frais d'étude

02:20 Mar 29, 2017 

Maybe I should have provided more context - sorry!

Even if the loan negotiations fall through, the financial planners will have put in a reasonable amount of work. They've undertaken to prepare a credit report (covering at least four areas), seek out financing sources and perform a detailed analysis of any offer. I'm wondering whether "processing costs" is not a broad enough term to cover all this.

I ended up submitting my translation last night (using "project expenses") and it was approved by the QA reviewer. But for future reference I'm still interested in any opinions. Thanks to all for the help and information so far.

13:16 Mar 28, 2017 

I think that without more context, defining what is understood is going to be difficult.
What I do in these cases, particularly where definitions for the purposes of the specific document are not providded, I start by listing each of the terms. I then check through a list of context-appropriate definitions in English (expenses, costs, fee, professional fees, expenditure, disbursement, etc) and determine what I will use and then match them appropriately throughout.

12:51 Mar 28, 2017 

Thanks for the quick response!

Elsewhere in the contract a set fee is stated and is said to cover "les frais, débours et honoraires" that will be incurred by the financial planning institution in carrying out its task. I suppose this supports the idea of "project expenses".