Pre-Submission Cost Check
A shorter pass focused on the riskiest lines before you lodge — useful when the annex is nearly final and the deadline is close.
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Verity Application Cost Audit
Cost annexes examined before the funder sees them
We test the figures behind grant, subsidy, loan, and tender applications — wages, invoices, matching contributions, and the evidence that must travel with them.
Flagship review
Full Application Cost Audit
A line-by-line reading of the cost schedule attached to your application, written up as a findings memo your finance lead can act on before filing day.
Engagements usually run eight to fifteen working days. You send the annex and supporting packs; we return severity-ordered findings and, when asked, a corrected schedule draft.
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Other ways we help before lodging
Shorter checks when the annex is nearly final, or when the hard part is organising the proof behind each line.
Evidence Pack Readiness
We organise and gap-check the invoices, contracts, and timesheets that sit behind your cost schedule so reviewers can follow the trail.
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Clarification Response Support
When a funder or tender board queries your cost lines, we help you answer with evidence and revised figures that stay consistent with the original annex.
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From the desk
Figures that survive a clarification round
Applicants come to us after a painful query letter — or to avoid one. We stay with the cost schedule, not the storytelling pages, so your numbers and evidence point the same direction.
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What people say after a review
“They caught three matching lines that reused the same volunteer hours. Reworking those pages delayed us by a week, which frustrated our programme lead, but the funder never asked about matching again.”
Niran P., finance officer for a coastal education charity
“The findings memo named the exact invoices missing for our subcontractor block. We knew what to collect overnight.”
Suda K., tender coordinator
“We used the pre-submission check on a short annex. Clear, specific, and paced to our lodging date.”
Marcus L., regional grant writer
Field notes
Recent guides
Matching contributions that hold up under a cost review
In-kind staff time and donated equipment look generous on paper — until a reviewer asks for timesheets and ownership proof.
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When overhead percentages invite funder queries
Flat overhead mark-ups are easy to type and hard to defend. Here is how we ask clients to document them.
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Building a cost annex from messy ledgers
Not every applicant keeps project codes. You can still assemble a credible schedule if you start from bank statements and contracts.
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Tell us the funder type, page count, and deadline. We reply within two business days with availability and a fee range.
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