COOPERS & LYBRAND as FEC employer text: $7.6 million

A legacy partnership name that still groups

Filers keep typing names they used on older W-2s and letterhead. COOPERS & LYBRAND is one of those strings. LobbyVault ranks the grouped text; it does not merge it into a successor firm. The $7,588,507 total is itemized individual gifts whose employer field grouped here. It is not Coopers’ historical audit fees and not a successor firm’s current PAC.

People who typed PRICE WATERHOUSE, PWC, DELOITTE, DELOITTE TOUCHE, or ACCOUNTANT without a firm sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode merger history into a single Big Four key.

Letterhead changes faster than FEC free text. A receipt typed in a later cycle can still carry COOPERS & LYBRAND because the filer copied an old employer. LobbyVault records that text. It does not ask whether the partnership still existed on the contribution date.

729 donors, 24,868 receipts

729 unique donors produced 24,868 COOPERS & LYBRAND contribution lines totaling $7,588,507. That is on the order of 34 itemized receipts per donor. Alumni who still type the pre-merger name share the string with anyone whose receipt carried the same letters. The packet does not publish a mean gift or an active-versus-retired split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and committee PAC filings in a successor firm’s name are outside the $7,588,507 unless the individual receipt itself lists COOPERS & LYBRAND. Unitemized gifts never appear.

The 24,868 lines are itemized federal receipts only. A partner who later typed PRICE WATERHOUSE on a new form leaves this key on that later line. The 729-person count does not track that migration.

Price Waterhouse, Deloitte, and title rows

PRICE WATERHOUSE is a separate employer-name key in this same dollar neighborhood. DELOITTE, DELOITTE TOUCHE, KPMG LLP, ERNST & YOUNG, and ACCOUNTANT are other strings. Combining them would be a researcher-built accounting recode. This page stays at $7,588,507 for COOPERS & LYBRAND only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the firm — partner, manager, CPA — as typed. CPA and ACCOUNTANT also exist as industry keys when donors put the credential in the employer box.

Reading the donor table

The COOPERS & LYBRAND donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach an audit client, an SEC matter, or a motive to that line. The FEC field is not a partnership directory.

Repeat names are expected among 24,868 lines from 729 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the legacy firm string.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $7,588,507, 24,868 contributions, 729 donors, top employer COOPERS & LYBRAND. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Open the industry index for PRICE WATERHOUSE, DELOITTE, and other firm-name rows, and the occupation index for titles next to this employer.

Merger history is not a recode in this table

COOPERS & LYBRAND stopped existing as a going concern after the Price Waterhouse combination, yet 729 donors still produced 24,868 contribution lines under the old letters totaling $7,588,507. That persistence is a feature of free-text FEC fields. It is not proof that a successor firm directed the gifts, and it is not a license to add PRICE WATERHOUSE into this total.

Researchers who want a Big Four family number must export several keys and document the recode. DELOITTE, DELOITTE TOUCHE, KPMG LLP, ERNST & YOUNG, ACCOUNTANT, and CPA stay outside the $7,588,507 unless a receipt itself grouped here. Unitemized gifts and successor PAC documents stay out as well.

The donor table lists names and committees as disclosed. LobbyVault does not attach an audit client to a large gift. Alumni who still type COOPERS & LYBRAND share the string with anyone whose receipt carried the same text. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS accounting rollup.

Keep COOPERS & LYBRAND’s $7,588,507, 24,868 contributions, and 729 donors on this legacy partnership string. PRICE WATERHOUSE, DELOITTE, and KPMG LLP stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts and successor PAC documents remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside the firm. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a NAICS accounting total.

Questions

How much have COOPERS & LYBRAND-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $7,588,507 to the COOPERS & LYBRAND employer string, from 24,868 contributions and 729 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a successor firm’s PAC and not a NAICS accounting total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this PricewaterhouseCoopers corporate political spending?

No. The $7,588,507 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to COOPERS & LYBRAND. Successor legal names, corporate treasury, and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include Price Waterhouse or Deloitte employees?

No. PRICE WATERHOUSE and DELOITTE are separate employer strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text COOPERS & LYBRAND. Staff who typed only ACCOUNTANT or CPA are in those title rows instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed COOPERS & LYBRAND?

The rollup counts 729 donors and 24,868 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an alumni headcount from a successor firm. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.