How much continuing professional education a New York CPA actually needs — sourced the same way every fact on this site is: a board page plus the codified rule itself, never a guess.
Either 24 contact hours per calendar year if concentrated in one recognized subject area, or 40 hours if spread across multiple areas -- published here as the 40-hour figure since that's the requirement absent single-subject concentration, the more broadly applicable case. 4 hours of ethics required once every 3 calendar years (countable toward that year's annual total, not an add-on). Citation is the New York State Education Department's own stated authority (Education Law + Commissioner's Regulations Part 70); did not find a more granular subsection number than Part 70 itself independently confirmed, flagging this as slightly less precise than this batch's other citations rather than overstating precision.
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