Alabama CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When
How much continuing professional education an Alabama CPA actually needs — sourced the same way every fact on this site is: a board page, plus the codified rule itself where we could confirm it against primary law, clearly labelled where we could only confirm it against the board's own page, never a guess.
Verified 2026-09-12
CPE Hour Requirement
40 hours every year
- 2 ethics hours, within that same total.
Alabama CPAs must complete 40 hours of CPE every fiscal year (October 1 to September 30) rather than a multi-year cycle, and hours do not carry over. At least 8 of the 40 hours must be in accounting and auditing, at least 2 hours must be a qualifying ethics course, and no more than 12 hours can come from personal-development topics.
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