No. The employment and knowledge requirements need their own evidence. A course or business expense does not create the historical foreign year.
Use money figures only for their purpose
Explain genuine training where relevant without treating its price or duration as a universal eligibility shortcut.
Government charges per the USCIS fee schedule, professional fees for the eligibility review and petition, staff time to assemble procedure and training records, and the L-2 applications for any family. Specialized-knowledge petitions attract requests for evidence more often than the executive category, because the central question is a matter of degree rather than of fact. Company training, relocation assistance, software licensing, government charges, legal services, travel, and household reserves are not interchangeable evidence. A recurring mistake is arguing that a high vendor quote proves specialized knowledge; commercial value may provide context but cannot replace the statutory elements. The larger costs are usually the preparation of specialized-knowledge evidence and, where a client site is involved, the contractual documentation showing the petitioner controls the work.