How much continuing professional education a Washington CPA actually needs — sourced the same way every fact on this site is: a board page plus the codified rule itself, never a guess.
120 hours per 3-year reporting period, minimum 20 hours each calendar year, a 4-hour Washington-board-approved ethics course, and a cap of no more than 60 hours in nontechnical subject areas. Verified directly against the Washington Legislature's own rule-hosting site (app.leg.wa.gov). Note: WAC 4-25 (an older citation still floating around some third-party CPE-vendor sites) has been recodified/superseded -- the correct current section is WAC 4-30-134, used here.
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