Rewriting a business plan, updating projections and re-reviewing the evidence is genuine work that gets paid for twice if the first version is already drafted. Add accountancy time for revised forecasts, legal review of the financing conditions, and the carrying cost of premises or staff committed before the funding arrived.
Decide what to hold and what to spend
Distinguish spending that must happen before filing from spending that can wait for the funding to clear. A plan revision and a legal assessment are usually worth doing now; a full office fit-out usually is not. Ask the adviser whether a further revision would be charged again, and whether the fee assumes a single set of projections.
Where money is tight, put it into the assessment that decides whether to file at all. Hypothetical example: a Port Moody document storage and shredding company revises its United States launch after a landlord withdraws, and pays for a second business plan, a second set of projections and a second legal review within four months. A first review would separate the work that genuinely has to be repeated from the work that only needs updating.
Financial projections usually need rebuilding; corporate ownership evidence, the organisational chart and the transferee's employment history usually do not. Ask for a fee arrangement that reflects that split, rather than a single figure quoted as though the entire exercise were starting again from nothing.