CPA political contributions from Virginia

The CPA–Virginia intersection

Occupation CPA and donor state VA produce $1,336,194, 3,626 contributions, and 316 donors. The occupation hub is $44,519,078, 167,600 contributions, and 10,766 donors. Virginia’s dollar share is about 3.0%; contribution share about 2.2% (3,626 of 167,600); donor share about 2.9% (316 of 10,766). Three hundred sixteen Virginia donors are 2.9% of 10,766 national CPA donors. Dollars ($1,336,194 of $44,519,078) are about 3.0%; contributions (3,626 of 167,600) about 2.2%, so dollars outrun rows.

ACCOUNTANT, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, and AUDITOR, if used, sit in other hubs. Do not stack CPA with ACCOUNTANT or AUDITOR into a single Virginia professional total. Those are other occupation strings with other hubs.

316 Virginia donors produced 3,626 contributions, about 11.5 itemized rows per donor in this join, versus about 15.6 rows per donor nationally (167,600 contributions from 10,766 donors). The arithmetic mean gift in this Virginia cell is about $369, against about $266 nationwide. Virginia’s higher mean versus the national CPA cell is arithmetic on 3,626 rows, not a ranking of Northern Virginia firms. Rows per donor here (about 11.5) sit below the national CPA pace (about 15.6).

CPA receipts with a Virginia address

CPA is a filer-entered string. The file does not confirm an active Virginia CPA license or a federal-agency employer. The letters CPA plus state VA are the filter. The $44,519,078 national total is CPA only. 10,766 donors produced 167,600 contributions in that occupation bucket.

This page does not split those 167,600 rows by cycle, employer, or recipient. It locates how much of the labeled money is also coded to Virginia (VA). This page locates the Virginia overlap. It does not classify the 316 Virginia donors as government, industry, or public-practice CPAs.

Virginia as donor state

316 Virginia donors produced 3,626 contributions totaling $1,336,194. Donor state VA is the address on the record, not proof of a Virginia license, and not a limit to Virginia candidates. VA is the address on the itemized record. Beltway geography is not an FEC field for employer, clearance, or commuting. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee.

The Virginia campaign-finance hub includes every occupation coded to VA. This join is only CPA. The CPA occupation hub without Virginia still holds about 97.0% of the $44,519,078. Virginia’s state hub includes every occupation coded to VA. CPA is only this filter.

What not to infer from CPA plus Virginia

This page does not merge Accountant dollars, treat donors as federal contractors, or claim that CPA-coded money caused any electoral result. Occupation plus state is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not causation. CPA plus VA is a bookkeeping join. Correlation is not a contracting map.

Unitemized gifts and independent expenditures are omitted. FEC.gov is the source. Occupation labels are filer-entered. CPA is not a Virginia Board of Accountancy extract. Donor state VA is not recipient geography. Itemized individual contributions only. Firm names are not in these six numbers.

Three numbers, two fields, one CPA filter

Subtract the Virginia dollars on this page from the national CPA occupation total and the difference is the amount still coded CPA in every other state combined. That remainder ($43,182,884) has no row-by-row breakdown here because those states are other ties. The occupation internal link holds the unlabeled-by-state total; the state internal link holds every occupation with this state code; the occupations index and the ties index place this pair among other joins built the same way.

A unique-donor count of 316 is not a person-level audit. The FEC aggregate can merge similar names or split one person who filed under variants. A contribution count of 3,626 can be many small itemized rows. A dollar total of $1,336,194 can hide that skew. Keeping all three figures on the same page is the point of the join: quoting only the Virginia dollars, or only the CPA national total, drops a key. Three hundred sixteen donors producing 3,626 contributions is the fact to keep next to the $1,336,194 headline.

Related tables

Cpa donations holds the $44,519,078 national occupation total. Virginia campaign finance holds the state’s itemized individual activity across occupations. All occupations and all FEC ties collect other occupation-state pairs from the same two fields. Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio have separate CPA occupation-state ties; do not add those dollars here.

Questions

How much have CPA donors in Virginia given?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation CPA and state Virginia total $1,336,194, from 3,626 contributions and 316 donors. Nationwide, CPA-coded receipts are $44,519,078 from 167,600 contributions and 10,766 donors. Virginia is about 3.0% of those dollars. Occupation labels are filer-entered.

Are Virginia CPA donors federal employees?

The file does not say. Occupation is CPA and state is VA. Three hundred sixteen donors are not a contractor or civil-service headcount. The 316 Virginia donors used occupation CPA and state VA. Filers who wrote ACCOUNTANT or CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT may sit in a different occupation bucket. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FEC.gov is the source.

What share of CPA FEC money is from Virginia?

About 3.0% of the $44,519,078 occupation total is in this Virginia join ($1,336,194). Virginia also accounts for about 2.2% of contributions (3,626 of 167,600) and about 2.9% of donors (316 of 10,766). About 3.0% of dollars from 316 of 10,766 donors; contribution share is about 2.2%.

Does this money go to Virginia candidates?

Not necessarily. Donor state is Virginia. Recipients can be any FEC-filing committee. This page does not allocate the $1,336,194 by office or by in-state versus out-of-state campaigns. Open the state hub for every occupation coded to VA; open the occupation hub for every state in the bucket.