How much continuing professional education a Nevada CPA actually needs — sourced the same way every fact on this site is: a board page plus the codified rule itself, never a guess.
Nevada runs an ANNUAL cycle, not the 2-year cycle most states use: 40 CPE hours every calendar year (Jan 1-Dec 31), including 2 hours of professional ethics every year. No carryover of excess hours is allowed. If the licensee performed audit, review, compilation, or attestation services in the prior 12 months, an additional 8 hours in accounting and auditing are required that year. First annual renewal after initial licensure is exempt. Interpretation trap: several CPE-vendor sites (Surgent, NinjaCPE, Encoursa) wrongly describe Nevada as an '80 hours per 2 years / 4 hours ethics' state -- that figure does not match the board's own site or the codified NAC text, both of which confirm the 40-hour annual cycle with 2 annual ethics hours. Verified against both NAC 628.210 (Cornell regulations mirror, full text read) and the Nevada State Board of Accountancy's own education page.
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