No. Use actual dates and have the relevant timing assessed before relying on the transfer.
Keep the chronology current
A planned future period is not a completed qualifying year.
Confirm the actual approval and status dates from the underlying documents, keep the submitted business plan on file, and record changes to staffing, duties, or operations as they occur rather than reconstructing them later. Preparation of the corporate and employment evidence typically takes weeks; USCIS adjudication depends on the current backlog unless premium processing is purchased. L-1A still requires one continuous year of managerial or executive employment abroad in the preceding three, a qualifying parent, branch, subsidiary or affiliate relationship with continuing foreign operations, and a proposed position that is chiefly managerial or executive. The requirement is one continuous year of qualifying employment abroad within the three years preceding the petition, so filing early on the strength of a fourteen-month association that includes contract months puts the case at risk over a point that four months of patience resolves. Explain actual commitments, ordinary work allocation and expected managerial responsibilities without promising that commercial delays extend the authorized period.