lawful origin to the enterprise, along with contracts, leases or licences already signed. Ask the seller for three years of financial statements and tax returns, the payroll register with hours, utility and water accounts, machine counts and service records, and the premises lease. Commitment shows the money has gone into the enterprise and cannot come back: invoices and matching payments, the lease and rent receipts, payroll registers, licence and incorporation fees, and the business bank account showing the balance being deployed rather than parked. Test the plan against the records an officer can inspect today: executed purchase agreements, a lease, invoices, bank transfers, payroll forecasts, licensing steps, and a business plan whose assumptions can be checked. The funding trail runs from origin to destination in dated steps: savings history, an asset sale, a gift or loan with its own paperwork, then the transfers, the closing statement, escrow instructions, and receipts.