CFP® CE Hour Requirements
CFP® certificants are required to complete 30 hours of CE each reporting period:
The Reporting Period is a two year period ending the last day of the CFP® Certificants renewal month.
Select hours from one or two of the accepted subject topics.And the online required 2 hours ethics course.
School Sponsor Reports the Credit Hours Completed Directly to the CFP® Board (Once weekly on Wednesday)
Hours may not be carried over from one Reporting Period to the next.
Courses may be repeated from one compliance period to the next, as long as the courses are taken on a different compliance period.
Each reporting period, two of the required hours must be obtained from a pre-approved program on CFP® Board’s Code of Ethics and/or Practice Standards. Exceptions are not made. This requirement is designed to ensure that CFP® certificants review and remain informed of the Code of Ethics and Practice Standards to which they agree to adhere as a condition of certification.
Only the CFP® Certificant is allowed to look up his or her record of continuing education hours completed:
Certificants can access up-to-date information on CE hours that have been reported by CE sponsors by logging in to CFP® Board’s Web site at www.CFP.net/login. If all required CE hours are reported to CFP® Board directly by CE sponsors, including the required two-hour Code of Ethics and/or Practice Standards program, the certificant does not need to report additional CE hours.