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Louisiana CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When

How much continuing professional education a Louisiana 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 2026-09-23
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).
Source of record Louisiana Administrative Code, Title 46, Part XIX, §1301(A) read the rule →

Louisiana CPAs must complete 80 hours of CPE within a rolling two-calendar-year period, with a minimum of 20 hours in each individual year. Certificate holders who work on attest engagements must also complete at least 8 of those hours in accounting and auditing subjects each year. The codified rule requires a board-approved ethics course but leaves the specific hour count to board practice rather than fixing a number in the rule text itself.