CPA

CPA as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — CPA and 2008 — sum to $1,507,267. 1,677 itemized contributions and 550 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the CPA hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. CPA is an abbreviation stored as an industry grouping, not a state-board license file. Five hundred fifty donors in 2008 matched those three letters. ACCOUNTANT is a longer occupation word with its own cell. Named firms typed as employer stay off this abbreviation. ACCOUNTANT, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP, and other firm names are other keys. This page is the three-letter CPA string.

1.9% of the CPA roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $77,953,344 ($78.0 million). The 2008 slice of $1,507,267 is about 1.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 98.1% ($76,446,077). Treating 2008 as the CPA FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $77,953,344 as the denominator for the 1.9% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $77,953,344.

Questions

How much did CPA donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,507,267 in itemized individual contributions for the CPA grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,677 contributions and 550 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $77,953,344 all-cycle figure.

What share of CPA FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $77,953,344. The 2008 cell of $1,507,267 is about 1.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 98.1% ($76,446,077) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the CPA hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only licensed or currently employed CPA donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string CPA. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $1,507,267 from 550 donors.

Where is the overlay for the CPA 2008 join?

Open CPA 2008 for the cycle overlay, CPA for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.