New Jersey CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When
How much continuing professional education a New Jersey 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
120 hours every 3 years
- 20-hour minimum in each 1-year period (you can't front-load the whole requirement into a single year).
- 4 ethics hours, within that same total.
120 credits per triennial period, minimum 20 credits each year, at least 60 credits in technical subjects (24 of which in accounting/auditing for those in public practice), and 4 credits specifically in a New Jersey law and ethics course.
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