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Wisconsin CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When

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Verified 2026-11-05
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).
  • 3 ethics hours, within that same total.
Source of record Wis. Admin. Code Accy 2.602 read the rule →

80 CPE credits per 2-year compliance period (the period immediately preceding renewal), of which at least 40 must be from formal learning activities and 3 of those formal-learning hours must be on ethics. At least 20 credits must be completed in each 12-month half of the period.

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