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Accenture 360° Value
Reporting Experience
Every day, the people of Accenture embrace change and create value for all our stakeholders, in every part of the world—we call it 360° value.
Our 360° Value Reporting Experience captures how we deliver this unique value across six vital dimensions: Sustainability, Talent, Inclusion & Diversity, Client, Experience and Financial. Here you can find all our reporting and data—a comprehensive view of our financial and environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures, and our goals, progress and performance for each.
I invite you to explore our latest report and discover why creating 360° value is at the heart of our business. You will see the value we bring—and the change we make—in every direction.

Julie Sweet
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
Explore 360° value
Sustainability
One of the greatest forces of change since the digital revolution is here.
See the ways we’re sustainably driving new value and growth.
Talent
Making the best even better—investing in and caring for our 738,000 people.
Learn how we’re supporting our talent and advancing careers globally.
Inclusion & Diversity
Creating our culture of equality creates opportunity everywhere.
Discover how ensuring everyone belongs is delivering 360˚ value.
Client
Understanding issues, anticipating needs, investing in solutions:
Discover why 99 of our top 100 clients have been with us for more than a decade.
Experience
Sharing time, talent and tech through volunteering and innovating.
Explore the value of making a difference for our clients, people, partners and communities.
Financial
Better results mean better 360˚ value for all our stakeholders.
Learn how we’ve achieved records across all financial metrics in FY23.
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Environment
Achieve net-zero emissions by 2025
Our commitments to the leading standard-setting bodies on climate issues provide external validation for our carbon targets and guide the continuing evolution of our environmental commitments.
Science-Based Target
In 2018, we set a target approved by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi), a collaboration among CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Our goal is to meet our science-based target by the end of 2025.
Our goal is to reduce our absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 11%.
Our Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reduced by 91%,
surpassing our goal of a 65% absolute reduction against our 2016 baseline.
In fiscal 2022,
our total emissions decreased by 68% from our 2016 baseline,
surpassing one aspect of our 2025 target.
Total emissions per unit of revenue reduced by 82%,
surpassing our goal of reducing Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions per unit of revenue intensity by 40% from our baseline in 2016.
Building on our long-standing commitment to reduce our emissions—and reflecting our progress and increased ambitions—we are setting a new science-based target aligned to 2030, with a base year of 2019. This new target has been submitted to the Science Based Targets initiative for approval.
UNGC Business Ambition for 1.5° Pledge
In alignment with the Paris Climate Agreement, we pledged and joined other leading
companies to do our part to keep global warming below 1.5° Celsius.
We are focusing first on actual reductions across our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
Our environmental sustainability management is particularly focused on addressing climate change. Our most significant aspects relate to indirect emissions from Scope 2 electricity usage and Scope 3 emissions from business travel and purchased goods and services. Through continuous innovation, we are scaling solutions to make real, lasting change.
Footnotes
-->Renewable Electricity
97% renewable electricity
in our locations.
100% renewable electricity
by the end of 2023.
Footnotes
- Prior years have been restated due to a change in methodology for Scope 3 emissions. CO2 emissions related to Office Electricity reflect a market-based (MBM) accounting approach which includes the impact of renewable electricity contracts and residual mix factors. Accenture's carbon emissions for fiscal 2022 have been reviewed by an independent third-party accountant. Refer to the Independent Accountants' Review report for more information.
- Beginning in FY22, we updated the presentation to reflect the sources of our emissions by Scope. Prior periods have been adjusted to conform to the current year presentation.
Responsible travel
As a digital-first business, Accenture uses collaboration technology with agility and at scale to deliver for our clients.
We are equipping our people to make climate-smart travel decisions, such as providing access to an aviation carbon calculator that highlights actual emissions differences between flights, and have implemented an internal carbon price on travel. When travel is necessary, we promote carbon-efficient alternatives, such as rail, where available.
Our increased reliance on digital collaboration and ability to meet client needs without travel has led to more cost-efficient client delivery and reduced carbon emissions.
audio calls
video calls
Responsible buying
Just as the emissions we generate in the service of our clients impact their emissions, our own suppliers contribute to our emissions.
suppliers*
disclose their environmental targets and actions being taken to reduce emissions by the end of 2025 as we work to reduce our Scope 3 emissions
*Key suppliers are defined as vendors that represent a significant portion of our 2019 Scope 3 emissions.
Green IT
With our journey to cloud complete, we have the direct advantage of consuming the new, more sustainable capabilities from cloud providers.
We created a CO2 calculator prototype to measure an estimation of our public cloud energy consumption—and our devices and their usage patterns—so we can better understand reduction opportunities and make data-driven decisions.
To address remaining emissions, we are investing in nature-based carbon removal solutions.
Nature-based carbon removal
At the end of fiscal 2022, our nature-based carbon removal portfolio included projects in Indonesia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Our nature-based carbon removal solutions are generally expected to do the following—all while removing CO2 from the atmosphere:
- reforest land
- rebuild biodiversity
- make agriculture more sustainable
- help create green jobs
- allow natural ecosystems to rebound and thrive
Over the next 20 years, this program is expected to physically remove 13 million+ metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere.
Our projects will be registered under the SD VISta standard, where technically feasible, verifying SDG outcomes along withthe carbon removals.
At the end of fiscal 2022, our nature-based carbon removal portfolio included projects in:
Indonesia
Since agricultural lands throughout Indonesia are especially susceptible to climate change with floods and droughts causing land degradation, local farmers are one of the social groups most vulnerable to climate change.
Our project will reforest degraded land and engage local communities, cooperatives and farmers in sustainable agroforestry practices, including helping farmers plant trees on their own land. Ultimately, this will help contribute to stabilizing incomes, reducing poverty, increasing biodiversity and promoting community-based action, all while sequestering carbon.

United Kingdom
We are supporting projects that have converted marginal farmland to permanent woodland in Scotland and England. This is expected to lead to the creation of new and diversified, sustainable forests.
Beyond being an effective and cost-efficient natural climate solution, able to remove and store CO2 from the atmosphere, the U.K. woodlands offer diverse local benefits. Woodlands act as important natural water filters, help prevent floods, serve as essential habitats for wildlife and provide recreational grounds to improve the mental and physical health of local communities. Locally appropriate reforestation is valuable in enhancing biodiversity. Woodlands also provide support for employment through sustainably managed and harvested timber.

Philippines
Through our project, we will plant native giant bamboo on degraded land to sequester carbon and deliver economic growth.
Bamboo’s root systems absorb rainwater and help to bind the soil, reducing flooding and erosion risks while providing a natural filter to help restore river water quality.
At maturity, approximately 15-20% of the bamboo will be harvested annually and developed into high-quality, fully traceable building materials for international markets. Harvesting the mature clumps does not harm the plant; in fact, it spurs growth and increases sequestration.
This bamboo project will not only help remove carbon from the atmosphere, but it will also help to diversify incomes, reduce poverty levels and increase local biodiversity.

United States
In the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, a carbon project has been established to restore degraded agricultural lands back to their original and highly beneficial forest ecosystem. The project is designed to incentivize landowners to replant and permanently maintain forests due to financial incentives such as carbon credit sales, wood products and recreational/conservation services.
By design, this project expedites tree growth, accelerates CO2 sequestration, improves tree quality and survivability, and establishes quality wildlife habitats. Together with partners, our support of this project will have lasting positive impacts on the forests, surrounding communities and our global climate.

Move to zero waste
To move towards zero waste, we have committed to:
Reuse or recycle 100% of our e-waste, such as computers and servers, as well as all our office furniture, by the end of 2025
During fiscal 2022, we reused or recycled 99% of our e-waste relating to computers and workstations. We continue our efforts to reuse or recycle other e-waste such as monitors and servers.
We extended our asset tracking system to include our furniture assets—this allows more comprehensive management, including refurbishment and reuse to extend the life cycle of our furniture assets.
Eliminate single-use plastics in our locations. We continue to advance our programs in this area, pivoting to purchasing reusable and plastic-free items in our locations around the world.
Plan for water risk
To promote business continuity and resilience due to climate change-related risks, we are planning to mitigate the potential impacts of water risk by the end of 2025:
To safeguard our people and operations, we are developing plans to reduce the impact of flooding, drought and water scarcity on our business and our people in high-risk areas.
We proactively analyze our water risk using the World Resources Institute Aqueduct tool.
Although Accenture is not a water-intensive company, we minimize our use of water wherever feasible, including responsible use, reuse, management and discharge across our office portfolio. We are particularly conscious of our locations in water-stressed areas.
Investing in a low-carbon future
To unlock shared value for both business and society, we are committed to investing in a low-carbon future.
Sustainable aviation fuel
As a signatory of the World Economic Forum’s Clean Skies for Tomorrow sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) pledge, which includes an aviation industry goal of flying on 10% sustainable aviation fuel by 2030, we are committed to purchasing SAF with our partners and only doing so from socially and ethically beneficial sources.
Nature and biodiversity
Accenture is committed to contributing to a nature-positive future with our people, clients, suppliers and our broader ecosystem.
We are taking action for nature through our goals on climate, waste and water, including supporting biodiversity through initiatives such as our nature-based carbon removals.
Our direct impact on nature is low, due to our location footprint being comprised largely of leased office space in urban areas.
Planting trees to celebrate our people
We are planting 674,000 trees
in support of our overall commitment to sustainability, and to recognize the importance of each of our people around the world—one to represent each person at Accenture at the time of our announcement in December 2021.
So far, more than 350,000 of our trees
have been planted in Canada, Denmark, India, Ireland, Malawi, New Zealand, South Africa and Thailand.
The trees will eventually be planted in 14 countries
across six continents, in regions where our people live and work.
Environmental Responsibility Policy
Reducing our environmental impact is built into our Code of Business Ethics and our core values, specifically Stewardship.
These inform our Environmental Responsibility Policy, which was established in 2007 and is reviewed annually. Industry-wide external certifications, such as ISO® 14001, demonstrate our commitment to running our business responsibly and sustainably, and to integrating environmental practices into our operations.
Accenture’s Environment Management System is ISO® 14001-certified globally.
