California CPE

Online Continuing Professional Education - CA CPE

Lawline Offers CPE in California

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California CPE Requirements

Total CPERequirements:

80 Credits Every 2 Years

Specialty Requirements:

  • Government: If the individual engages in planning, directing, conducting substantial portions of field work, or reporting on financial or compliance audits of a government agency, 24 hours of government CPE are required.
     
  • Accounting & Auditing: If the individual engages in planning, directing, approving, performing substantial portions of the work, or reporting on an audit, review, compilation or attestation services on a non-governmental entity, 24 hours of A & A are required.
     
  • Fraud: For licensees who are subject to the A&A or Government CE requirement, an additional 8 hours of fraud CE, related to the detection and/or reporting of fraud in financial statements, is required. The fraud CE is part of the 80 hours of CE required for license renewal, but not part of the 24-hour A&A or government CE requirement.
     
  • Technical: A minimum of 50% (at least 40 hours) must be in technical subject areas such as accounting, auditing, taxation, consulting, financial planning, Board-approved professional conduct and ethics course, computer and information technology (except for word processing) and specialized industry or government practices related to public accounting skills.
    - A 50% cap (at most 40 hours) in the non-technical subject areas such as communication skills, word processing, sales, marketing, motivational techniques, negotiation skills, office management, practice management, and personnel management. - The maximum credit for instructors is 50% or 40 hours. - The maximum credit for writing articles/books/instructional materials/Uniform CPA exam questions is 25% or 20 hours of the total requirement. - Credits for authorship/publications are acceptable as long as the publisher is not under control of the licensee. - Half credits are accepted after first hour. - Academic credit limited to the following:  1 quarter hour equals 10 CPE hours; 1 semester hour equals 15 CPE hours; and 1 hour non-credit classroom presentation equals 1 CPE hour.

Reporting Date:

Professionals must complete their requirements by last day of their birth month every 3 years

Reporting Date Rule:

A minimum of 20 Credits must be completed every year.  16 Credits must be in Accounting & Auditing over the 2 years.

Credits Professionals Can Earn on Lawline.com:

Professionals may earn all their credits on Furthered.com

Courses We Currently Offer in State: 894

State Contact Info:

http://www.dca.ca.gov/cba