PRESIDENTIAL POST-ELECTION SURVEY: Why Accountants Voted the Way They Did

z_-election-chart-trump-v-clinton-concerns-v2How accountants voted and why.

By Rick Telberg
CPA Trendlines Research

The CPA Trendlines post-election survey shows accountants split by different issues. Trump accountants tend to be most concerned about terrorism while Clinton accountants are more focused on global warming.

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Part of the spread might be explained by gender. Just as the accounting profession tends to be owned and operated by more men than women, 67.7 percent of CPA Trendlines respondents were men – and roughly the same ratio of votes for Trump over Clinton. The demographics of the tax and accounting profession’s practice owners and leaders — the core of the CPA Trendlines community — tend to match voting patterns beyond the profession. In that, accountants vote more like, well, voters, than accountants.