Massachusetts CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When

How much continuing professional education a Massachusetts CPA actually needs — sourced the same way every fact on this site is: a board page plus the codified rule itself, never a guess.

Verified
CPE Hour Requirement
80 hours every 2 years
Source of record 252 CMR 2.14 read the rule →

80 hours in the 2-year period immediately preceding re-licensing (applicants engaged in public practice), including 4 hours of professional ethics (effective for licenses expiring on/after June 30, 2007). No carryover permitted between 2-year periods -- unlike several other states in this cluster that do allow some excess-hour carryover. No explicit annual minimum in this section. Verified directly against the codified regulation text.

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