Wisconsin CPA CPE Requirements: How Many Hours, By When
How much continuing professional education a Wisconsin 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).
- 3 ethics hours, within that same total.
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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