If you were registered with the Board in 2024, you may renew / reinstate your individual CPA certificate online for 2025 after November 1, 2024. The link is below:
All licensed CPAs have to report CPE for the 2024 CPE Report year in order for your 2025 renewal / reinstatement to be complete and valid – unless you were newly licensed in 2024 or you reinstated your license from a prior year in 2024.
Licensed CPAs who no longer practice and wish to register with the Board in INACTIVE status and be exempted from CPE should apply for Inactive Status through the Application Portal.
Please note that if you decide to reinstate to ACTIVE status in the future, the Board’s current reinstatement requirements include completion of 120 hours of continuing professional education within the past 3 years from reinstatement (including a Board-approved Professional Ethics course) PLUS one year of work experience within the past 4 years from reinstatement which must be verified by an active-licensed CPA. You should contact the Board at that time for reinstatement information.
If you no longer practice and wish to apply for RETIRED status with the Board and be exempted from CPE, you can apply through the Application Portal. Please use the Online Portal link at the top of this page, select the “Application Portal”, log on and apply.
To be registered in Retired status, you must first apply for Retired status –
- Eligibility to apply and register in CPA-RETIRED status requires that you:
- Be age 55 or older,
- Have held an Active license for at least 20 consecutive years, and
- Are no longer an owner, partner, shareholder, member, contractor, contractee, or employee of a CPA firm.
- Application fee for CPA-RETIRED is $50.
- Both CPA-RETIRED and CPA-INACTIVE statuses are CPE exempt and do not have practice privileges associated with the status.
- If you are approved for CPA-RETIRED and later wish to reinstate your license, you can do so based on the current Board rules at that time.
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2024 CPE reporting
The Board’s annual CPE reporting is done electronically through your online licensee portal. Please use the link below:
*If you are short on 2024 CPE Hours, please review and complete the form below:
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The Online Portal link (above) can also be used to apply for a CPA License and/or a CPA Firm Permit using a credit card; however, if you’d prefer to use a paper application and send in a check, please use the forms below:
New Applicants
New Firm Permits
Other Applications
LINKS
Louisiana Colleges and Universities with Accounting Programs
| Centenary College of Louisiana P.O. Box 41188 Shreveport, LA 71134-1188 (318) 869-5011 http://www.centenary.edu |
Nicholls State University 906 E. First Street Thibodaux, LA 70310 (504) 446-8111 http://www.nicholls.edu E-mail: nicholls@nicholls.edu |
| Dillard University 2601 Gentilly Boulevard New Orleans, LA 70122 (504) 283-8822 http://www.dillard.edu |
University of Holy Cross 4123 Woodland Drive New Orleans, LA 70131-7399 (504) 394-7744 http://www.uhcno.edu |
| Grambling State University P.O. Drawer 607 Grambling, LA 71245 318) 247-3811 http://www.gram.edu |
University of Louisiana at Monroe 700 University Avenue Monroe, LA 71209 (318) 342-1000 http://www.ulm.edu |
| Louisiana College 1140 College Drive Pineville, LA 71359-0588 (318) 487-7011 http://www.lacollege.edu |
Northwestern State University of LA College Avenue Natchitoches, LA 71497 (318) 357-6011 http://www.nsula.edu |
| Louisiana State University Office of Undergraduate Admissions 110 Thomas Boyd Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (225) 578-1175 http://www.lsu.edu/ |
Southeastern Louisiana University SLU 10752 Hammond, LA 70402 (985) 549-2000 http://www.southeastern.edu |
| Louisiana Tech University Tech Station, P.O. Box 3168 Ruston, LA 71272 (318) 257-0211 http://www.latech.edu |
Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Southern Branch Post Office Baton Rouge, LA 70813 (504) 771-4500 http://www.subr.edu |
| Loyola University of New Orleans 6363 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 (504) 865-2011 http://www.loyno.edu |
Southern University at New Orleans 6400 Press Drive New Orleans, LA 70126 (504) 286-5000 http://www.suno.edu |
| LSU and A & M College 156 Thomas Boyd Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (504) 388-6977 http://www.lsu.edu |
Tulane University 6823 St. Charles Avenue New Orleans, LA 70118 (504) 865-4000 http://www.tulane.edu |
| LSU-Alexandria Department of Business Administration 8100 Highway 71 South Alexandria, LA 71302-9121 (318) 473-6414 http://www.lsua.edu |
University of Louisiana Lafayette Department of Accounting B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration Hebrard Blvd., Lafayette, LA 70503 Moody Hall, room 335 (337) 482-6218 http://accounting.louisiana.edu |
| LSU-Shreveport One University Place Shreveport, LA 71115 (318) 797-5000 http://www.lsus.edu |
University of New Orleans Lakefront New Orleans, LA 70148 (504) 280-6000 http://www.uno.edu |
| McNeese State University P.O. Box 93300 Lake Charles, LA 70609 (318) 475-5000 http://www.mcneese.edu |
Xavier University of Louisiana 7325 Palmetto Street New Orleans, LA 70125 (504) 486-7411 http://www.xula.edu |