Minnesota requires CPE Sponsors to be registered with NASBA. 

You can read the full code @ 

http://www.boa.state.mn.us/

Statistically there are about 5,804
CPAs in Minnesota

With a requirement of 40 CPE Hours, that means that Minnesota CPAs spend around 232,157 hours on CPE to maintain their certification PER YEAR!

Boeing 737s take about 5,500 hours to build, so if CPAs built airplanes instead of doing CPE, Minnesota would produce an additional 42 Boeing 737s a year!  That's over a month's production for ALL of Boeing's Plants Nationwide from Minnesota ALONE!
 

Cities in Minnesota with the most CPAs

Rochester ~ 107 CPAs (4,271 CPE Credits)

Bloomington MN ~ 85 CPAs (3,407 CPE Credits)
Bloomington ~ 83 CPAs (3,316 CPE Credits)
Brooklyn Park ~ 76 CPAs (3,031 CPE Credits)
Plymouth ~ 71 CPAs (2,823 CPE Credits)
Saint Cloud ~ 66 CPAs (2,634 CPE Credits)
Eagan ~ 64 CPAs (2,568 CPE Credits)