The investment decision: your preparation checklist.
Separate the commercial choice from the registration task. Define what the business must do, who controls it and which conditions would change the investment decision.
Use this list to prepare a decision brief that records options, evidence and unresolved professional questions. Mark the tasks you have reviewed and identify who owns the next action. Completion of a checklist does not establish authority approval or eligibility.
State the decision and the alternatives
What would make this plan commercially worthwhile? Record what is known and what still depends on another person or an authority.
Explain the business activity in plain language
Which ownership or activity assumption needs confirmation? Record what is known and what still depends on another person or an authority.
Map owners, controllers and signatories
Who can approve the next commitment? Record what is known and what still depends on another person or an authority.
Identify activity and premises assumptions
What would make this plan commercially worthwhile? Record what is known and what still depends on another person or an authority.
Prepare banking and funding questions
Which ownership or activity assumption needs confirmation? Keep the evidence, decision and responsible person together so the next handover does not restart the same discussion.
List regulated or specialist advice needed
Who can approve the next commitment? Keep the evidence, decision and responsible person together so the next handover does not restart the same discussion.
Compare costs and future obligations
What would make this plan commercially worthwhile? Keep the evidence, decision and responsible person together so the next handover does not restart the same discussion.
Ask for a written decision and scope record
Which ownership or activity assumption needs confirmation? Keep the evidence, decision and responsible person together so the next handover does not restart the same discussion.