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CPE Requirements for DSBA

Most accounting professionals in the United States require CPE credits to maintain their professional designation. Browse courses that meet your requirements, or choose one of our course packages, specially curated to contain all the hours and credits you need, in one place. The courses on LearnFormula may be counted towards professionally relevant, verifiable learning activities. It is the student's responsibility to validate whether an activity is an eligible educational activity for their professional development requirements based on their own learning needs.

Requirements Overview

Last updatedAug 21, 2026
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20/year, 80/2 years
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June 30
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Annual
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4 CPE hours of Accounting & Auditing CPE(s)4 CPE hours of Taxation12 CPE hours of CPE(s)

Simplifying Regulations for 2026

Each permit holder must have completed at least 80 hours of acceptable CPE each biennial reporting period. Each biennial reporting period ends on June 30 of each odd-numbered year. The 80 hours of CPE submitted must have been completed in the immediately preceding two-year 2-year period and must include 8 credit hours in accounting and/or auditing and 8 credit hours in taxation and 4 credit hours in a Delaware-specific ethics course approved by the Board as outlined in subsection 7.2.3.2. In addition to these 20 specified hours, each permit holder must complete at least an additional 20 credit hours in either accounting, auditing, or taxation.

Beginning on July 1, 2017, each permit holder must complete at a minimum 20 hours of continuing professional education CPE in each year of the reporting period.

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CPE QAS courses are built around relevant, verifiable content that can be applied toward DSBA CPE hours. As with any provider, it remains the member's responsibility to confirm an activity fits their own professional development needs before claiming it.

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