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 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
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.
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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