Goals & progress: path to net-zero
UNGC Business
Ambition for 1.5° Pledge
In alignment with the Paris Climate Agreement, we joined other leading companies and
pledged to do our part to keep global warming below 1.5° Celsius.
Meet our science-based target by 2025
Achieved 68% reduction in total emissions from our 2016 baseline,
surpassing our 2025 target to reduce absolute greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 11%.
Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions reduced by 91%,
surpassing our goal of a 65% absolute reduction against our 2016 baseline.
Total emissions per unit of revenue reduced by 82%,
surpassing our goal of reducing Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions per unit of revenue intensity by 40% against our 2016 baseline.
Net-zero emissions by 2025
Focus first on actual reductions across our Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions:
Achieved 97% renewable electricity
toward our goal of 100% renewable electricity by the end of 2023.
68% of our key suppliers* disclosed targets and 75% disclosed actions
toward our requirement that 90% of our key suppliers disclose their environmental targets and actions to reduce emissions by the end of 2025.
Investing in nature-based carbon removals ,
expected to remove an estimated 13+ million metric tons of carbon over the next 20 years to address remaining emissions.
*Key suppliers are defined as vendors that represent a significant portion of our 2019 Scope 3 emissions.
Human rights
Accenture global human rights statement
Our commitment
Accenture has been a signatory to the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) since 2008.
As stated in our Code of Business Ethics (COBE), we seek to align to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We therefore focus our human rights efforts on those areas that are most relevant to our business and operations in terms of potential human rights impacts. We also recognize that our clients and other stakeholders increasingly seek visibility into our human rights practices and policies.
We continue to review our human rights efforts, as well as best practices in the marketplace, to assess how we can further strengthen our commitments. In cases where it is unclear how to apply the law in a way that is consistent with our human rights principles, we are guided by our core values and COBE to support and respect the principles of internationally recognized human rights.
We also adhere to relevant international instruments and documents, including the International Labour Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, in addition to the UN Guiding Principles.
Our human rights governance
We recognize that support and respect for human rights is an integral part of our sustainability commitments.
Our ESG steering committee has responsibility across all operational sustainability topics, including human rights governance and strategic decision-making. This committee is chaired by our Senior Managing Director and Executive Director – Corporate Services & Sustainability and Business Operations.
Our human rights priorities
We focus our human rights efforts on areas most relevant to our business and operations in terms of potential human rights impacts:
Diversity and equal opportunity
Supply chain
Health, safety and security
Data privacy
Employment conditions and working practices
Anticorruption
Human rights and our supply chain
Because of the global scale and diversity of our business, we prioritize our supply chain due diligence efforts by focusing on areas that align with our priorities; areas where we can appropriately make the most impact; and areas of heightened concern or in higher-risk geographies.
We recognize the importance of assessing potential risks to rightsholders. We continually review, adapt and incorporate human rights due diligence across our enterprise risk management systems and legal compliance processes, in addition to across our supply chain.
Our relationships with our suppliers help us amplify our human rights commitment. Our Supplier Standards of Conduct, (SSoC) which supplements our COBE, sets out the standards and practices that Accenture suppliers are required to uphold or make an equivalent commitment. In turn, Accenture expects our suppliers to apply our SSoC to their own suppliers.
We work to be thoughtful and targeted in how we select and engage our suppliers, particularly in relation to higher-risk sectors and countries, and as our business evolves. For example, we work with a third-party specialist to help prepare our annual Conflict Minerals Report by reviewing our supply chain for products that contain 3TG minerals (tin, tungsten, tantalum or gold).
We are committed to doing business ethically and legally, and we seek to leverage our global buying power to advance human rights.
We continue to invest in new technology and processes to help us have greater visibility into the ESG performance of our suppliers.
We are proud of the launch of our Sustainable Procurement Hub (The Hub), which we are rolling out globally. This new technology platform will enhance and provide greater transparency from our direct suppliers about their own human rights policies, due diligence and inclusive practices.
The Hub supports how we make ethical purchasing decisions, onboard our suppliers and assess their ESG performance. It is also a vital part of our compliance with supply chain due diligence requirements, including Germany’s Supply Chain Act and Norway’s Transparency Act.
Raising concerns
We encourage our people, suppliers and subcontractors to raise ethical and legal concerns
including potential human rights issues, and we provide a range of secure channels for them to do so confidentially, and anonymously where allowed by law.
We provide a mechanism to enable our suppliers' employees to speak up about legal or ethical concerns, including slavery and human trafficking. Employees of Accenture suppliers may report concerns or violations (anonymously, where permitted by local law) through the Accenture Business Ethics Helpline.
Anyone with an ethical or human rights concern about Accenture’s supply chains or organization can contact the helpline by phone or online:
- A free phone number—+1 312 737 8262 (or in India, +1 888 276 6226; access code 000-117)—is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Online inquiries can be submitted to our Business Ethics Helpline website.
- All queries are handled by an independent team confidentially—and, where allowed by law, anonymously.
Whether internal or external, we treat all concerns seriously and in strict confidence. We protect anyone who raises, in good faith, a concern about a human rights issue or who assists us, or a law enforcement authority, by providing information to address such a concern.
Living wage
Accenture continues to drive the adoption of a living wage with our suppliers around the world.
Our Supplier Standards of Conduct strongly encourages our suppliers to pay a living wage (or higher) to people who provide services directly to our company and/or our clients.
Modern slavery, child labor and human trafficking
Our long-standing commitment to human rights includes eliminating modern slavery, child labor and human trafficking in our supply chains.
Given the nature of our business and supply chains, and the risk assessments we have undertaken to date, we believe the risk of modern slavery, child labor and human trafficking in our supply chains is low.
However, we are not complacent and frequently review how we can improve and evolve in response to changing circumstances and our evolving business.
Our Modern Slavery Transparency Statement provides more information about our efforts. While this statement is required by law in the United Kingdom and Australia, it also covers our commitment beyond these jurisdictions.
Conflict minerals
Accenture’s Supplier Inclusion & Sustainability team has a dedicated focus on conflict minerals in our supply chain.
Given the recent evolution of our Industry X business into hardware manufacturing, this work is a vital part of how we address modern slavery across our global supply chain. For more information, see our Conflict Minerals Report.
Eradicating human trafficking
Accenture is leveraging the power of technology and private and public sector partnerships to end human trafficking in our lifetime.
A growing internal community of practice, executive sponsors, global partners and leading technology services and practitioners are finding ways to discover, describe, create, scale and sustain solutions to bring an end to human trafficking.
Watch these short video clips, Be the Change: Human + Machine Fighting for a World Free of Human Trafficking, that highlight conversations from a diverse panel of experts addressing how they, their organizations and their communities have joined in on this fight.
Consider how you can join in to end human trafficking within your own area of influence.
Supply chain
Procurement Plus
Procurement Plus, our overarching approach, shapes how we work with suppliers to promote sustainability.
Beyond transactional procurement, Procurement Plus addresses four thematic pillars to advance responsible buying:
Environment
Human rights
Supplier inclusion and diversity
The future of work
This approach informs every aspect of our supply chain, building stronger partnerships based on ethical behaviors, transparency, agility and inclusivity.
Responsible procurement
Our Procurement Plus buying program influences key initiatives such as our award-winning Supplier Inclusion & Sustainability Program.
We are committed to driving responsible buying practices for ourselves and for the wider marketplace.
Our ethical procurement strategy
As we continue to build supply chains that are more sustainable and inclusive, we recognize the need for an ethical procurement strategy that is reflective of our core values and our Code of Business Ethics.
Our Supplier Standards of Conduct reflects our support of the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)—and we have continued to lead by example in upholding these principles since we signed the UNGC in 2008.
Payment certainty
We realize the economic certainty that prompt payments can provide a supplier, whether a FORTUNE 500 company or a SME. In the United Kingdom, we are a signatory to the voluntary Prompt Payment Code, which requires a continual focus on ensuring that we pay our suppliers on time, within the payment terms agreed.
We consistently make more than 95% of our U.K. payments within 60 days, as required by the code. Our Payment on Time Centre of Excellence and technology investment drives continuous improvements in this area. We are proud to be leaders in shifting the payment culture to be more efficient and fairer.
Driving supplier sustainability
In our drive for responsible buying excellence, we work continuously to adopt sustainable practices and are continually improving our supplier and contractor management processes.
Promoting supplier engagement
We actively work toward increasing the number of suppliers reporting their sustainability performance—
for example, the percentage of suppliers that report emissions reduction targets and actions or regularly assess their own supply chains.
Our Sustainable Procurement Hub is being used in over 30 countries
with further deployments and program enhancements planned in fiscal 2023.
We have utilized the Hub to conduct 3,000+ sustainability assessments
to better understand our suppliers’ ESG performance.
Carbon disclosure
Since 2010, we have invited select suppliers to respond to CDP’s supply chain self-assessment questionnaire.
As of December 1, 2022, 68% of key suppliers* disclosed their targets and 75% disclosed the actions they are taking,
up from 58% and 60% as of December 1, 2021, respectively.
As part of our goal to reach net-zero by the end of 2025, we set an ambitious target requiring
90% of our key suppliers* to disclose their environmental targets and actions being taken to reduce emissions by the end of 2025.
*Key suppliers are defined as vendors that represent a significant portion of our 2019 Scope 3 emissions.
The Sustainable Procurement Pledge
To further advance awareness of the positive impact procurement has on sustainability, Accenture has joined forces with The Sustainable Procurement Pledge (SPP).
The SPP is a global, nonprofit community of procurement professionals who aim to embed sustainability in their daily activities. SPP empowers and equips procurement professionals with access to the right knowledge, tools and behavior. Accenture is supporting these efforts and participating on the leadership and advisory panels.
Ethics & governance
Building a strong ethical culture
For the 16th consecutive year Accenture has been recognized on Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies list.
This recognition is a testament to our dedication to ethical leadership, compliance practices and sustainability.
We rely on our core values and our Code of Business Ethics (COBE) to not only inform our behavior but also help all our people make ethical choices and consider the full impact of their decisions.
Our Core Values
Our values shape our culture and define our character. We live our core values through individual behaviors that guide how we act and make decisions.
Client value
creation
Enabling clients to become high-performance businesses and creating long-term relationships by being responsive and relevant and by consistently delivering value.
