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Missouri CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When

How much continuing professional education a Missouri 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
40 hours every year
  • 2 ethics hours, within that same total.
Source of record 20 CSR 2010-4.010(1)(B) read the rule →

Effective January 1, 2020: 40 hours of CPE every calendar year a license is held, minimum 2 hours ethics. Rule (1)(A) preserves the pre-2020 120-hours/3-year/6-ethics-hours standard as historical context only -- the current, governing requirement is (1)(B). Since 2021, licensees in good standing get a grace period through March 1 to cure a prior calendar year's CPE shortage on written application to the board (rule (1)(C)).