Accenture and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Accenture as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — ACCENTURE and 2008 — sum to $384,198. 461 itemized contributions and 251 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. Cite FEC.gov for this intersection.

Neither the Accenture hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Accenture is professional-services employer text, not a verified payroll file. 251 donors and 461 lines in 2008 matched that stored string. People who typed a neighboring spelling sit in other buckets. Named affiliates and related titles are other keys. This page is the exact string ACCENTURE.

The join exists so a reader does not treat $5,479,548 (all cycles for this string) as the 2008 story, and does not treat the 2008 cycle hub as a Accenture-only list. Two filters, one cell: $384,198.

7.0% of the Accenture roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,479,548. The 2008 slice of $384,198 is about 7.0% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.0% ($5,095,350). Treating 2008 as the entire Accenture FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $5,479,548 as the denominator for the 7.0% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $5,479,548. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

461 contributions from 251 donors

Dividing $384,198 by 461 contributions yields about $833 per itemized gift. Dividing by 251 donors yields about $1,531 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 1.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. FEC.gov itemized individual receipts are the universe.

251 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. Accenture is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Accenture to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $384,198 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 461 contributions, the 251 unique donors, and the 7.0% share of $5,479,548.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $384,198. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is professional-services employer text, not Accenture PAC, Accenture LLP as a corporate treasury, or USAspending awards tagged to Accenture entities.

Correlation between an employer string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 251 donors, and 461 contributions. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Citing Accenture and 2008 together

Start with $384,198, then Accenture 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: ACCENTURE, 2008, $384,198, 461 contributions, 251 donors, 7.0% of $5,479,548, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.0% share, the 251-donor count, and the $833 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 461 itemized contributions totaling $384,198 average about $833 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did Accenture donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $384,198 in itemized individual contributions for the Accenture grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 461 contributions and 251 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,479,548 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of Accenture FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,479,548. The 2008 cell of $384,198 is about 7.0% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.0% ($5,095,350) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only currently employed Accenture donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string ACCENTURE. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $384,198 from 251 donors across 461 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the Accenture 2008 join?

Open Accenture 2008 for the cycle overlay, Accenture 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. Cite FEC.gov for $384,198, 461 contributions, and 251 donors.