If you've searched for "Florida CPA renewal date" expecting a single answer the way Wisconsin or Illinois CPAs get one, here's the honest answer: for individual licenses, there isn't one — and that's worth understanding rather than guessing at.
Florida CPA license renewal used to be described here (and in a lot of secondary sources online) as following an odd/even-year cohort split, the same pattern many other states use. A 2026-07-05 data review found that framing was wrong: Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) runs individual CPA licenses on a rolling 2-year "reestablishment period" anchored to each CPA's own original certificate date — not a publicly stated calendar rule. Checked against DBPR's own live license-verification tool, real active licenses show both odd- and even-year expirations simultaneously, confirming there's no single date that applies to "Florida CPAs" as a group. Check your exact license status on Florida's own DBPR lookup, linked from our Florida page — it's the only way to know your actual date.
Unlike the individual-license picture, Florida firm licenses are simple: a single cohort expiring December 31 of each odd-numbered year. This isn't a guess -- Florida's own public CPA license records (DBPR's published license-data file, reviewed 2026-07-30) show 4,932 of 4,933 active firm licenses sharing that same December 31, 2027 expiration, about as close to a universal rule as operational data gets. If you're a firm owner rather than tracking your own individual license, this is the date that actually applies to you.
Florida requires 80 CPE hours per 2-year re-establishment period (Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 61H1-33.003): at least 8 hours in accounting/auditing, at least 4 hours of Board-approved ethics (a review of Chapters 455 and 473, Florida Statutes, and related rules), and no more than 20 hours in behavioral subjects. There's no separate annual minimum written into the rule itself -- the 80-hour count is checked against the full 2-year period. One date worth flagging separately from your license renewal itself: CPE reporting is due July 31, ahead of the biennial renewal, not on the renewal date itself.
Bottom line: if you're an individual Florida CPA, don't trust an odd/even guess -- confirm your exact date on DBPR's own license lookup, since it's tied to your personal certificate date, not a public calendar rule. If you're tracking a firm license instead, December 31 of odd years is the real, confirmed date. Either way, your 80-hour/2-year CPE count (with its July 31 reporting deadline) runs on its own separate clock. See the full sourcing and set a reminder for your Florida deadline here.
General orientation, not a citation. This guide draws on board rules and, where available, this site's own verified dataset — it isn't a primary source in itself. Last checked against those sources: August 7, 2026.
For the current renewal date or CPE figures your state actually enforces, use the state page linked above — it carries a direct link to the board page and codified rule, per our verification standard.