CPA occupation money in the 2012 FEC cycle

CPA as occupation, 2012 as cycle

Two keys define this page. One is the occupation string CPA. The other is the 2012 federal election cycle. The match is $3,964,168, built from 5,479 contributions and 2,763 unique donors. Drop either key and the number changes. Five thousand-plus presidential-year gifts from about 2,800 donors is a high-volume cell with a modest mean line. Repeat giving inside 2011–2012 adds rows. The packet has no firm-level split.

Average contribution is about $724; average per donor is about $1,435. Those means are arithmetic on the 2012 cell only. The packet has no median, no party split, and no employer table. About 2.0 itemized rows per donor is a filing ratio, not a headcount of unique humans behind every spelling variant.

CPA is not ACCOUNTANT on this table

CPA is the three-letter occupation string as typed. CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, if stored separately, is another hub. ACCOUNTANT is a different high-volume key. The FEC does not verify licenses or AICPA membership.

$44,519,078 is every cycle combined for CPA. $3,964,168 in 2012 is about 8.9% of that stack. Other windows hold about 91.1% ($40,554,910). A cycle cell at 8.9% is a chapter, not the occupation’s full FEC history. ACCOUNTANT, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, and AUDITOR are other occupation pages if stored separately. Combining them without naming each source total mixes keys.

2,763 donors and 5,479 gifts in 2012

2,763 unique donors against 5,479 contributions implies some repeat giving inside the 2012 window. Primaries, generals, and multiple committees all add rows. One person can appear more than once if addresses or names vary. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $3,964,168.

A title on a form is not an employment verification. People using a household occupation, a retired title, or a short status word can all land in the same cell. LobbyVault does not recode CPA into a NAICS industry or a licensing roster. Recipients of the campaign gifts live on the occupation hub and the 2012 cycle hub.

About 8.9% of a $44.5 million occupation stack

8.9% is $3,964,168 divided by $44,519,078. Reading only 2012 understates the parent occupation book. Reading only the parent hides that this cycle’s share is 8.9%. The leftover outside 2012 is $40,554,910. Those other-cycle dollars are not itemized on this relationship page.

Presidential-year and midterm windows are different FEC two-year clocks. This page cites cycle 2012 only. A later or earlier cell for the same occupation string is a different join even when the occupation total $44,519,078 is shared.

What a CPA–2012 join cannot claim

This page does not rank accounting firms and does not convert occupation text into a partnership contribution. Tax-prep volume is not a field in this packet.

The page does not identify employers, does not convert occupation text into a corporate gift, and does not link FEC receipts to USAspending obligations. Campaign gifts and federal awards remain separate public records. Correlation between a job title and a cycle total is not causation. Cite $3,964,168, 5,479 contributions, and 2,763 donors for CPA in 2012. Cite $44,519,078 for the all-cycle occupation grouping. Name FEC.gov.

Related CPA and 2012 tables

CPA donations is the occupation hub behind $44,519,078. The 2012 election cycle page is the cycle census across occupations. All occupations lists other strings. All FEC ties collects other occupation-cycle pairs from the same two fields. Live hubs override this snapshot. If a hub disagrees with $3,964,168, 5,479 gifts, or 2,763 donor IDs, the hub and FEC.gov control.

Keep the occupation string CPA attached to $3,964,168 whenever the sentence also names cycle 2012. Keep 5,479 contributions and 2,763 donors in the same citation so readers can see whether CPA in 2012 is a high-volume stack or a concentrated roster. The all-cycle occupation total $44,519,078 answers a different question: every window combined, not this two-year clock. Unitemized receipts, independent expenditures, and state-office campaigns sit outside this extract. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

Questions

How much did CPA-labeled donors give in 2012?

The CPA grouping’s 2012 cell is $3,964,168 in itemized individual contributions, from 5,479 contributions and 2,763 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the occupation-cycle join, not a PAC total and not the $44,519,078 all-cycle occupation total.

Is ACCOUNTANT included in this CPA total?

No. This cell is the self-reported string CPA matched to cycle 2012. ACCOUNTANT, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, and AUDITOR are other keys if stored separately. The FEC does not verify that the title matches a license or payroll. See the CPA occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

What share of CPA FEC money fell in 2012?

About 8.9%. $3,964,168 divided by $44,519,078 is the 2012 cell’s share of the lifetime occupation bucket. Other cycles hold about 91.1% ($40,554,910) on the occupation hub. See the CPA occupation hub for other cycles and the 2012 cycle hub for other strings.

Does the FEC verify CPA licenses?

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. $3,964,168 is itemized receipts tagged CPA in 2012, not an obligation total. Occupation labels are filer-entered. Unitemized gifts never enter this cell. FEC.gov is the source.