CPE, unh, what is it good for?
May 1, 2007 11:25 AM   Subscribe

What can a non-accountant use CPE credits for?

I got some CPE credits (rather a lot of them!) after attending some training at SANS. I have no idea what CPE credits even are, and searching the Intertron only turned up shady places where you can buy CPE credits, most of them aimed at accountants. I found absolutely no information about what CPE credits are good for.

I'm not an accountant; the training I went to was for network security and system/network log management. Why did I get CPE credits? What can I do with them?

I'm still a university student; if there's a possible use for them at school, I'd love to hear about it. I did a search on my school's web page, but again could only find references to programs rewarding them.

Thanks in advance for any info you can supply.
posted by yomimono to Work & Money (2 answers total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: poster's request.

 
Continuing Professional Education credits are a way for professionals to prove they're keeping at least somewhat current in their field. By attending classes that offer these credits, they can learn about new developments in their field. Lots of fields require this; medicine and education are a couple that track it fairly rigorously. As a non-professional accountant , accounting CPE credits don't do you much good. You could bring them up in your review at work and say "I attended these trainings and learned X, Y, and Z".
posted by cosmicbandito at 12:41 PM on May 1, 2007


Response by poster: I figured this out myself after some additional googling. Flagged for deletion on account of being totally useless.
posted by yomimono at 1:12 PM on May 1, 2007


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