Earning CPE
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How Many CPE Credits Do You Need as a CPA?
CPE requirements vary by state, but most CPAs land around 40 hours a year or 120 over three years. Here’s how to find your exact number.
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Free CPE for CPAs: What’s Actually Available in 2026 (and What’s Worth Your Time)
Looking for free CPE credits? Here’s an honest breakdown of what’s actually available for CPAs in 2025 — including NASBA-approved options that won’t waste your time.
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How to Earn CPE Credits Without Sitting Through 4-Hour Webinars
There’s a better way to earn CPE credits than blocking off your calendar for webinars. Here’s how CPAs are completing requirements in less time without sacrificing quality.
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I Watched My Fiancé Waste Her Vacation on CPE. Here Is How To Fix It.
I spent my holiday break watching football and eating leftovers. My fiancé spent hers in purgatory. Between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, while we were supposed to be relaxing, she spent 10 hours glued to her laptop. She wasn’t watching Netflix. She was binge-watching professional education training because she left it until the end of the year.…
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NASBA-Approved AI & Excel CPE: A CPA’s Guide to Future-Proofing Skills
Can I get CPE credit for learning AI and Data Analytics? Yes. But you have to be careful where you learn it. Platforms like Coursera, Udemy, and DataCamp offer incredible technical training, but they often lack the one thing a CPA needs: NASBA Sponsorship. You can learn to code in Python on the weekend, but it won’t help…
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The 2025 Guide to Unlimited CPE: Comparing Tech vs. Tax Libraries
For decades, the CPE market has been split into two camps. You had the “Premium” providers charging $600+ for high-quality technical content, and the “Budget” providers charging $150 for PDFs on tax updates from 2019. If you wanted to learn Python, Power BI, or AI while earning credit, you had to overpay. If you just wanted to…
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Nano-Learning vs. Webinars: The Definitive Guide for CPAs
The era of the “second monitor” webinar is ending. Here is the data-backed case for why 10 minutes of focused learning beats 8 hours of background noise. Raise your hand if you have ever “attended” a CPE webinar while answering emails, checking Slack, or finishing a month-end close on your other monitor. We have all…
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Stop Wasting Time on DataCamp: How to Get CPA Credit for Tech Skills
There is a massive gap in the professional development market for accountants. On one side, you have incredible platforms like DataCamp, Coursera, and Udemy. They teach you modern skills like Python, SQL, and Power BI. But they have one fatal flaw for CPAs: They rarely offer NASBA-approved CPE credit. On the other side, you have…
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The Small Firm CPE Budget Guide: Unlimited Group Access Under $1,000
We talk to small firm owners constantly. There is a specific pain point that hits firms with 5 to 10 CPAs. You are in the “CPE Dead Zone.” You are too big to just let everyone expense random courses on their personal credit cards—tracking compliance becomes a nightmare. But you are too small to get…
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Navigating Nano-Learning: Why It’s the Future of Effective CPE
For decades, Continuing Professional Education (CPE) has been a compliance exercise built on traditional, time-intensive seminars. But the world has changed, and the way we learn is changing with it. The future of professional development isn’t about cramming 40 hours into a single week; it’s about building a sustainable, effective learning habit. This is the…