NAICS 541211 offices of certified public accountants obligations

CPA-office contracts, not the tax code

NAICS 541211 is offices of certified public accountants. Contracting officers assign it when the principal purpose is CPA-firm work — audit, accounting, and related professional services as the Census class groups them. This $6,336,126,889.87 is that professional-services tag. It is not Internal Revenue collections, not a count of 1040s, and not NAICS 522390 (other activities related to credit intermediation).

One thousand seven hundred seventy-five awards produced a mean of about $3.6 million. Federal audit and accounting vehicles can be large, multi-year contracts, which pulls the mean above a small-business bookkeeping invoice. The packet does not count audit opinions, hours, or findings.

Other management consulting (541618) is a residual advisory class, not this CPA-office code. A strategy contract tagged 541618 does not sit in $6.3 billion.

CPA-office contracts (541211) are a professional-services tag at $6,336,126,889.87 on 1,775 awards, about $3.6 million per award. That is not Internal Revenue collections, not a count of tax returns, and not residual credit intermediation (522390), which in this extract is 77 awards at $7.5 billion. Different Census families, different questions.

Audit vehicles and payment timing

CPA contracts often obligate estimated professional fees and pay as engagements progress. Unused option years leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $6.3 billion as audits already issued would overstate cash on open vehicles.

The 1,775-award count is not an engagement count in the operational sense USAspending may still group multiple task orders into awards. Dividing dollars by awards is not a fee per audit.

Nearby finance and consulting codes

Credit-intermediation residual (522390) is a 77-award, high-mean finance tag in this extract. CPA offices are a 541 professional-services tag. Those hubs are not interchangeable.

Assistance that funds state audit shops often lacks NAICS and does not enter $6,336,126,889.87.

In-house government auditors are not 541211 contracts. Accounting work tagged to a broader consulting NAICS such as 541618 will not appear here. This $6.3 billion is the tagged CPA-office slice. Assistance that funds state audit shops often lacks NAICS and stays outside.

How to use the 541211 hub

Read $6.3 billion and 1,775 awards as the CPA-office contract tag, then open the offices of certified public accountants industry page for award-level fields. Rank 541 professional-services codes on the all-industries index without converting them into a tax-gap estimate.

This guide does not add audit findings because they are not in the facts object.

Classification limits

In-house government auditors are not 541211 contracts. Accounting work tagged to a broader consulting NAICS will not appear here. SpendingVault reports the tagged CPA-office sum.

Extract updates will move $6,336,126,889.87 and 1,775 with USAspending.

How to keep tax administration out of the CPA-contract total

If the question is “how much does tax administration cost,” use agency pages, not this industry tag. If the question is “how much did USAspending tag to NAICS 541211,” the answer is $6.3 billion across 1,775 awards.

Open the offices of certified public accountants industry page for award-level fields. Rank 541 professional-services codes without converting them into a tax-gap estimate. Cite USAspending.gov. No audit-opinion count appears in the packet. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on open engagement vehicles.

CPA-office contracts at $6,336,126,889.87 on 1,775 awards are a professional-services tag, not tax collections. The mean of about $3.6 million often reflects multi-year audit vehicles. Audit-opinion counts are not in the packet. Residual credit intermediation is a 522 class, not this 541 class.

In-house government auditors are not 541211 contracts. Open the offices of certified public accountants industry page for award-level fields. Cite USAspending.gov. Assistance that funds state audit shops often lacks NAICS. Unused option years mean obligations can exceed fees already billed.

One thousand seven hundred seventy-five CPA-office awards at $6,336,126,889.87 are professional-services contracts, not a tax-administration budget. Residual credit intermediation is a 522 class. In-house auditors are not 541211. Audit-opinion counts are absent. Open the offices of certified public accountants industry page. Cite USAspending.gov. State-audit grants often omit NAICS. Open option years can leave fees unbilled against obligated balances.

The 1,775-award count next to $6,336,126,889.87 is the CPA-office book. Rank 541 professional-services NAICS without converting this tag into tax collections or into residual credit-intermediation dollars.

Questions

How much is obligated under NAICS 541211?

Offices of certified public accountants contracts in USAspending show $6,336,126,889.87 in obligations across 1,775 awards. That is a CPA-office professional-services tag, not tax collections and not credit-intermediation NAICS 522390. The figure is obligations, not outlays. Assistance without NAICS is excluded.

What is the average CPA-office award?

Dividing $6,336,126,889.87 by 1,775 awards yields about $3.6 million. That mean often reflects multi-year audit vehicles rather than a small bookkeeping invoice. It is not a fee per tax return. The packet does not publish a median or an engagement count.

Does this include IRS tax administration spending?

Only contract actions tagged 541211. Agency operations and tax collections are not this industry total. Other activities related to credit intermediation (522390) is a different code. This $6.3 billion is the CPA-office tag. Use agency pages for awarding-agency views. Use agency pages for awarding-agency views of tax administration and this hub for the CPA-office industry tag.

Is NAICS 541211 the same as management consulting?

No. Other management consulting is NAICS 541618. Offices of CPAs are NAICS 541211. The two totals are not interchangeable. Mixed advisory-and-audit contracts follow the principal NAICS the officer selected. Mixed advisory-and-audit contracts follow the principal NAICS the officer selected; use 541618 for residual management consulting and 541211 for CPA offices.