One global
network
Leveraging the power of global insight, relationships, collaboration and learning to deliver exceptional service to clients wherever they do business.
Respect for the individual
Valuing diversity and unique contributions, fostering a trusting, open and inclusive environment and treating each person in a manner that reflects Accenture's values.
Best people
Attracting, developing and retaining the best talent for our business, challenging our people, demonstrating a "can-do" attitude and fostering a collaborative and supportive environment.
Integrity
Being ethically unyielding and honest and inspiring trust by saying what we mean, matching our behaviors to our words and taking responsibility for our actions.
Stewardship
Fulfilling our obligation of building a better, stronger and more durable company for future generations, protecting the Accenture brand, meeting our commitment to stakeholders, acting with an owner mentality, developing our people and helping improve communities and the global environment.
Ethics & Compliance
Training
Our goal is to maintain
90%+ employee completion rates for Ethics & Compliance training.
98% of our people,
including managing directors and our Global Management Committee members,
completed Ethics & Compliance training in fiscal 2022.
Anticorruption
Our Code of Business Ethics and related anticorruption policies, which are both part of our global Ethics & Compliance program and human rights efforts, require our people, business partners and business intermediaries (and suppliers through our Supplier Standards of Conduct) to comply with anticorruption laws everywhere we do business, including:
- U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)
- Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Convention on Combating Bribery of Public Officials in International Business Transactions
- United Nations Convention Against Corruption
- U.K. Bribery Act
- Other applicable anticorruption laws.
Reporting concerns and transparency
100% of concerns reported
to HR, Legal or the Accenture Business Ethics Helpline are investigated,
seeking to confirm the facts in a professional, methodical, thoughtful and balanced manner.
We offer our people many ways to raise a concern—through our leaders, anyone in Human Resources or Legal, and anonymously through our Accenture Business Ethics Helpline—and once they do, we make it clear what to expect.
We encourage and empower our people to speak up safely and confidently if they experience, see or become aware of any inappropriate behavior, including any form of disrespect, harassment, racism, discrimination or retaliation—or have any concerns about unethical or illegal behavior. And we have zero tolerance for retaliation.
Guiding our people’s behaviors
The first fundamental behavior in our Code of Business Ethics is “Make Your Conduct Count.”
We speak up about concerns, knowing Accenture never tolerates retaliation.
We are proud to be ambassadors of Accenture, and we act accordingly.
We ensure our personal interests and relationships do not create conflicts for Accenture.
We treat each other with respect.
We apply our principle of meritocracy when we make decisions about our people.
This framework creates a foundation for a positive, respectful and inclusive work environment that can inspire our people; reflects who we are and who we want to be as a company; and guides how we work with clients, our partners and each other.
Data privacy and information security
Safeguarding data is one of our most important responsibilities in building and maintaining trust, not only with our people, but also with our clients and others.
Beyond specific regional legal requirements, we apply strict data privacy and security standards to all information, everywhere. All our people have a personal responsibility to practice effective and responsible data management in accordance with our policies, including our Data Privacy Policy and procedures, our Binding Corporate Rules, as well as new and changing global regulations and jurisprudence.
This responsibility serves as a cornerstone of all we do. The Audit Committee of our Board continues to have oversight of our information technology risk exposures, including cybersecurity, data privacy and data security.
While many of our people have returned to
in-office spaces, others continue to work in remote and hybrid work environments.
This complex work model, partnered with potential business risks associated with ongoing geopolitical tensions, reinforces the need for a proactive, cyber-resilient approach to keep data safe across our business, our people and our clients. For example:
- We adhere to the highest and strictest information protection and privacy standards for handling and protecting personal data, as evidenced by our global certifications for Information Security (ISO® 27001:2013) and Data Privacy (ISO® 27701:2019). These certifications acknowledge that Accenture complies with the highest, strictest standards for handling and protecting personal data everywhere, and demonstrates accountability. We were the first global organization to be ISO® 27701-certified by the British Standards Institution (BSI) globally, across both our Enterprise and Client Service Business.
- We work hard to uphold global data protection and privacy requirements, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data privacy laws in countries where we do business.
- Our Enterprise and Client Data Protection programs define the stewardship of Accenture and client information. They define our management processes and controls, in accordance with relevant information protection and privacy laws. BSI has rated Accenture as highest for all U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at the Adaptive (Tier 4) implementation-level maturity for our Global Enterprise Services and Client Data Protection Program. Periodic independent assessments by BSI continue for maintenance and re-certification purposes.
Responsible AI
At Accenture, we are acutely sensitive to our role in innovating responsibly and consider Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies one of our highest ESG priorities. As AI decisions increasingly influence and impact people’s lives, the responsibility of enterprises to manage the potential ethical and sociotechnical implications of AI adoption also grows.
We have defined four pillars of Responsible AI based on what we’ve learned from implementing our solutions with clients:
Principles and governance
Define and articulate a Responsible AI mission and principles while establishing a transparent governance structure across the organization that builds confidence and trust in AI technologies.
Risk, policy and control
Strengthen compliance with current laws and regulations while monitoring future ones, develop policies to mitigate risk, and operationalize those policies through a risk management framework with regular reporting and monitoring.
Technology and enablers
Develop tools and techniques to support principles such as fairness, explainability, robustness, traceability and privacy, and build them into AI systems and platforms.
Culture and training
Empower leadership to elevate Responsible AI as a critical business imperative and provide training to enable all employees to have a clear understanding of Responsible AI principles and criteria for success.
Corporate governance: practices and policies
We have a history of strong corporate governance and believe that good governance is critical to achieving long-term shareholder value.
We are committed to governance practices and policies that serve the long-term interests of Accenture and our stakeholders.
Our practices and policies
The following list summarizes some highlights of our corporate governance practices and policies:
- Annual election of directors
- 100% independent Board committees
- Shareholders holding 10% or more of our outstanding share capital have the right to convene a special meeting
- 9 of our 10 directors are independent
- Strong independent Lead Director, elected by the independent directors
- Annual Board, committee and individual director evaluations and self-assessments
- Active shareholder engagement
- Proxy access right
- Regular executive sessions, where independent directors meet without management present
- Robust director selection process resulting in a diverse and international Board in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, experience, perspectives, skills and tenure
- Policy on political contributions and lobbying
- Board takes active role in Board succession planning and is committed to Board refreshment
- Active Board oversight of strategy, risk management and environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters
- Committee oversight of ESG performance, disclosure, strategies, goals, objectives, risks and opportunities, as well as strategies related to our people, including pay equity, inclusion and diversity, leadership succession and risks
- Board diversity policy to actively seek out women and underrepresented candidates
- Director overboarding policy limiting service to three other public companies or two other public companies if the director is a public company chief executive officer
- Formalized committee oversight to cover political, lobbying and other grassroots advocacy activities and related policies and practices
Oversight of ESG
At Accenture, responsibility for ESG matters starts at the top, with our Board actively overseeing our ESG strategies and progress in meeting our ESG-related commitments, and cascades throughout the business.
As part of this, we have implemented a clear and comprehensive governance structure designed to help us achieve our goals and reflect our objectives throughout the organization while guiding our strategic approach.
Business continuity
Our approach to managing disruptions is based on years of experience, preparation and adapting the way we manage and deliver services.
Our business resilience strategy supports how we operate as a company, starting with our global client base, underpinned by internal functions and technology, and supported by the collaborations of our third-party ecosystem.
Board diversity
of our ten directors:
Board committees
chaired by women
50% of committees
Significant board refreshment
3
New directors
over past 5 years
Board committees chaired by racially and ethnically diverse directors*
75% of committees
Age distribution
63
Average age of directors
Age range: 55-68
*Racial and ethnic diversity is based on self-reported EEO-1 categories.
Board tenure
Sustainability Services and partnerships
Sustainability Services
Accenture has identified sustainability as one of the five key forces of change that companies must harness to lead in the next decade.
Sustainability is a priority in what we do for our clients—and how we operate our own business.
We continue to expand and evolve our portfolio of Sustainability Services to meet the changing needs of our clients and support the imperative to act on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.
As consumers, employees, business partners, regulators and investors demand that companies move from commitment to action, we believe every business must be a sustainable business—a growth engine for new markets, new products and new services.
Creating and evolving Sustainability Services
Drawing across all parts of our business—Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Song (formerly Interactive) and Operations—and collaborating with our partners, we help our clients reinvent their businesses at scale, creating business value and sustainable impact for all stakeholders.
To advance our clients toward their sustainability goals, we offer a full suite of Sustainability Services:
Sustainability Strategy
Shaping our clients’ business strategies to create value and impact on sustainability in their core businesses across environmental, social and governance issues.
Net Zero Transitions
Helping clients with solutions to reduce carbon emissions—whether from buildings, transport, energy systems or cities—while driving social and economic benefits.
Sustainable Value Chain
Embedding sustainability requirements into every stage of the value chain to build more transparent, circular and decarbonized supply chains.
Sustainable Technology
Enabling organizations to not only use technology more sustainably, but also use and scale technology as a vehicle for being more sustainable.
Sustainability Measurement, Analytics and Performance
Implementing sustainability data, decision-making and performance metrics across the organization to effectively measure business value and sustainable impact.
Sustainable Leadership and Organization
Helping business leaders to build sustainability into everything they do, creating intelligent organizations that are sustainable at their core.
Sustainable Customer Experience and Brand
Helping clients convert their customers’ intentions into new behaviors by creating sustainable customer experiences while shifting perceptions about a brand’s commitment to sustainability.
Creating value and impact
Our Sustainability Services portfolio is continually evolving to meet the changing needs of our clients. Our extensive cross-industry expertise and a robust partner ecosystem are core to the solutions we deliver. For example:
Financial Services
We helped Sabadell build a centralized sustainability data repository according to European taxonomy, covering business units needs and regulatory reports.
Petrochemicals
We helped Braskem, a multinational petrochemical company, develop a decarbonization program.
Industrial
Our strategy is helping a multinational steel manufacturing company in its decarbonization initiative in its plants in Europe and Canada.
Manufacturing
We are helping Kubota, a leading agricultural equipment company, reduce CO2 emissions and introduce circular water and waste solutions.
