Pennsylvania CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When

How much continuing professional education a Pennsylvania CPA actually needs — sourced the same way every fact on this site is: a board page plus the codified rule itself, never a guess.

Verified
CPE Hour Requirement
80 hours every 2 years
Source of record 49 Pa. Code § 11.62; § 11.63(a)(7) read the rule →

80 hours per 2-year renewal period, minimum 20 hours each year (§11.62), 4 hours of ethics (§11.63(a)(7)). A real correctness catch during research: several third-party CPE-vendor sites cite '§11.65' as the governing section for these requirements -- fetched that section directly and confirmed it is RESERVED (empty, no substantive text) as of 2012. The actual hour-count and ethics sections are §11.62 and §11.63, used here instead of repeating the wrong citation.