Chief accounting officer bails on a company shortly after taking charge.

It is always telling when a chief accounting officer bails on a company shortly after taking charge.

The streaming giant has always had issues with their accounting practices and the new guy bailed after a few months because of all their shadiness.

Netflix

Ken Barker – resigned three months after joining

Netflix Hires PayPal Vet Jeffrey Karbowski As Chief Accounting Officer, Replacing Short-Tenured Predecessor

Netflix has hired PayPal veteran Jeffrey Karbowski, 45, as VP and Chief Accounting Officer.

The staffing move follows a somewhat unusual sequence in 2022. Karbowski’s predecessor was Ken Barker, who joined the company after a 19-year run at video game maker Electronic Arts, only to resign last September after only three months in the job. An SEC filing at the time said the departure was due to personal reasons.

Karbowski will report to Netflix CFO Spencer Neumann, who had been heading up accounting pending a search.

The newly minted exec held various posts at PayPal since joining the payment tech firm in 2013. He was most recently VP, Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining PayPal, Karbowski served as director of accounting at Microsoft-owned Skype and a senior manager at accounting firm Ernst & Young. – Source