As of May 2025, Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals (HFTP®) is officially approved by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) to offer official CPE credits for QAS™ Self Study programs. This expansion adds to the association's existing NASBA approved Group Internet Based and Group Live formats, providing our members with greater flexibility in meeting their professional education requirements. This designation demonstrates HFTP’s ongoing commitment to delivering high-quality continuing education.

What is a QAS Self Study program?

A QAS™ Self Study program is a course that you can complete on your own time, at your own pace, and without interacting synchronously with an instructor. These courses are designed following instructional design principles and best practices to allow learners to guide their own learning to achieve stated objectives asynchronously.

Not just any asynchronous learning content can be designated as a QAS Self Study program. These courses must adhere to a strict set of standards as laid out by the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. To achieve this milestone, the HFTP Learning Department carefully designed and developed courses to align with these standards. We submitted one sample course to undergo an in-depth and multi-phase application and instructional design review. Now this process is complete, and we are able to offer NASBA approved CPE credits for our courses.

We're committed to expanding our CPE-eligible selections across our online self-paced courses. Meeting both NASBA standards and our own quality benchmarks requires a thorough review of each course, so we're methodically working through our HFTP Academy catalog to certify more asynchronous offerings. This careful process ensures all CPE-eligible courses deliver the valuable credentials and high-quality instruction our members expect. For those holding HFTP certifications like the CHAE® or CHTP®, this will not have an impact as all our self-paced courses meet the HFTP CPE requirements.

Which courses offer NASBA approved CPE credits?

We are working non-stop to ensure that all of our HFTP Academy courses will be able to award NASBA approved CPE credits. Look for the white banner on the catalog course cards to know which courses are currently offering NASBA approved CPE.

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