Mississippi requires CPE Sponsors to be registered with NASBA. 

You can read the full code @ 

http://www.msbpa.state.ms.us/

Statistically there are about 5,102
CPAs in Mississippi

With a requirement of 40 CPE Hours, that means that Mississippi CPAs spend around 204,092 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, Mississippi would produce an additional 37 Boeing 737s a year!  That's over a month's production for ALL of Boeing's Plants Nationwide from Mississippi ALONE!
 

Cities in Mississippi with the most CPAs

Gulfport ~ 68 CPAs (2,712 CPE Credits)

Hattiesburg ~ 46 CPAs (1,840 CPE Credits)
Biloxi ~ 44 CPAs (1,762 CPE Credits)
Meridian ~ 41 CPAs (1,646 CPE Credits)
Tupelo ~ 35 CPAs (1,382 CPE Credits)
Greenville ~ 34 CPAs (1,376 CPE Credits)
Olive Branch ~ 33 CPAs (1,339 CPE Credits)