New York CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When
How much continuing professional education a New York 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.
- 4 ethics hours, required once every 3 years (counts toward the total above, not an add-on).
Either 24 contact hours per calendar year if concentrated in one recognized subject area, or 40 hours if spread across multiple areas -- published here as the 40-hour figure since that's the requirement absent single-subject concentration, the more broadly applicable case. 4 hours of ethics required once every 3 calendar years (countable toward that year's annual total, not an add-on). Citation is the New York State Education Department's own stated authority (Education Law + Commissioner's Regulations Part 70); the Department does not publish a subsection more granular than Part 70 itself, so this citation is less precise than most on this site -- we would rather say so than imply a precision the source does not have.
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