Alaska CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When
How much continuing professional education an Alaska 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.
- 20-hour minimum in each 1-year period (you can't front-load the whole requirement into a single year).
- 4 ethics hours, within that same total.
Alaska CPAs complete 80 CPE hours per biennial (2-year) licensing period, with at least 20 hours completed in each of the two years, including at least 4 hours of ethics somewhere in the 2-year period (no state-specific ethics course is mandated by regulation -- AICPA Ethics, Circular 230 Ethics, or Behavioral Ethics all qualify). No more than 10 of the 80 hours may come from micro-learning (activities under one hour). Renewal is biennial, due Dec 31 of odd-numbered years. Effective for licensing periods beginning on/after Jan 1, 2026, no more than 12 CPE hours may be earned in a single day. Two independent official sources state the same 80/20/4-hour figures: the Division's own Statutes and Regulations compilation of 12 AAC 04.300, and the Board's own licensee update.
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