Corporate Citizenship Reporting

Our 2010–2011 Corporate Citizenship Report, “Our Journey Forward,” details the impact we made across each of the five pillars of our corporate citizenship reporting strategy: Corporate Governance, Skills to Succeed, Environment, Our People and Supply Chain. The report explores our global corporate citizenship goals, progress and challenges during fiscal 2010 and 2011 (ended August 31, 2010 and 2011) unless otherwise noted. We publish a Corporate Citizenship Report every two years, with supplemental updates in interim years.

Read the Corporate Citizenship Report

Since publishing our 2008–2009 Corporate Citizenship Report, we have taken steps to formalize and strengthen our reporting approach.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

We use GRI G3 Guidelines as a foundation for our reporting approach and self-declared our 2010–2011 Corporate Citizenship Report and our 2013 UNGC Communication on Progress at Application Level B, as checked by GRI. Additionally, we are a member of GRI’s Organizational Stakeholder Program, a network of more than 600 organizations from over more than 60 countries, committed to advancing sustainability reporting.

View Accenture's GRI index

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)

We continue to be transparent in reporting our environmental performance, responding to CDP annually—specifically, to its Investor Program since 2007 and its Supply Chain Program since 2009. In 2012, we were recognized by CDP's S&P 500 Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index, which represents the top 10 percent of companies in terms of carbon disclosure. We received a disclosure score of 93, out of 100, the same as in 2011.

Read our 2012 CDP report

Performance Metrics

A number of Accenture teams recommend the performance metrics and goals provided in our 2010–2011 Corporate Citizenship Report and our 2013 UNGC Communication on Progress. We vet the information with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership, to ensure it provides a meaningful and balanced representation of Accenture’s non-financial performance.

Our reported carbon data is prepared using methods based on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, the most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify and manage greenhouse gas emissions. Accenture is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development—one of the founding partners of the GHG Protocol.

Additionally, we have expanded and matured our performance management systems. These global tools provide a single database for efficient tracking and monitoring of our activities. They also provide timely and accurate detail and analysis that enable us to monitor and track progress against our corporate citizenship objectives.

Further, as part of Accenture’s global ISO 14001 approach, our Environment Management System (EMS) is audited and certified annually by BSI Management Systems.

We have been a signatory to the 10 principles of the UNGC since 2008 and are one of the 50 inaugural members of the UNGC LEAD program, which outlines actions through which businesses around the world can achieve greater sustainability. Additionally, we support UN Women, which works for the empowerment of women and girls and, in fiscal 2010, we signed the UNGC’s Women’s Empowerment Principles CEO Statement of Support, which helps the private sector promote gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and community.

These commitments align well with the UNGC’s purpose, Accenture’s core values and the five pillars of our global corporate citizenship reporting strategy: Corporate Governance, Skills to Succeed, Environment, Our People and Supply Chain.

Accenture’s 2013 Communication on Progress to the UNGC serves as our fourth report and documents our progress against the 10 principles of the UNGC and our journey as a member of UNGC LEAD. Through this report we highlight our global corporate citizenship goals, progress and challenges during fiscal 2012 (September 1, 2011-August 31, 2012), unless otherwise noted, and since we published our 2010-2011 Corporate Citizenship Report, “Our Journey Forward.”

In 2010, we also published a Supplemental Report on Principle 10 [PDF, 661KB] based on the United Nations guidance on Anticorruption Reporting that Accenture helped shape through the UNGC Taskforce on Principle 10. Accenture's fight against corruption is deeply ingrained in our core values of Integrity and Stewardship and in how we do business every day, everywhere in the world.

Read Accenture's 2013 UNGC Communication on Progress
[PDF, 1MB]

Read more about our progress toward addressing the 10 principles in our latest UNGC Index

Read Accenture's 2011 UNGC Communication on Progress
[PDF, 770KB]

Fostering a dialogue with key stakeholders is an important part of our reporting process.

Accenture is committed to engaging internal and external stakeholders in discussions regarding our journey, our progress and our performance in an effort to continually improve our non-financial reporting.

We maintain regular communication with our clients, employees, suppliers, and nonprofit partners through informal discussions, surveys, and our corporate citizenship mailbox to solicit feedback and stay abreast of stakeholder expectations. In fact, our surveys have shown that the vast majority of employees tell us that they expect Accenture to be a committed corporate citizen, and our clients regularly ask for information about our initiatives in this area.

For our 2010-2011 Corporate Citizenship Report we convened a multi-stakeholder panel to review a detailed outline of the content, to help validate our reporting prioritization and share feedback about the goals and metrics we have established and on which we report. We plan to continue to do this every two years in line with our Corporate Citizenship Report schedule.

Read more about our stakeholder engagement process for our 2010–2011 Corporate Citizenship Report.

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