Pennsylvania CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When
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Verified 2026-11-11
CPE Hour Requirement
80 hours every 2 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.
Firms: This page covers the individual CPA license only. Firm permit or registration renewal for Pennsylvania isn't tracked here yet, so confirm your firm's own date with the state board. The board's page for firms.
80 hours per 2-year renewal period, minimum 20 hours each year (§11.62), 4 hours of ethics (§11.63(a)(7)). Several third-party CPE-vendor sites cite §11.65 for these requirements; that section has been RESERVED (no substantive text) since 2012. The governing sections are §11.62 and §11.63.
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