---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001084048-23-000015"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ZD"
cik: "0001084048"
company_name: "ZIFF DAVIS, INC."
filed_at: "2023-03-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-18T02:49:19.368515+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ziff Davis dismisses BDO, appoints KPMG as auditor; remediated material weakness in 2022

## Summary
- Audit Committee dismissed BDO USA, LLP on March 8, 2023, and engaged KPMG LLP effective March 13, 2023.
- BDO reports on 2022 and 2021 financials contained no adverse opinion or modification.
- BDO's 2021 internal control report had adverse opinion due to material weakness from Consensus Cloud spin-off; weakness remediated by Q4 2022.
- No disagreements or reportable events between company and BDO on accounting matters.
- No prior consultations with KPMG on accounting principles or disagreements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001084048-23-000015
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ZD
- cik: 0001084048
- company_name: ZIFF DAVIS, INC.
- filed_at: 2023-03-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404823000015/0001084048-23-000015-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404823000015/jcom-20230308.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001084048-23-000015.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  ZIFF DAVIS, INC. engaged KPMG LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: KPMG LLP
  source text: on March 8, 2023, the Audit Committee approved the engagement of KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) as the Company’s new independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404823000015/0001084048-23-000015-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  ZIFF DAVIS, INC. dismissed BDO USA, LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: BDO USA, LLP
  - Successor: KPMG LLP
  source text: On March 8, 2023, the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Ziff Davis, Inc. (the “Company”) dismissed BDO USA, LLP (“BDO”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1084048/000108404823000015/0001084048-23-000015-index.htm

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