Accountant occupation money in the 2008 FEC cycle

Accountant and the 2008 cycle as two FEC filters

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation ACCOUNTANT and the 2008 election cycle. The intersection is $3,080,238 ($3.1 million), 3,825 contributions, and 1,874 donors. 8.1% of Accountant occupation dollars ($37,845,841) fall in 2008.

2008 is an even-year federal cycle labeled 2008 on FEC.gov, a presidential-year window in itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2008 dollars. ACCOUNTANT is the spelled-out title. CPA is a different abbreviation key. The 2008 join does not verify that the filer held a license. People who typed CPA instead of ACCOUNTANT sit on the CPA occupation page.

Accountant as an occupation string

On the occupation side, $37,845,841 is the Accountant total across cycles. Sibling labels (CPA, BOOKKEEPER, and CONTROLLER) stay on other pages. Accountant is not an AICPA census, a CPA-license file, or a merge with the CPA abbreviation.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $37,845,841. The Accountant donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $3,080,238 is a slice of. Dividing $3,080,238 by 3,825 receipts yields about $805 per line; dividing by 1,874 donors yields about $1,644 per person. Those ratios are arithmetic, not medians.

1,874 Accountant donors in the 2008 cell

The 2008 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Accountant. $3,080,238 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2008. It is not a 2010 midterm filter and not a later presidential cycle.

3,825 contributions from 1,874 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. About 2.0 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio. Mean per receipt about $805; mean per donor about $1,644. Those means are arithmetic on the 2008 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $3,080,238. Three numbers define the Accountant × 2008 cell: dollars $3,080,238, contribution rows 3,825, unique donors 1,874. Share of occupation dollars is 8.1% of $37,845,841.

What a Accountant–2008 join cannot claim

Matching Accountant with 2008 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Accountant donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not an AICPA census, a CPA-license file, or a merge with the CPA abbreviation.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. ACCOUNTANT is the spelled-out title. CPA is a different abbreviation key. The 2008 join does not verify that the filer held a license. People who typed CPA instead of ACCOUNTANT sit on the CPA occupation page. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. This page does not claim that $3,080,238 funded USAspending obligations. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Accountant donations hub is $37,845,841; the 2008 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Accountant and 2008 tables

Accountant donations holds the $37,845,841 occupation total. The 2008 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Accountant. All occupations places ACCOUNTANT beside other titles without merging sibling strings (CPA, BOOKKEEPER, and CONTROLLER). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $3,080,238 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Accountant dollars ($37,845,841). Use the 2008 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $3,080,238, 3,825 contributions, 1,874 donors, 8.1% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use.

Presidential-year reading of Accountant 2008

2008 is a presidential-year FEC clock. Primaries, generals, and leftover receipts from adjacent windows can sit in the same even-year label. This packet does not split $3,080,238 by those stages or by party.

A later or earlier cell for the same occupation string is a different join even when the occupation total $37,845,841 is shared. Keep ACCOUNTANT attached to $3,080,238 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2008.

Questions

How much did Accountant-labeled donors give in 2008?

The Accountant grouping’s 2008 cell is $3,080,238 in itemized individual contributions, from 3,825 contributions and 1,874 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $37,845,841 all-cycle occupation total.

Is Accountant the same as CPA in FEC data?

No. ACCOUNTANT and CPA are separate filer-entered strings. This join uses only ACCOUNTANT. The 2008 cycle filter on Accountant is $3,080,238, 3,825 contributions, and 1,874 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $37,845,841. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

What share of Accountant FEC money fell in 2008?

About 8.1%. $3,080,238 divided by $37,845,841 is the 2008 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 91.9% ($34,765,603) on the occupation hub. See the Accountant occupation hub for other cycles and the 2008 cycle hub for other strings.

Does Accountant 2008 money fund federal awards?

No. These figures are FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal awards are published by USAspending. This page does not claim that campaign gifts funded those awards. $3,080,238 is itemized receipts tagged ACCOUNTANT in 2008, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered.