ETIM: "The financial audit is 75% complete and should be finalized by May 30 of this year."
5 days to the deadline:
"Once he has the financial package in hand, John Demetrius, president of Demetrius & Company L.L.C., expects "our completion should not take longer than one week to 10 days."
why not just say - "will be ready sometime this summer" and avoid the whole no credibility thing?
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.