Verified November 6, 2026 against the state board. Rules change, so read the board’s current rules before relying on them.
Nevada State Board of Accountancy licenses CPAs in Nevada. Its rules and forms are the authority for everything on this page.
Nevada CPAs complete 40 hours of CPE every calendar year, with 2 hours of professional ethics each year.
Sources: nvaccountancy.com/education, nvaccountancy.com/renewal, nasbaregistry.org/cpe-requirements/nevada
Nevada permits to practice expire each December 31, and renewals are due by January 31.
Sources: nvaccountancy.com/renewal, nvaccountancy.com/requirements, policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB510-83rd2025
Since February 27, 2026, Nevada licensure has three routes set by Board regulation: a master's degree plus one year of experience, a bachelor's degree plus 30 more credit hours and one year, or a bachelor's degree plus two years of experience. Assembly Bill 510 (2025) moved education and experience requirements from NRS 628 into Board regulation.
Sources: nvaccountancy.com/experience, nvaccountancy.com/exam_education, nvaccountancy.com/requirements, accountingtoday.com/news/nevada-implements-cpa-licensure-changes, policyrisk.com/state-bill/NV-AB510-83rd2025
Nevada CPAs complete 40 hours of CPE every calendar year, with 2 hours of professional ethics each year. Two hours of professional ethics are due every year. The Board does not name a required course, and live or self-study formats are accepted. Anyone who took part in an audit, review, full-disclosure compilation or attestation engagement in the past 12 months also needs 8 hours of accounting and auditing CPE. No carryover. Extra hours in one year do not reduce the next year's 40-hour requirement. A CPA who lives and is licensed in another state meets Nevada's CPE requirement by complying with that state's CPE rules and showing that compliance on the renewal. If the home state has no CPE requirement, Nevada's requirement applies (NASBA CPE requirements page for Nevada; NAC 628.210).
The compliance period is January 1 to December 31. The renewal form asks whether the licensee did attest-type work and met the 8-hour accounting and auditing requirement. Credit-bearing courses count 15 hours per semester credit and 10 per quarter credit; non-credit courses count one hour per classroom hour.
Nevada permits to practice expire each December 31, and renewals are due by January 31. Annual; permits expire December 31. January 31. The renewal fee is $175. Renewals after January 31 carry a $150 late fee, and CPE completed late adds $100 (January) or $350 (February through March). Inactive status needs Board approval and a request by January 31.
The Board offers a reciprocity application for CPAs already licensed in another state. Applicants who passed the exam elsewhere need their exam grades and licensure verified by the original state board. Assembly Bill 510 (2025, Statutes of Nevada chapter 29) lets the Board waive Nevada's exam, education or experience requirements for holders of a current CPA certificate from another state, effective January 1, 2026.
To sit for the exam, a candidate needs a bachelor's degree with an accounting major, or without one, at least 18 upper-level accounting semester credits (financial accounting 6, cost 3, auditing 3, federal income tax 3, business law 3). Nevada licensure no longer requires 150 semester hours on every route. The Board's pathways are a master's degree plus 1 year (2,000 hours) of experience, a bachelor's degree plus 30 additional credits plus 1 year (2,000 hours), or a bachelor's degree alone plus 2 years (4,000 hours). The bachelor's-plus-two-years route took effect February 27, 2026.
Experience must be supervised by a licensed CPA and verified on a form signed under penalty of perjury. Qualifying work includes attestation, compilation, tax, advisory, internal audit and fraud examination; bookkeeping, routine transaction processing and clerical work do not count. Applicants keep records for three years after certification.
License applicants must pass a Rules of Professional Conduct exam taken within the last three years.
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