Utilities
We are helping EDF, a multinational energy company, bring low-carbon energy to more than 6 million U.K. homes through a total enterprise reinvention program.
Energy
We helped a Latin American energy company develop a targeted roadmap to improve energy efficiency and CO2 emissions.
Working toward embedding sustainability in everything we do
As part of delivering 360⁰ value, we continue to embed sustainability into our work with clients and into our own solutions—with a goal to create meaningful business value and sustainable impact that can transform organizations and industries for a net-zero future.
As we help our clients create their own sustainable futures, we are transforming our business to be sustainability-led, including:
Applying green software principles
Transforming supply chains to consider circularity
Advancing Responsible AI by applying practical, measurable metrics and methodologies
Building and engaging diverse teams and perspectives
This is all part of our goal to embed sustainability into everything we do and with everyone we work with to create business value and sustainable impact, enabled by technology and human ingenuity.
Making learning about sustainability a priority
From our Global Management Committee to all our people, we are embedding a sustainability mindset throughout our company.
Our Sustainability Quotient (SQ) company-wide learning program enables our people to understand and consider how our work can deliver more sustainable outcomes and drive change in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Our sustainability training provides self-paced opportunities for learners to explore the SDGs and Accenture’s focus, building understanding about the importance of sustainability in today’s context. As of August 31, 2022, nearly 395,000 of our people have taken sustainability awareness-level training.
The SQ training features expert-curated content from Accenture leaders around the world. This training received a Gold Brandon Hall 2022 Excellence Award for Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program.
Expanding capabilities through acquisitions and strategic investments
Through our ventures and acquisitions, we continue to expand our ecosystem to connect our clients with best-in-class emerging enterprise startups to unlock new opportunities for growth and sustainability innovation. Our recent sustainability acquisitions include:
- akzente
- Avieco
- Carbon Intelligence
- Fortitude Partners
- Greenfish
- Zestgroup
Through Accenture Ventures, we partner with and invest in growth-stage companies that create innovative enterprise technologies to help drive business value and sustainable impact, using an open innovation approach. Our recent sustainability investments include:
- ESG Book (formerly Arabesque S-Ray)
- Pixxel
- pulsESG
- Reactive Technologies
- SkyHive
Innovating with clients and partners
We lead with innovation to help our clients imagine and invent their futures as they transform their organizations to become more sustainable.
We bring together our capabilities across our organization to develop and deliver disruptive innovations at scale to help business leaders achieve their sustainability goals.
We anticipate market needs and deepen our impact by embedding sustainability innovation through technology, which is key to how we innovate with clients and partners.
Co-creating with clients
Accenture Innovation Centers deliver sustainability innovation for our clients by building and scaling solutions across technologies and industries.
Accenture Innovation Centers help clients quickly see the value of, and inform decisions about, the right digital solutions for their business, stakeholders and the environment.
Innovating with our ecosystem partners
Together with our technology partners, we are changing how organizations use technology to support responsible business operations and high value, more sustainable customer outcomes.
We have formed strategic sustainability partnerships with SAP, Salesforce and Microsoft, with whom we are co-creating differentiated offerings and assets to accelerate and scale our clients’ sustainability and innovation agendas.
Making a difference with strategic partners
For over 20 years, we have formed strategic partnerships with leading organizations
including the United Nations, the World Economic Forum and global nonprofit organizations to help achieve the United Nations SDGs and tackle climate change.
Our partnerships involve joint action to develop thought leadership, deliver programs, coordinate ecosystem action and support sustainable business transformation.
We also partner with highly visible and influential market forums and international organizations
on programs focused on key sustainability challenges and solutions.
Recent analyst recognition
Everest
Accenture has been recognized as a leader in the inaugural “Sustainability Enablement Technology Services PEAK Matrix Assessment 2022” report by industry analyst firm Everest Group.
We are an overall leader and ranked highest in the Vision & Capability dimension within the assessment that detailed profiles of 14 service providers and the integrated capabilities that they offer in the sustainability services ecosystem.
The report highlights our comprehensive Sustainability Services offering, including capabilities for net-zero transitions, sustainable value chain, sustainable technology, environmental, social and governance (ESG) measurement, analytics and performance, sustainable leadership and organization, and sustainable customer experience and brand. Learn more
IDC
Accenture has been positioned as a leader in the inaugural “IDC MarketScape: Europe, Middle East and Africa Service Providers for Energy Transition and New Business Models for Oil and Gas Companies 2022 Vendor Assessment.”
Several of our key strengths were highlighted, including end-to-end services—spanning strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations—and integrated service portfolio, supported by new energy research, innovation capabilities and energy-focused digital labs.
IDC MarketScape also recognized our ability to develop new service capabilities supporting energy transition initiatives, leveraging our broad partner ecosystem and cross-industry expertise. Learn more
Leading in research
We produce a variety of research, insights and reports across the ESG landscape. We also conduct timely topic-specific research to help us continually understand and better shape the evolving ESG landscape. For example, the United Nations Global Compact – Accenture CEO Study on Sustainability has provided the most comprehensive longitudinal study of CEOs’ changing attitudes about sustainability since 2007.
Other recent publications include:
Our thought leadership also extends to industry-specific research and reports including:
- Sustainability in automotive aftersales
- Aerospace sets sights on sustainability
- Sustainable lending: An action plan for banks
- New Energy Consumer: Transition on demand
- How investors view mining's new role as a champion of decarbonization
- Scaling ESG Solutions in Fashion
- Investing for Impact: ESG in private equity
- Decarbonizing energy: From A to Zero
We also co-author publications and reports including:
- Get Nature Positive (with the Council for Sustainable Business)
- The Net-Zero Industry Tracker (with the World Economic Forum)
- How China is decarbonizing the electricity supply for aluminium (with the World Economic Forum)
Community impact
Skills to Succeed
Through our global Skills to Succeed initiative, we collaborate with our partners to prepare people for employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.
In fiscal 2022, we equipped more than 1.6 million people worldwide with the skills to make substantive improvements to their lives, for a total of more than 7.5 million since 2009.
Approximately 98,000 people globally built skills through our Skills to Succeed Academy, a free, immersive online learning program, in fiscal 2022.
We already are realizing a future in which we see how critical technology skills are a given for jobs and careers. And we believe we have a responsibility to skill—and reskill—people in our communities. This responsibility also contributes to companies’ ability to find and nurture diverse talent and tomorrow’s innovators.
Nurturing the next generation
We are helping youth and students gain the digital skills needed to succeed.
Grok Academy’s DT Applied program
In collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Telstra and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, we are supporting Grok Academy’s DT Applied program in Australia.
Our goal is to help develop more than 18,000 students’ digital skills and fluency by the end of 2024.
Junior Achievement
equips more than 12 million young people each year with the skillset and mindset to build thriving communities.
The global NGO engaged Accenture Development Partnerships to define a strategy that accelerates digital education, cultivates partnerships, and empowers the underserved. We are also helping JA Worldwide operationalize these efforts in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States
to help expand its reach to more than 100 million students annually by 2050.
GirlCode
Increasing job readiness
We are helping GirlCode, a nonprofit organization in South Africa, empower girls and young women through coding bootcamps, workshops and hackathons to increase their job readiness.
Latin Code Week
Promoting STEM studies
We participated in Latin Code Week, a digital education initiative co-created by SAP and Junior Achievement Americas to promote STEM studies and careers for youths in Latin America. Our people mentored participants in a sustainability app challenge.
Preparing for a job or business venture
Supporting and skilling people to unlock their potential and drive positive social change.
Youth Business International
$5.25 million new grant will help an estimated 240,000 young adults ages 18-35.
AWS/re-Start
Building careers in cloud computing
Across India, we are collaborating with AWS through AWS/re-Start, a skills-development program, to help underemployed or unemployed individuals start careers in cloud computing.
Save the Children
$4.8 million new grant
focuses on investing in a green economy, promoting gender equality and social justice for youth, supporting youth-led advocacy to drive social and environmental change and leveraging technology for digital skilling.
Building work experience
Working with organizations to break down barriers to employment and expand job opportunities to motivated, high-potential underrepresented talent who traditionally have lacked access to the digital economy.
700+ high school and post-high school students
participated in our Skills to Succeed internship and Learning to Lead program in the United States, which provides early career exposure and work experience.
Innovating for society
As innovators, we leverage existing and emerging technologies to address critical challenges facing society and help build a more sustainable and inclusive world.
Dansk Blindesamfund
We are helping the Danish Association for the Blind explore how AI-enabled voice-activated assistants can help make life easier
for people who are visually impaired using digital AI assistants, natural language processing and integration of Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
Spanish
Red Cross
We supported the Spanish Red Cross in a 6-month pilot to build a digital reforestation platform,
focusing on capturing the digital representation of an existing forest and a digital reforestation training program.
Conservation International
We are helping Conservation International build a tool that will
allow Indigenous communities to process and manage Wildlife Insights data collected on their lands.
Gerando Falcões
18,000+ youths have learned about social inequities in Brazil’s poverty-stricken favela communities
through Favela X-The Game, developed by Accenture Song in support of Gerando Falcões, a Brazilian social justice movement.
The Inclusion Factory
We helped The Inclusion Factory in China develop an AI-powered computer vision approach that analyzes hand gestures and action sequences of workers to understand which steps have been completed and which steps are next.
These AI smarts were integrated into a 3D virtual environment so that feedback can be provided to workers in an intuitive way, empowering employees across a range of learning abilities to continuously remain productive despite dynamic and agile business demands.
T4 Education
We are collaborating with T4 Education on the World’s Best School Prize for Environmental Action.
The prize recognizes innovation in how educators run their organizations and in how they integrate sustainability into the core of what they teach, empowering the next generation to harness new technologies and innovative practices that tackle the global sustainability issues that impact us all.
Communities in crisis and refugees
We help welcome refugees in the communities where we work and live around the world, and we recognize how they enrich our communities through their courage, strength and talent. We partner with local and global organizations to help refugees establish new lives, gain meaningful employment and start businesses.
Welcome.US
The Welcome.US CEO Council is co-chaired by Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet and Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and aims to accelerate and scale private sector support for people seeking refuge.
