Reporting examples
Reporting examples provide detailed guidance for political committees and other filers about disclosing various types of financial activity. Each page lists the information required for complete and accurate disclosure of a particular transaction with images of example reports, video tutorials and links to electronic filing software user manuals when they are available.
Links to reporting examples also appear within the help for candidates and committees guide for each filer type:
Political party committees
Registering
Receipts
- Earmarked contributions
- Contributions and transfers from federal candidates
- Refunded contributions
- Proceeds from sales
- National party receipts for presidential nominating convention, headquarters and recount accounts
- Bitcoin contributions
- Bitcoin as an investment
Disbursements
- Operating expenditures
- Credit card disbursements
- Contributions to federal candidates
- Redesignating contributions given
- In-kind contributions to candidates
- Earmarked contributions
- Refunds made
- Voided contributions
- Donations to nonfederal candidates
- National party disbursements for presidential nominating convention, headquarters and recount accounts
- Reimbursement of personal funds spent for non-travel expenses
- Reimbursement of personal funds spent for travel expenses
- Liquidating bitcoin
Independent expenditures
- 48-hour reports
- 24-hour reports
- Estimating independent expenditures
- Disseminating and paying for IEs in the same reporting period
- Paying for an IE first and disseminating in a later reporting period
- Disseminating an IE first and paying in a later reporting period
- Multistate independent expenditures
- Repaying independent expenditure debt
Debt
Allocation
Coordination
Federal Election Activity (FEA)
Terminating
Corporations and labor organizations
Registering
Receipts
- Payroll deductions
- Earmarked contributions
- Refunded contributions
- Proceeds from sales
- Bitcoin contributions
- Bitcoin as an investment
Disbursements
- Operating expenditures
- Paying the connected organization in advance
- Reimbursements from the connected organization
- Credit card disbursements
- Contributions to federal candidates
- Redesignating contributions given
- In-kind contributions to candidates
- Earmarked contributions
- Refunds made
- Voided contributions
- Donations to nonfederal candidates
- Reimbursement of personal funds spent for non-travel expenses
- Reimbursement of personal funds spent for travel expenses
- Liquidating bitcoin
Independent expenditures
- 48-hour reports
- 24-hour reports
- Estimating independent expenditures
- Disseminating and paying for IEs in the same reporting period
- Paying for an IE first and disseminating in a later reporting period
- Disseminating an IE first and paying in a later reporting period
- Multistate independent expenditures
- Repaying independent expenditure debt
Debt
Terminating
Political action committees (PACs)
Registering
- Registering a nonconnected committee
- Registering as a Super PAC
- Registering as a Hybrid PAC
- Multicandidate status
Receipts
- Earmarked contributions
- Refunded contributions
- Proceeds from sales
- Bitcoin contributions
- Bitcoin as an investment
Disbursements
- Operating expenditures
- Credit card disbursements
- Contributions to federal candidates
- Redesignating contributions given
- In-kind contributions to candidates
- Earmarked contributions
- Refunds made
- Voided contributions
- Donations to nonfederal candidates
- Reimbursement of personal funds spent for non-travel expenses
- Reimbursement of personal funds spent for travel expenses
- Liquidating bitcoin
Independent Expenditures
- 48-hour reports
- 24-hour reports
- Estimating independent expenditures
- Disseminating and paying for IEs in the same reporting period
- Paying for an IE first and disseminating in a later reporting period
- Disseminating an IE first and paying in a later reporting period
- Multistate independent expenditures
- Repaying independent expenditure debt
Debts
Terminating
Other filers
Independent expenditures by persons, group of persons or organizations, other than a political committee (Form 5)
- Quarterly reports for independent expenditure filers
- 24-hour reports for independent expenditure filers
- 48-hour reports for independent expenditure filers
- Estimating independent expenditures
- Aggregating independent expenditures
- Multistate independent expenditures