---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000107140-23-000026"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WLY"
cik: "0000107140"
company_name: "JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-02-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-20T01:47:19.361879+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# John Wiley & Sons dismisses KPMG as auditor, appoints PwC for FY2024

## Summary
- Audit Committee dismissed KPMG effective after completion of FY2023 audit and issuance of reports.
- No disagreements or reportable events with KPMG during FY2021, FY2022, or subsequent interim period.
- PwC selected as new independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, subject to client acceptance procedures.
- Prior KPMG audit reports were unqualified except a 2021 report mentioning Hindawi acquisition internal control scope (less than 1% of assets/revenue).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000107140-23-000026
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WLY
- cik: 0000107140
- company_name: JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-02-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714023000026/0000107140-23-000026-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714023000026/jwa-20230202.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000107140-23-000026.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. dismissed KPMG LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: KPMG LLP
  source text: on January 30, 2023, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company approved the dismissal of KPMG, effective following the completion of their audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended April 30, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714023000026/0000107140-23-000026-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  source text: the Audit Committee, on January 30, 2023, has selected and appointed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ("PwC") as the Company’s new independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/107140/000010714023000026/0000107140-23-000026-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.