Reading – A total of 8 hours of the remaining 30 CEs to achieve the 60 CEs required (or 15 CEs to achieve 45 CEs) may be acquired by reading books/journals/magazines. 

• • Each book counts as 1 CE, regardless of the number of pages. Books should have been published within the last 5 years.
  • Each trade/professional magazine/journal counts as 1 CE (or the approved amount) if you pass the associated quiz. These publications often have "Magazine" or "Journal" in their titles, and they may be differentiated with month/year or issue/volume designations. They must have been published within the two-year CE cycle.
  • This Reading study type does not include self-study courses that you complete for CEs by reading the course content, like a tax update course or the CFP-accepted postings on a site like kitces.com, which can be classified as the study type of "Classroom/Web.”