$4+ million
in pro bono consulting services and cash donations
to support the strategic priorities of Welcome.US
Nearly 50,000
jobs available for newcomer job applicants
on the Welcome Employment Exchange in partnership with Manpower and Welcome.US.
Ukraine relief
We are helping meet the essential immediate and longer-term needs of Ukrainian refugees. Examples include:
Developing apps to meet
essential needs
We developed an app to help distribute insulin and other key supplies to Ukrainian children with diabetes.
Another app helps to identify resources for refugees in Slovakia and connects Slovakians with volunteer opportunities.
Partnering to deliver
food and aid
We partnered with the Confederation of British Industry to organize essential humanitarian food boxes for delivery to Ukraine.
Supporting long-term economic inclusion
We quickly mobilized to partner with job marketplace The Adecco Group to
support Ukrainian refugees looking to start a new career and to open a recruiting channel for new talent.
In Poland, we rapidly transformed our Carrots Academy for Women initiative into an
upskilling program to provide cybersecurity training to Ukrainian women refugees.
We are an anchor partner in the Sunflower Project—a Tent Partnership for Refugees initiative
to accelerate economic inclusion of Ukrainian refugee women across Europe through direct hiring, training and upskilling programs, mentoring and additional support.
We are helping YMCA Europe establish community hubs in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova and Slovakia to
help internally displaced people and refugees connect with local communities and resources, including access to safe and secure skill development and support.
The program is expected to provide more than 10,000 participants with holistic support.
In Poland, we are working with Upwardly Global to create a private sector coalition which aims to develop
new support systems and career advancement initiatives for Ukrainian women refugee job seekers.
Accenture donated
$5 million
for nonprofit relief organizations
working to help people in Ukraine and those who are being displaced.
Matched 100% of $1.75 million in donations from our people.
Accenture Development Partnerships
Accenture Development Partnerships (ADP) helps our clients—including leading NGOs, private foundations, public donor agencies and the private sector—address society's most critical challenges. Specifically, through its Inclusive Business offering, ADP collaborates with private sector clients to drive sustainable impact at scale to support their ESG goals.
For 20 years, ADP has led diverse work fostering partnerships, collective impact and social equity
to progress the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), improving lives around the world.
More than 270 engagements in approximately 80 countries in fiscal 2022.
ADP's recent work includes:
Facilitating the energy transition in Africa with Mandulis Energy
Uganda-based Mandulis Energy is on a digital transformation journey to optimize and expand its circular bioenergy model. The company converts agricultural waste purchased from refugee and emerging farmers into clean electricity and biogas, while the byproduct is turned into green charcoal briquettes for use in cement or fertilizer production.
Advancing data-driven inclusive global health
In partnership with Novartis Foundation, WHO and the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development’s Working Group on Virtual Health and Care, we explored how virtual technologies can help make healthcare accessible through inclusive policymaking and data-driven digitalization.
Launching a sustainability-first metaverse experience with H&M Foundation
Together with the H&M Foundation, we designed and launched a bespoke metaverse experience to educate and change the narrative on planet-positive fashion and inspire consumers to adopt a sustainability-first mindset.
Developing inclusive insurance solutions with Generali Group
We helped The Human Safety Net, the philanthropic arm of Generali Group, a global insurance and asset management company based in Italy, better serve young families and migrants by developing inclusive insurance solutions that solve for the “protection gap”—the difference between economic and insured losses—which hinders people from building economic resilience.
Supporting small retailers across Mexico
We collaborated with a major consumer packaged goods company, financial services organizations (fintechs and payment services providers), and NGOs focused on skills development to design a multi-stakeholder program that has the potential to support the needs of more than 1 million small retailers across Mexico with training, access to loans, digital payments and energy efficiency assets to drive entrepreneurial success.
Corporate giving
Accenture contributions by type
*Accenture Foundations refers to independent charitable organizations that bear the Accenture name.
Total Accenture and Accenture Foundations contributions in 2022
$151,903
US $ (in thousands)
Accenture contributions by region

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Net-zero by 2025
Our goal is to achieve net-zero emissions by the end of 2025
Powering change
97% renewable electricity in our locations toward our goal of 100% by the end of 2023
Toward less carbon, naturally
Plan to remove 13 million+ metric tons of CO2 using nature-based carbon removals over the next 20 years
Human Rights
Championing human rights
Committed to supporting and respecting internationally proclaimed human rights
Leveraging our scale
Our relationships with our suppliers help us amplify our human rights commitment
Living wage
We strongly encourage our suppliers to pay a living wage (or higher) to people who provide services directly to our company and/or our clients
Supply Chain
Better together
Requiring 90% of our key suppliers to disclose their emissions targets by 2025
Supplier diversity
Graduated 217 suppliers from our Global Diverse Supplier Development Program
Buying better
3,000+ supplier sustainability assessments
Ethics and Governance
16 years of recognition
On Ethisphere’s World’s Most Ethical Companies list since 2008
Ethical standards
98% of our people completed Ethics & Compliance training in fiscal 2022
Anticorruption
Clear policies for our people, partners and intermediaries
Sustainability Services and Partnership
Net-zero know-how
CO2 reduction solutions tailored for clients across industries
Added value
Embedding sustainability into every stage of the value chain
ESG embedded
Shaping client strategies to create value with sustainability
Community Impact
Skills to succeed
1.6M+ people worldwide equipped with the skills to make improvements to their lives
Partnering to welcome refugees
Over $4 million in pro bono consulting services and cash donations and nearly 50,000 job openings shared with nonprofit Welcome.US
Set to start up
Partnering with YBI to train an estimated 240,000 young entrepreneurs to start, grow and sustain businesses
Investing in our people
Continuous learning
$1.1B invested in
continuous learning
and professional development of our people
Training hours
40+ million
training hours.
27% increase in training hours delivered in FY22 over FY21.
Average of approximately 61 hours of training per person.
Award-winning development programs
The programs include job-specific, digital and industry skills training through:
- 24/7 learning created by Accenture experts and informed by neuroscience-based principles;
- leading providers of digital learning content;
- key industry certifications; and
- partnerships with prestigious universities around the globe.
Across Accenture, people at all levels have opportunities to build leadership capabilities and grow their careers.
Technology Quotient
469,000+
of our people
had demonstrated knowledge in at least 8 of the 12 current TQ topics as of August 31, 2022.
597,000
of our people
have participated in this program as of August 31, 2022.
Skilling
8,000+ skills in our library
that our people can acquire, based on their work experience and through certifications and learning opportunities.
Skills data
for our people, enabling us to flexibly respond to shifting client needs while also recommending skill-specific training that aligns with an individual's interests.
Continuous recognition
We recognize our people throughout the year for who they are, what makes them unique and the valuable contributions they make through their work.
Approximately 157,000 promotions during fiscal 2022—a record
Our new social recognition tool has led to 4 recognition moments being given every minute since it was launched
Equal pay for equal work
Pay equity at Accenture means that our people receive pay that is fair and consistent when considering similarity of work, location and tenure at career level.
We conduct an annual pay equity review. As of our last review, which reflected annual pay changes effective December 1, 2022:
We have dollar-for-dollar, 100% pay equity for women compared to men in every country where we operate.*
By race and ethnicity, we have dollar-for-dollar, 100% pay equity in the U.S., the U.K. and South Africa.**
*Certain subsidiaries, including recent acquisitions, countries with de minimis headcount, temporary employees and interns were excluded from the analysis.
**The U.S., U.K. and South Africa are the locations where we currently have the data to use for this purpose.
Caring for our people
Care and compassion
As part of our commitment to creating a place where people can achieve their aspirations both professionally and personally, we take a holistic view of well-being.
Ukraine crisis response
Our commitment includes how we care for our people. In response to the Ukraine crisis, we introduced a range of support services for our people and their impacted families, along with their extended families who are located in Ukraine. This support included in-language:
Crisis helpline for emotional support
Telehealth support with access to physicians
Employee assistance helpline to help with settlement assistance and other needs
For our people in countries bordering Ukraine, as well as for our people and their extended families who have been impacted by the Ukraine conflict, we provided virtual support sessions focused on coping with trauma.
Health, safety and well-being first
All our people have access to employee assistance programs, public health systems, company-sponsored health programs and mental health and wellness programs, where relevant.
We have received
ISO® 45001 certification
We have received ISO® certification—a globally recognized standard for occupational health and safety—in countries including Australia, Brazil, India, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.
24/7 Global Watch program
Our Global Assistance and Protection team provides crisis management and security advice and assistance to our people. The team maintains a 24/7 Global Watch program to assist our people with security risks, health advice and local security alerts covering where they live, work and travel.
Mental health and wellness
We strive to create an environment and provide the tools, programs and practices for mental well-being. We continue working to help break the stigma surrounding mental health by fostering a workplace environment where people feel comfortable engaging in open, honest dialogue.
We also launched a comprehensive hub that provides all Accenture people—and their dependents—a central resource for all of our mental health and wellness offerings.
Mental Health Allies
Through our Mental Health Ally network, thousands of our people serve as ambassadors and advocates who help their colleagues facing mental health challenges find the support they may need.
Since fiscal 2020, 225,000 of our people have completed Thrive Global programs to learn skills to support mental resilience; how to build resilience and belonging; and nutritional strategies for cognitive health.
Foundational benefits standards
We are on a journey to offer a foundational set of benefits to all our people, regardless of where they live and work.
One of our goals is to provide the following level of benefits coverage—at a minimum—for all our people*:
LGBTIQ+ medical plans
As a means of fostering an inclusive environment for our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) people—and all other sexual orientations, gender identities or gender expressions—around the world, we offer:
Equal access to medical plans for our LGBTIQ+ people and their partners
through Accenture-sponsored medical plans, which are offered to 100% of our people where legally allowed or available in the market.
Coverage for transgender-inclusive health care benefits to 95% of our people
through Accenture-sponsored medical plans or government-provided plans, where legally allowed or available in the market.
Vacation
We offer all of our people a minimum of 15 days of paid vacation, inclusive of vacation, non-statutory holidays and additional paid time off.
