Maryland CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When
How much continuing professional education a Maryland 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
- 4 ethics hours, within that same total.
80 credit hours per 2-year license term (does not apply to a licensee's first renewal), including 4 hours of professional ethics. No explicit annual minimum in this section. Up to 80 excess hours may carry forward to the next 2-year term (but excess ethics hours specifically cannot satisfy a future term's own 4-hour ethics requirement).
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