Just how poor is Patrick Murphy?

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4. Murphy did get licensed as a CPA in Colorado

"Murphy says he is a CPA. Murphy has never been a licensed CPA in Florida."

Summary: This one has some nuance. Murphy started at Deloitte in Miami 2007 as an "audit assistant." The ad omits that he did get his CPA license -- but in Colorado. He could not sign off on audits in Florida since he didn’t have his Florida license, but he still was a CPA.

Murphy often touted his work as a CPA and acknowledged during his 2012 campaign that his license was from Colorado after his opponent attacked him for it.

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He started at Deloitte in Florida 2007 as an audit assistant. He applied for his CPA license from Colorado in 2009; at the time Colorado required fewer semester credits than Florida.

After he obtained the license in September 2009, he was promoted to "audit senior" and left in May 2010.

http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2016/jun/29/guide-attacks-patrick-murphys-resume/

I'm not a Murphy fan but technically he is/was licensed as a CPA and worked as an auditor.

The same page also discusses the claims that Murphy was a small business owner. He is/was an partial owner of the family company - depending on the size of the business it could be considered a "small business" since the IRS definition of a "small business" includes assets of $10 million or less.