Maternity leave
We strive to provide a minimum of 16 weeks paid maternity leave, or the equivalent paid time away, to all birth parents inclusive of dual parental benefits and social subsidies, where available.
This benefit is offered to more than 95% of our people.
Bereavement leave for miscarriage
We strive to provide a minimum of three days paid bereavement leave to our people who experience a miscarriage or have a partner who experiences a miscarriage.
This benefit is offered to more than 85% of our people, inclusive of statutory requirements.
*Excludes Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft that is majority-owned by Accenture, and recent acquisitions.
Shaping the future of work
We have built on what we learned during the COVID-19 pandemic—from our people, clients and partners—to embrace new ways of working at Accenture.
In fiscal 2022, we brought to life what we call omni-connected experiences—which level the playing field so everyone can participate fully, regardless of their physical location. Through these experiences, people are able to forge relationships, create both personal and business value and grow their careers. We strengthen human connection through our behaviors, digital tools, collaborations in our offices and the culture we create.
Our people and teams have embraced omni-connected ways of working, with 85% of our global survey respondents feeling empowered to work flexibly within their teams.
As people returned to working in person, they were welcomed back into safe, connected and collaborative office spaces.
Accenture Leadership Essentials
Our Leadership Essentials set the standard for what we expect from our people and enable us to successfully create 360° value, and include:
Always do the right thing,
in every decision and action.
Care deeply for all of our people
to help them achieve their aspirations, professionally and personally.
Lead with excellence, confidence and humility,
as demonstrated by being a learner, building great teams and being naturally collaborative.
Live our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity and equality,
as demonstrated by personal impact and overall results.
Exemplify client-centricity
and a commitment to client value creation.
Have the courage to change
and the ability to bring our people along the journey.
Act as a true partner to each other,
our clients, our ecosystem partners and our communities—committed to shared success.
Actively innovate—
looking across Accenture at what we are doing for clients and externally to partners, competitors, startups, clients, academia and analysts—to learn, respectfully challenge our assumptions and apply the innovation, and cultivate and reward our people for doing the same.
Collaborating to create
innovative career pathways
Latin America
We worked with START, a technology training program focused on employability for low-income individuals in the communities where we operate. In FY22, over 900 people were skilled through START, and 113 were employed by Accenture.
Philippines
We are working with Passerelles Numeriques to train disadvantaged young people in our communities through a two-and-a-half-year program that helps them prepare for technology jobs. In FY22, there were 193 graduates—all of whom are now employed, 9 of them by Accenture.
North America
Through our North America apprenticeship program, since 2016 we have hired, trained, coached and provided career opportunities for untapped talent and people who are reskilling because their jobs are at risk of disruption by technology. In FY22, we exceeded our goal for apprenticeship hires to make up 20% of our entry-level hiring in North America.
United Kingdom
In FY22, our U.K. apprenticeship program had nearly 200 participants, a 93% increase over FY21. At our London cohorts over the last three years, over 30% of the participants were Black, nearly 60% were women and nearly 70% were from low socio-economic backgrounds.

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Lifelong learners
$1.1 billion invested in continuous learning and professional development
40+ million training hours
27% increase in training time since last year
100% pay equity
Dollar-for-dollar pay equity for men and women in every country where we operate and by race and ethnicity in locations where we currently have the data available to use for this purpose—U.S., U.K., South Africa
Caring for our people
One of the world’s best
FORTUNE and Great Place to Work® World’s Best Workplaces™ in 2022
On the side of well-being
Thousands of our people serve as Mental Health Allies supporting and helping colleagues
Ukraine crisis response
For our people and their impacted extended families in Ukraine and the region
Creating new opportunities
Opening doors in North America
More than 20% of FY22 entry-level hires were apprentices
U.K. growth in apprenticeships
Nearly 200 apprentices in the program in FY22, a 93% increase in participation over the prior year
Embedding I&D
in everything we do
We expect leaders at all levels to help create and sustain a culture of equality where everyone can achieve their professional and personal aspirations.
As a business priority, inclusion and diversity at Accenture starts at the top with our Chair and CEO and our Board of Directors.
Our Board demonstrates this commitment with 50% of our directors racially and ethnically diverse* and 50% women, including our Chair and CEO Julie Sweet.
Building belonging
We offer a wide variety of resources to support our people and to increase understanding of our inclusive culture. For instance,
“Thriving Together: Building Resilience & Belonging,” a behavior change program focused on building resilience and belonging, has been completed by more than 71,000 of our people in FY22.
Inclusion by design
Working to eliminate discrimination in employment and applying our principle of meritocracy when we make decisions about how our people advance are fundamental parts of our commitment. We are building inclusion into how we work and how we deliver value to our clients by creating and sustaining a company where:
We embed inclusion into the fabric
of our organization and client work
through our work on accessibility, Responsible Artificial Intelligence and inclusive design.
Our leaders are role models for inclusive behavior.
Our people are equipped to be active allies and lead change.
Our policies, practices and processes across the employee life cycle aim to
create a level playing field for equal opportunities.
*For the purposes of this report, racial and ethnic diversity of our directors is based on self-reported EEO-1 categories. Please see our 2022 Proxy Statement for further information.
Achieving gender equality
47% women
in our workforce
Goals and progress
Footnotes
- Accenture's gender and race and ethnicity equality data as of December 1, 2022 has been reviewed by an independent third-party accountant. Refer to the Independent Accountants' Review report for more information. Metrics do not include Avanade, a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft that is majority-owned by Accenture.
- “Executives” comprises our managers, senior managers, associate directors, managing directors, senior managing directors and members of our Global Management Committee.
- “Managing Directors” comprises our managing directors, senior managing directors and members of our Global Management Committee.
- New Hires reflect employees hired during the twelve months ended December 1, 2022, and the eleven months ended December 1, 2021. In 2020, Accenture reported new hires for the twelve months ending December 31.
Gender equality
Total number of executive officers
9
Total number of women executive officers
4
Global Management
Committee
25%
women
representation
Race and ethnicity
Goals and progress
Race and ethnicity in the U.S.
2025 goals (set Sept. 1, 2020)
Progress (as of Dec. 1, 2022)
African American and Black colleagues from 9% to 12%
African American and Black managing directors from 2.8% to 4.4%
Hispanic American and Latinx colleagues from 9.5% to 13%
Hispanic American and Latinx managing directors from 3.5% to 4.7%
12.1% of our U.S. workforce are African American and Black colleagues
4.2% of our U.S. managing directors are African American and Black colleagues
11.1% of our U.S. workforce are Hispanic American and Latinx colleagues
4.5% of our U.S. managing directors are Hispanic American and Latinx colleagues
Race and ethnicity in the U.K.
2025 goals (set Oct. 1, 2020)
Progress (as of Dec. 1, 2022)
Black* colleagues from 4% to 7%
More than double the number of Black* managing directors to 16 or more
5.1% of our U.K. workforce are Black* colleagues
12 of our U.K. managing directors are Black* colleagues
Race and ethnicity in South Africa
2025 goals (set Oct. 1, 2020)
Progress (as of Dec. 1, 2022)
African Black colleagues from 45% to 68%
Coloured** colleagues from 6% to 10%
African Black, Coloured** and Indian managing directors from 39% to 70%
44.4% of our South African workforce are African Black colleagues
9.8% of our South African workforce are Coloured** colleagues
55.5% of our South African managing directors are African Black, Coloured** and Indian colleagues
Footnotes
*Black includes Black/Black British colleagues who have self-identified as being of African and Caribbean heritage or with dual heritage of White and Black African or White and Black Caribbean.
**Coloured is a multiracial ethnic group native to Southern Africa who have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region, including Khoisan, Bantu, Afrikaner, Whites, Austronesian, East Asian or South Asian.
Collaborating with communities
We are committed to identify a portfolio of specific opportunities to collaborate with our communities and other partners to promote equality, fight racism and bigotry and create more opportunities for employment and advancement.
United States
Our Chair and CEO Julie Sweet is Board Co-Chair of the New York Jobs CEO Council, which helps to place low-income and diverse New Yorkers into high-paying, family-sustaining wage jobs.
In 2021, we launched the Black Founders Development program, an initiative to support Black entrepreneurs.
We are a founding partner of OneTen, a coalition of leaders working to connect Black talent with career opportunities that do not require a four-year degree.
Europe
We are a partner with Business for Inclusive Growth, a global CEO-led coalition of major companies fighting against inequalities of income and opportunity, with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development as its strategic partner, and co-created recommendations to drive racial and ethnic inclusion.
United Kingdom
We co-created MOBOLISE, a digital recruitment platform to connect Black talent with career opportunities in the United Kingdom's creative and technology fields by enabling access to job opportunities, upskilling, mentoring and networking.
In fiscal 2022, through our Empowering Black Futures learning series, we continued to engage, inspire and motivate students of Black heritage to develop their employability and skills via a series of workshops.
South Africa
We are a partner with Quirky 30, a nonprofit focused on bringing in-demand tech skills and careers support to impoverished communities.
We are a funding partner of Mentec Foundation, which funds industry-specific skilling and job creation programs.
Training to combat racism
Continued mandatory training in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, Ireland, U.K., Australia, New Zealand and Europe—completed by 98% of our people in those locations, with more locations to follow—on identifying, speaking up and reporting racism.
Disability inclusion
Fostering disability inclusion
We strive to ensure that our people with disabilities have access to the latest technology, tools and training to succeed in a barrier-free workplace.
Our Accommodation Support Tool enables our people with disabilities to easily access assistive technology, flexible work arrangements, sign language interpreters, screen readers and more.
This innovative tool, designed to make the request process easy, private and personalized, is available in 43 countries.
Our award-winning Abilities Unleashed disability inclusion leadership development program provides opportunities for our people with disabilities to feel empowered, plan their career journeys, build their network and collaborate across the company.
34 Accessibility Centers
launched around the world, with more to come.
Approximately 35,000 advocates in the
Disability Inclusion Champion Network
Application accessibility
We are working to build accessibility practices into everything we do and to help provide our clients with the tools and the knowledge they need to implement those practices themselves.
We have been on a journey to make interactions with our most heavily used, internally developed, enterprise applications as accessible as possible for our people. Our journey will continue to focus on embedding accessibility requirements into every stage of the enterprise IT life cycle.
