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The National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and the American Institute of CPAs remind they seek public comment on an exposure draft proposing changes to continuing professional education standards.NASBA and the AICPA released the draft, Statement on Standards for Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Programs, on September 17. The proposed revisions address emerging learning methods, clarify credit-awarding mechanisms and ensure CPE remains relevant to the evolving needs of the profession.  “These proposed revisions reflect the hard work and collaboration of the CPE Standards Working Group, NASBA’s CPE Committee, and the Joint AICPA/NASBA CPE Standards Committee, as well as input from…

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A top restaurateur has a plea for Gen Z: please drink up.Momofuku founder David Chang says America’s youth isn’t drinking alcohol in the same way as earlier generations, and it has become the “real existential threat” to the restaurant industry.”Kids just don’t drink anymore,” Chang said in an interview with TBPN talk-show hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays this week.”They are never going to know what it is like to wake up at 3 p.m. in the afternoon and be like: ‘Shit, I left my credit card in that bar.'”Gen Z not getting drunk is a problem for restaurants, he…

Maskot | Maskot | Getty ImagesIn November 2022, Beth Pinsker’s 76-year-old mother began to get sick.Ann Pinsker, an otherwise healthy woman, had elected to have a spinal surgery to preserve her ability to walk after having back issues. What Ann and Beth had thought would be a straightforward recovery process instead yielded complications and infections, landing Ann in one assisted living facility after another as her daughter navigated her care.Eventually, by July of the following year, Ann died.”We thought she’d be back up to speed a few weeks after hospital stay, rehab, home, but she had complications, and it was…

When Robinhood launched its app in 2015 with a commission-free trading platform, it positioned itself as the anti-Wall Street offering for a generation skeptical of big banks and old-school brokers.But in a recent interview on Jack Altman’s “Uncapped” podcast, CEO Vlad Tenev said a surprising cultural reversal is now underway: Gen Z is embracing financial traditions their parents ignored, while older investors are chasing the new and shiny. “Now I think Gen Z and Gen Alpha, there’s almost this opposite thing happening where the old big storied incumbents are kind of cool again,” Tenev said. “There’s a broader trend of…

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.In 1989, Byron Trott was working at Goldman Sachs in the private wealth management division when he paid a visit to Jack Taylor, the founder of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company.”Jack was there with his son, Andy, who was running the company,” Trott said. “And they said to me, ‘Sport, I don’t know who told you we have any money, but we are 10 to 1 levered on our business.’ Now,…

Bobbi Brown built a billion-dollar beauty brand only to find herself feeling pushed out of it in 2016.Though she is one of the beauty industry’s most influential founders, she coped after exiting Estée Lauder in the same way many would after leaving a job.”My neighbors came over and I drank tequila with them,” said Brown at The Wall Street Journal’s CMO Council Summit on Wednesday.Brown, who recently published her memoir, “Still Bobbi,” said she considers herself fired from the beauty conglomerate, even though it never officially terminated her.Roughly two decades after the corporation acquired her makeup brand, her work contract…

For Starbucks, its rotating menus of festive flavors are a carefully crafted global strategy to define what the holidays taste like.Each November, the world’s largest coffee chain rolls out limited-time menu offerings designed to spark both joy and revenue — from Latin America’s Hazelnut Caramel Latte to gingerbread classics featured across the Asia Pacific region.Underneath the whipped cream this year is a clue to how the brand’s turnaround effort is going, analysts told Business Insider.Starbucks shared with Business Insider what its 2025 holiday drink menu looks like around the world, featuring 12 regional drinks meticulously curated to ring in the…

The $5 trillion hedge fund industry is backed by some of the biggest pools of money in the world — pensions, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds.But those big-name institutions are facing a cash crunch thanks to capital tied up in illiquid private equity and venture funds. For hedge funds looking to grow, there are trillions of dollars outside the institutions wanting in on the action, according to Goldman Sachs.Private wealth — which refers to money held on platforms run by the private banking divisions of places like Goldman as well as wealth advice giants like Merrill Lynch, independent advisors, and…

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Deep Shah, a 30-year-old senior software engineer at Google, based in Mountain View, CA. The following has been edited for length and clarity.Since I joined Google in 2018, it has been amazing to see the impact I’ve had.I started at Google Bangalore in India, where I was part of a team using machine learning and AI on Google Maps. After spending a few years there, I moved to the US in 2021 to work at the Google Mountain View location in California.I’ve been at Google Mountain View for around four years,…