Delaware CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When
How much continuing professional education a Delaware 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
80 hours every 2 years
- 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.
Source of record
24 Del. Admin. Code § 100-7.0 (as amended by 27 Del. Reg. 978, eff. July 1, 2024)
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Delaware CPAs must complete 80 hours of approved CPE every two-year permit period (ending June 30 of odd-numbered years), with at least 20 hours completed each year. Of the 80 hours, 8 must be in accounting/auditing, 8 in taxation, and 4 in a board-approved Delaware-specific ethics course, with the remaining 20+ hours in accounting, auditing, or taxation.
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