Persons with disabilities
More than 11,500 who have self-identified as of December 1, 2022.
Neurodiversity inclusion
Our neurodiversity employee network has 900+ members.
LGBTIQ+ inclusion
119,000+
LGBTIQ+ Allies
in all countries where we operate.
LGBTIQ+
Leaders Learning
650+ high-potential LGBTIQ+ people have participated since 2018 in this training to access the information, tools and support to continue to build their careers and develop into LGBTIQ+ role models and leaders.
Pride at Accenture
90+ employee networks.
Same-sex partner benefits
Equal access to medical plans for our LGBTIQ+ people and their partners through Accenture-sponsored medical plans is offered to 100% of our people where legally allowed or available in the market.*
Transgender-inclusive health care benefits
Coverage for transgender-inclusive health care is accessible to 95% of our people through Accenture-sponsored medical plans or government-provided plans, where legally allowed or available in the market.*
*Excludes recently acquired entities.
Cross-cultural diversity
Our employees are given the resources and training they need to collaborate and work effectively across cultures.
This year, we recognized our more than 20,000 champions and trainers for their work and passion in this space.
We promote cross-cultural diversity throughout the year by profiling stories of our champions and trainers and local activities—
including observing World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development on May 21 and celebrating #NewYearsAcrossAccenture traditions from our people’s cultures and countries around the
globe.
Supplier Inclusion & Diversity
Supplier Inclusion & Sustainability Program
Our buying approach influences key initiatives such as our award-winning Supplier Inclusion & Sustainability Program, dedicated to promoting the inclusion of people who may be excluded from the labor market for physical, social or cultural reasons.
Our Supplier Inclusion & Sustainability Program is in 22 countries in fiscal 2022,
with additional countries to follow in the year ahead.
We continue to evolve this program with digitalization efforts, leveraging technology tools such as our Sustainable Procurement Hub to streamline activities such as supplier environmental, social and governance assessments.
Global Diverse Supplier
Development Program
Since 2006, we have brought our commitment to supplier inclusion and diversity to life through our Global Diverse Supplier Development Program (DSDP).
In fiscal 2021, we set a new DSDP goal to graduate 250 diverse suppliers by the end of fiscal 2023.
In fiscal 2022, we also launched DSDP in Australia.
By the end of fiscal 2022, a total of 217 had graduated.
Supporting diverse suppliers
For the first time since we have reported our diverse spending, we are sharing that Accenture now spends approximately $1 billion with diverse suppliers in North America (U.S. and Canada).
Spend with diverse suppliers—U.S.
U.S. diverse spend increased from 32% in fiscal 2021 to 47% in fiscal 2022.
Spend with diverse suppliers—Canada
Canadian spend with diverse suppliers increased from 25% in fiscal 2021 to 34% in fiscal 2022.
Spend with diverse suppliers—India
23% India diverse
supplier spend in fiscal 2022.
Spend with diverse suppliers—South Africa
Black-women-owned enterprises: 57%
Black-owned
suppliers: 61%
Black-owned
SMEs: 63+%
Collaboration with other organizations
We are proud to partner with organizations that represent minority-, ethnic- and women-owned businesses; the LGBTIQ+ community; persons with disabilities; veterans; refugees; and people living away from economic centers.
The breadth of the organizations that we collaborate with reflects our global reach, spanning from the U.S. to Europe, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Collaboration with other organizations, including:
Amotai
(New Zealand)
Canada’s LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce (CGLCC)
Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council
Disability:IN
European LGBTIQ Chamber of Commerce
Minority Supplier Development United Kingdom (MSDUK)
National LGBT Chamber of Commerce
National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC)
National Veteran-Owned Business Association (NaVOBA)
Out Britain (United Kingdom)
Scandinavian LGBT Chamber of Commerce (SGLCC)
South African Supplier Diversity Council
Supply Nation (Australia)
WEConnect International (Local collaborations in 18 countries)
Women Business Enterprises Canada
Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC)

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Inclusion & Diversity matters
We have zero tolerance for discrimination, bigotry and hate of any kind
I&D starts at the top
50% of our board of directors are racially and ethnically diverse, and 50% are women
Leading change
Ranked #1 on Refinitiv Diversity & Inclusion Index
Achieving gender equality
Gender equality accelerated
47%* women in our global workforce
*As of December 1, 2022.
Gender-balanced leadership
29%* of our managing directors are women, approaching our goal of 30% by 2025
Global recognition
Honored as the highest-scoring company on the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index
Race and ethnicity
Training to combat racism
98% completion in U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, with more locations to come
Creating opportunities
Founding partner of both OneTen and MOBOLISE—connecting Black talent with career opportunities
Investing for change
Increased community investments to support economic inclusion
Disability inclusion
Inclusive for all
Working to build accessibility practices into everything we do
Innovating together
Approximately 35,000 people in the Disability Inclusion Champion Network
Tools for thriving
34 Accessibility Centers around the world
LGBTIQ+ inclusion
A world of Allies
119,000+ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ+) Allies in all countries in which we operate
Inclusive
well-being
Equal access to medical plans for all our LGBTIQ+ people and their partners; and coverage for transgender-inclusive health care
Cross-cultural diversity
Driving under-standing
Our people are given the resources and training to collaborate and work effectively across cultures
Cross-cultural leadership
20,000+ champions and trainers around the globe
Sharing traditions
We promote cross-cultural diversity year-round
Supplier I&D
Mentoring diverse suppliers
217 graduates of our global Diverse Supplier Development Program
Leveraging our buying power
Accenture now spends approximately $1 billion with diverse suppliers in North America
Extending our footprint
Our Supplier Inclusion & Sustainability Program is in 22 countries
Creating value together
Growing client relationships
40+
industries
120+
countries around the world where we serve clients
9,000+
clients
More than 75% of the FORTUNE Global 500 are Accenture clients
Creating value for clients
We also help our clients use technology to drive enterprise-wide transformation and compressed transformations—bold programs on accelerated timeframes, often spanning multiple parts of the enterprise at the same time, including:
Building their digital core
Migrate to the cloud, integrate data and artificial intelligence, and embed security across the enterprise.
Accelerating revenue growth
Use technology and creativity to create more personalized connections, experiences and targeted sales at scale; leverage data and AI, transform content, supply chains and marketing and commerce models; and develop new digital services and business models.
Optimizing their operations
Accelerate digitization, access digital talent, reduce costs, transform engineering and manufacturing.
Our managed services have become increasingly strategic
as companies seek to move faster and look to our digital platforms and talent to support their key functions, as well as reduce costs.
Our integrated service teams meet client needs rapidly and at scale, backed by our network of more than 100 innovation hubs,
our technology expertise, ecosystem relationships and our global delivery capabilities, powered by one of the world’s largest networks of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations Centers.
Purpose, strategy and brand expression
To better define and communicate how we create value for our clients—as well as for our people, shareholders, partners and communities—we continue to build on the purpose, strategy and brand expression we introduced in fiscal 2021.
Purpose
Our purpose is “To deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity.” This is our unique reason for being that sets us apart and guides us; it captures the energy and inspiring nature of the work we do.
Strategy
The core of our growth strategy is delivering 360° value to our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Our strategy defines the areas in which we will drive growth, build differentiation via 360° value and enable our business to create that value every day.
Brand expression
This is how we dramatize and show the world the extraordinary things we do for clients today—and creates energy, excitement and momentum for everything we can do together tomorrow.
No. 26 on BrandZ's Most Valuable Global Brands,
a 28% increase to over $82 billion in brand value.
Five key forces of change
We believe that the companies that will lead in the next decade need to harness the five key forces of change we have identified—total enterprise reinvention, talent, sustainability, the metaverse continuum and the ongoing technology revolution.
We are investing and co-creating with clients and partners to lead in helping our clients thrive across these forces:
Total enterprise reinvention
as we believe every part of every business must be transformed by technology, data and AI, with new ways of working and engaging with customers, employees and partners, and new business models, products and services. We are helping clients build their digital core, optimize operations and accelerate growth.
Talent
as companies must be able to access great talent, be talent creators not just consumers, and unlock the potential of their people—from the ways they organize and work, to their culture, to their employee value proposition.
Sustainability
as consumers, employees, business partners, regulators and investors are demanding companies move from commitment to action—we believe every business must be a sustainable business.
The metaverse continuum
moving seamlessly between virtual and physical, which we believe will provide even greater possibilities in the next waves of digital transformation.
The ongoing technology revolution
from the rich innovation to come in the powerful technologies being used to transform companies today, to the new fields of the future, from quantum computing to science and space technology.
We believe that helping clients navigate these five key forces of change will, in turn, drive our growth.

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The scale of success
Serving 9,000+ clients in more than 120 countries across 40+ industries
Quality clients, quality business
More than 75% of the FORTUNE Global 500 are Accenture clients
Value-forward
Helping clients build their digital core, optimize operations and accelerate growth
Purpose, strategy and brand expression
Building on our strategy
Delivering 360° value to our clients and all stakeholders
A singular purpose
To deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity
Increasing brand value
No. 26 on BrandZ's Most Valuable Global Brands, a 28% increase to over $82 billion in brand value
Five key forces and change
Change partners
Investing and co-creating with clients and partners helps clients thrive
5 key forces driving change
Total enterprise reinvention, talent, sustainability, metaverse continuum, ongoing tech revolution
Future-forward
Helping clients navigate change drives our growth
People
Purpose and participation
We offer many ways to get involved, including local and global volunteering opportunities, both virtual and in person, in addition to wider opportunities to act for social and environmental impact.
Global volunteering
Offered across multiple geographies, our global volunteering efforts give our people the opportunity to make a difference at scale—often working virtually alongside colleagues from around the world.
Every Name Counts
As part of the Arolsen Archives’ Every Name Counts initiative, Accenture volunteers built an artificial intelligence (AI)-based solution
that uses optical character recognition and other advanced technologies to accelerate the indexing of the world’s largest archives dedicated to the victims of Nazi persecution.
Almost 2,000 Accenture people from more than 100 cities have participated in helping to keep names and stories alive.
Legal Access
Accenture legal professionals respond to urgent needs for pro bono service.
