Does a bookkeeper certification last forever or does it expire and need to be renewed?

Generally, any certification must be renewed on an annual basis.

Go back to the organization that certified you. You may have a continuing education requirement and may have to pay an annual fee to keep your certification.

If you are working with a certification, yes...if you are not continuously employed as a bookkeeper, you will need to be recertified yearly to prove that you still have up to date skills.

However if you have either a 2 year or 4 year accounting degree from a college or University, that is PERMANENT and you can leave a bookkeeping job in 2020 - work as a tap dancer for a year, and then apply for another bookkeeping job and not have to go back to college and take classes to be recertified to be hired.

I don't believe so.

However, to keep your certification, you will probably have to take Continuing Education classes each year which can be few hundred dollars per yer.

I never knew their was an exam. Not sure there is.