---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001065280-22-000330"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NFLX"
cik: "0001065280"
company_name: "NETFLIX INC"
filed_at: "2022-09-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T07:37:08.800277+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Netflix principal accounting officer Ken Barker resigns; CFO Neumann assumes role temporarily

## Summary
- Ken Barker resigns as principal accounting officer, effective October 7, 2022.
- Resignation is personal and not due to any disagreement with the company.
- CFO Spencer Neumann will serve as principal accounting officer during search for replacement.
- Neumann receives no additional compensation for assuming the role.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001065280-22-000330
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NFLX
- cik: 0001065280
- company_name: NETFLIX INC
- filed_at: 2022-09-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528022000330/0001065280-22-000330-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528022000330/nflx-20220922.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065280-22-000330
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065280-22-000330.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001065280-22-000330.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Spencer Neumann changed role as principal accounting officer at NETFLIX INC.
  - Action: assumed
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: Effective immediately following Mr. Barker’s resignation, Spencer Neumann, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, will assume the role of principal accounting officer while the Company searches for a permanent replacement.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528022000330/0001065280-22-000330-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ken Barker resigned as principal accounting officer at NETFLIX INC.
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: principal accounting officer
  source text: On September 22, 2022, Ken Barker, the principal accounting officer of Netflix, Inc. (the “Company”), submitted his resignation, effective October 7, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1065280/000106528022000330/0001065280-22-000330-index.htm

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