Identify the relevant sources and periods and connect them to supporting records. Separate established facts from estimates and unresolved gaps.
Make the calculation reproducible without inventing records
Explain how the claimed accumulated amount relates to the evidence. Do not create backdated receipts or claim a precise savings history solely because a spreadsheet can be made to reach the investment figure.
Build a simple table: position, person, pay periods, hours per period, source document. Prescribed historical tax records can be required in an EB-5 filing, and it is wrong to assume a fixed number of years is never relevant. Source of funds for a business sale has two parts, and sellers often prepare only the second. The report must fit the permitted methodology and actual case facts. Source asks how the money was lawfully earned, inherited, gifted or realised. Pause the transfer review until the mismatch is explained by genuine records. Independently trace the applicant’s lawful source and path of capital. In practice that usually means tax filings and employment or business records covering the years in which the contributions were made.