Nevada CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When
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 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.
- 2 ethics hours, within that same total.
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. The rule grants no carryover of excess hours (though it does not expressly prohibit it). 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: some third-party CPE-vendor summaries describe Nevada as an '80 hours per 2 years / 4 hours ethics' state -- that does not match the board's own page or the codified NAC text, both of which confirm the 40-hour annual cycle with 2 annual ethics hours. Both NAC 628.210 and the Nevada board's own education page state the same 40-hour annual cycle with 2 ethics hours: "Effective 2024 the requirement for all licensees is to obtain 40 hours of continuing education to be completed each calendar year. Of the required 40 hours, 2 must be in the area of ethics."
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