Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index

Accenture uses the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G4 Guidelines as a foundation for our reporting approach and we self-declare our 2016 Corporate Citizenship Report to be in accordance with the Core option of the G4 guidelines.

For more information about these guidelines, please visit the GRI website. The top two rows of our reporting prioritization matrix (see page 9 of our 2016 Corporate Citizenship Report) represent the most important aspects of our non-financial reporting, and serve as the basis for the topics included in our GRI Index.

Instructions – Below is the GRI Index corresponding to Accenture's 2016 Corporate Citizenship Report. Click on the "+" below to view the detailed indicators.

Indicator Description

Fiscal 2016 Response & Reference

General Standard Disclosures

Strategy & Analysis +

Organizational Profile +


G4-3: Name of the organization	Accenture Fact Sheet
G4-4: Primary brands, products, and services	Company Overview
G4-5: Location of the organization’s headquarters	2016 10-K (Cover)
G4-6: Number of countries where the organization operates, and names of countries where either the organization has significant operations or that are specifically relevant to the sustainability topics covered	Accenture Fact Sheet Accenture Locations
G4-7: Nature of ownership and legal form	2016 10-K (Cover)

G4-8: Markets served (including geographic breakdown, sectors served and types of customers and beneficiaries)	Accenture Fact Sheet Industries
G4-9: Scale of the reporting organization	Accenture Fact Sheet
G4-10: Total number of employees by employment contract and gender	Performance Data Table At the global level, we report diversity statistics by gender only.
G4-11: Percentage of total employees covered by collective bargaining agreements	We do not report on the percentage of employees who are covered by collective bargaining agreements (or who are covered by other forms of employee representation).
G4-12: Organization’s supply chain	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Supply Chain (Our Strategy and Approach)
G4-13: Significant changes during the reporting period regarding the organization’s size, structure	2016 10-K (Page F-17, F-18)
G4-14: Precautionary approach or principle is addressed by the organization	Accenture’s Enterprise Risk Management program results in an annual priority list of Company-level risks. To determine these risks, we a) identify material operational, strategic and financial risks; b) evaluate the potential impact, the likelihood of occurrence and the effectiveness of the Company’s existing risk mitigation strategy; and c) develop plans to monitor, manage and mitigate these risks. We prioritize environment-specific risks based on factors such as materiality of operational risks (e.g. the need to reduce travel-related GHG emissions), and importance to clients, employees and the Company as a whole.
G4-15: Externally developed economic, environmental and social charters, principles or other initiatives to which the organization subscribes or which it endorses	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Ethics & Governance (Human Rights); Community Impact (Innovating for Social Change); Environment (Enabling Client and Supplier Sustainability); Our People (Advancing an Inclusive, Diverse Environment); Supply Chain (Driving Supplier Sustainability; Advancing Supplier Inclusion and Diversity) United Nations Global Compact Index
G4-16: Organization’s memberships in associations (such as industry associations) of national and international advocacy	Trade Associations

Reporting Practice +


G4-17: Entities included in the organization’s consolidated financial statements or equivalent documents	2016 10-K (Page 7, Exhibit 21.1)
G4-18: Process for defining the report content and the aspect boundaries	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Overview (Stakeholder Engagement and Reporting Prioritization) Performance Data (Accenture Corporate Citizenship Performance Data Table)
G4-19: Material aspects identified in the process for defining report content	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Overview (Stakeholder Engagement and Reporting Prioritization)
G4-20: Aspects boundaries within the organization	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Overview (Stakeholder Engagement and Reporting Prioritization)
G4-21: Aspects boundaries outside the organization	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Overview (Stakeholder Engagement and Reporting Prioritization)
G4-22: Effect of any restatements of information provided in previous reports, and the reasons for such restatements	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Performance Data (Accenture Corporate Citizenship Performance Data Table)
G4-23: Significant changes from previous reporting periods in the scope and aspect boundaries	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Performance Data (Accenture Corporate Citizenship Performance Data Table)
G4-28: Reporting period for information provided	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Overview (Our Reporting Approach)
G4-29: Date of most recent previous report	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Overview (Our Reporting Approach)
G4-30: Reporting cycle (such as annual, biennial)	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Overview (Our Reporting Approach)
G4-31: Contact point for questions regarding the report or its contents	2016 Corporate Citizenship Report: Overview (About Accenture)
G4-32: Report the ‘in accordance’ option the organization has chosen and location of the GRI content index	We self-declare this report to be in accordance with the Core option of the G4 guidelines. 2016 GRI Index
G4-33: Report the organization’s policy and current practice with regard to seeking external assurance for the report	We have not sought external assurance for this report. However, an independent third party provided a limited assurance review of our corporate GHG emissions inventory in accordance with the ISO 14064-3 International Standard, and issued a positive assurance statement for 100% of Accenture’s fiscal 2016 Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions as well as a small subset of Scope 3 emissions.