How much continuing professional education a Utah CPA actually needs — sourced the same way every fact on this site is: a board page plus the codified rule itself, never a guess.
Sourcing note: The board's own CPA CPE FAQ (Utah DOPL, rev. 2025-07-10) states these figures, but its web domain currently blocks automated access, so this specific fact could not be freshly re-confirmed by an automated check at publish time -- only by matching search-engine copies of the same page. The codified rule text itself (linked above) was fetched and confirmed directly and states the same figures. Recommend a manual check of the board's page if you want to see it firsthand.
Utah CPAs must complete 80 CPE hours every two-year cycle (ending Dec 31 of even-numbered years), with no hours due at a licensee's first renewal after initial licensure. Within that 80, the rule sets two separate requirements: 3 hours of ethics education plus a separate 1 hour covering Utah CPA law and rules -- these are two distinct categories, not one combined 4-hour ethics figure.
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