To date, we have supported almost 100 Afghan evacuees in the United States and completed more than 700 hours of legal research to support programs helping survivors of domestic violence, children deprived of liberty and LGBTIQ+ individuals seeking asylum. Our volunteers have contributed over 4,800 pro bono hours across 80 pro bono projects since the program began in 2020.
CoderDojo
Through CoderDojo, a volunteering platform that fosters creativity while opening students’ eyes to STEM careers. Accenture volunteers in seven countries helped young people participating in the Coolest Projects initiative,
a leading technology showcase for young people, explore Scratch, web, mobile apps, games and advanced programming to bring their tech-inspired ideas to life.
Local volunteering
We also recognize that our people want to contribute close to home and respond to needs in their local communities.
Senior Hackers
Our volunteers helped senior citizens in Spain learn how to use mobile devices and applications
through Senior Hackers events, where participants explored using tech to stay connected.
Green Edition, Empower Run 2022
In India, we mobilized teams of more than 8,400 volunteers to participate in the Green Edition of our Empower Run 2022.
For every 40,000 steps covered by each team, Accenture planted a mangrove tree, resulting in a total of 31,700 trees planted in the area of the Sundarbans.
Walking for truth and reconciliation
1,000 participants
$23,000+
6 Legacy spaces
Accenture people throughout Canada organized their first Walk for Wenjack event in partnership with the Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund (DWF). Indigenous and non-Indigenous people came together to remember the legacy of residential schools, which forcibly separated Indigenous children from their families and prohibited them from acknowledging their heritage, culture or language.
With close to 1,000 participants, the team raised more than $23,000 for the foundation, to continue the conversation that began with Chanie Wenjack’s story and to aid Canada’s collective reconciliation journey through a combination of awareness, education and action.
Accenture has also partnered with DWF to launch six Legacy Spaces in our offices throughout Canada by 2024. Legacy Spaces are safe, welcoming places dedicated to providing education and spreading awareness about Indigenous history and our journey of reconciliation.
Eco Action
Our ongoing Eco Action initiative helps our people nurture their passion for environmental sustainability.
120,000+ of our people were eco engaged across the globe this year,
participating in learning, volunteering, innovating and taking action to reduce their personal environmental footprints.
COP26
During COP26 we hosted multiple sessions to raise awareness, including an all-people Eco Action event to inspire our people to act for impact in a variety of ways. We hosted global volunteering sessions in support of Zooniverse and GLOBE Observer, the app of The GLOBE Program,
engaging volunteers across 34 countries.
Earth Day
On Earth Day, our people—and our partners at Microsoft and Avanade—collaborated on joint live events with Zooniverse in support of biodiversity, resulting in almost 9,000 classifications to advance understanding of penguins.
Local Eco Action events
throughout the year included more than 175 of our people in Australia and New Zealand helping nonprofit organizations plant more than 5,500 plants and trees.
Learning opportunities
We offer year-round learning opportunities such as monthly Eco Action Clubs, at which we discuss environmental topics and the corporate and individual actions to address them, hints and tips in Eco Smart Choices postcards, and our “Sustainability Quotient” courses.
Employee participation and contributions
Our people as innovators
Innovation is at the heart of how we serve our clients, and how we engage our people on sustainability issues.
Social
Innovators
15,000+ Accenture people participated in our Social Innovators initiative,
which includes the Sustainability Innovation Challenge, the Social Innovators Accelerator program and Social Innovation Learning opportunities.
Social Innovators Accelerator
360 innovators across 50+ projects
From connections and coaching to funding and execution, our year-round Social Innovators Accelerator is designed to implement ideas that address four priority areas: disaster response and humanitarian relief; jobs and skills; inclusion and diversity; and environmental challenges.
Sustainability Innovation Challenge
The Sustainability Innovation Challenge aims to harness and inspire the collective intelligence of our innovators worldwide to design solutions for some of the world’s greatest environmental and social issues.
In fiscal 2022, more than 1,400 ideas were submitted by 2,500 of our people.
At the Global Citizen Festival in September 2022, we announced we will invite students from schools around the world to join us in the 2023 Sustainability Innovation Challenge as we continue to support and invest in the next generation of thinkers and doers.
Social Innovation Learning
Across the globe, 1,000+ Accenture people participated in four social innovation learning sessions with global learning provider Hyper Island.
V360 Awards
Our internal V360 Awards celebrate Accenture teams that are innovating to deliver 360° value to our clients, company and community, and showcase how we embrace change and deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity.
This year, our people entered 1,360+ projects across three categories:
Client co-innovation:
co-creating with clients to deliver exceptional innovation and value.
Community:
living our Stewardship core value, leveraging innovation and driving value for the communities in which we work and live.
Company and people:
creating better experiences for our people and our organization as a whole, driving 360° value and distinguishing Accenture as an innovation leader.
Winning teams and their clients were celebrated in an event broadcast to all of Accenture from our global leadership meeting.
Clients
Our proven record as a trusted partner—to deliver experience that encompasses all aspects of 360° value creation—is at the heart of our strong client relationships.
Strong client relationships
Our enduring relationships with many of the world’s leading companies and governments, and a proven track record for delivering on large, complex programs that drive tangible value reflects the experience we build with our clients.
267 Diamond clients, up from 229 last fiscal year
70% of our new bookings are sole-sourced
99 of our top 100 clients have been with us for more than a decade
360° Value Meter
Delivering 360° value
for clients
We are focused on delivering 360° value, and helping our clients become the next and best versions of themselves.
To do this, we are using our 360° Value Meter framework with approximately 600 Accenture clients worldwide, up from over 300 a year ago, to monitor and measure the value we are creating together.
*Accenture's Custom dimension is referred to as Client
What our clients are saying
Siam Commercial Bank Public Company Limited
Our efforts to modernize our data & AI platform is yielding great business results. Over the years we have built an advanced capability that is highly competitive. Accenture has been a valuable partner throughout this journey. We look forward to continuing the journey toward a data-driven reinvention.”
Discover
If you have a problem and choose to keep it to yourself, it will inevitably become your problem. Share it, and it becomes our problem. It’s the old proverb, ‘If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.’ Together, with Accenture, Discover and Oracle, I’m pleased to say we did both.”
The Body Shop
The Body Shop have got some really massive ambitions, and now I really feel like we’ve got a technology platform and a partnership with Accenture to achieve them.”
Astellas
We were able to move to a full-cloud platform with the help of Accenture, which has extensive experience in implementing core platforms for global operations. The success of the project was due to Accenture’s ability to bring together a wide range of experts from around the world for a truly ‘one-team’ approach with Astellas. We can centralize data and make the best use of this technology to create a business platform that supports visualization and bold data-driven decision-making. In collaboration with Accenture and other internal and external partners, Astellas will continue to focus on creating innovations that contribute to the health of people around the world.”
Partners
Our ecosystem partnerships enable us to deliver distinctive business value to our clients, with industry analysts consistently rating us a leader across our technology offerings.
for 9/10 top ecosystem partners
249 partners
in our ecosystem
Partners
We have strong relationships with the world’s leading technology companies, as well as emerging startups,
which enable us to enhance our service offerings, augment our capabilities and deliver distinctive business value to our clients.
Our strong ecosystem relationships provide a significant competitive advantage, and we are a key partner of a broad range of technology providers including Adobe, Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, Blue Yonder, Cisco, Dell, Google, HPE, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Pegasystems, RedHat, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, VMWare, Workday and many others.
Partner awards
Our partners recognized the power of our relationships in delivering business value for our clients in fiscal 2022.
Oracle
Game Changer Tech Service Delivery Partner of the Year Award
Blue Yonder
Global Most Valuable Partner of the Year
Microsoft
Global SI Partner of the Year
Adobe
Global Digital Experience Solution Partner of the Year
SAP
Global SAP Pinnacle Award, Delivery Excellence
Salesforce
Four MuleSoft Partner of the Year Awards
(MuleSoft is a Salesforce company)
Google
Global Services Partner of the Year
Analyst recognition
Analysts acknowledged our success and the value we provide through inclusion in leadership rankings throughout the year.
AWS
Leader in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix® for system integrator capabilities on Amazon Web Services
Oracle
Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Oracle Cloud Apps Implementation Services Partners
ServiceNow
No. 1 in HFS top 10 ServiceNow Services report
Google
Leader in Everest Group PEAK Matrix® for Google Cloud Platform System Integrators
SAP
Gartner Magic Quadrant for SAP S/4HANA Application Services, Worldwide – Leader
Adobe
The Forrester Wave™: Global Adobe Services Partners
Partner feedback
Salesforce
The Salesforce and Accenture sustainability partnership has never been stronger. We share a commitment to leveraging our business as a platform for change and a history of jointly solving the toughest business challenges. Together, we help our joint customers embed sustainability into the core of their businesses, go net-zero faster and drive sustained growth. We are excited to continue working with Accenture to help our customers achieve value for all of their stakeholders.”
Microsoft
Our decades-long alliance with Accenture and Avanade is stronger than ever, and we continue to build on our collaboration to help customers overcome extraordinary disruption and lead their industries into the future.”

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Social Innovators
15,000+ of our people participated
Change agents
120,000+ of our people engaged in Eco Actions
Sustainability Innovation Challenge
Expanding to include student participants
Clients
Partner of choice
70% of our new bookings are sole-sourced
Lasting relationships
99 of our top 100 clients have been with us for more than a decade
Enduring relationships
267 Diamond clients, up from 229 last year
Partners
Stronger together
#1 partner for nine out of our top 10 ecosystem partners
Our competitive advantage
249 ecosystem partners, representing leading tech companies
Analyst recognition
Consistently rated as a leader for our technology offerings
FY22 financial performance
Revenues and new bookings
Outstanding performance with profitable growth at scale.
Total revenues
$61.6B
Record increase of 26% in local currency* and 22% in USD
New bookings
$71.7B
Book-to-bill 1.2
21% increase in USD
25% in local currency*
Geographic markets
(Revenues and growth in local currency*)
North America
$29.1B
Europe
$20.3B
Growth Markets
$12.2B
Industry groups
(Revenues and growth in local currency*)
Communications,
Media & Technology
Financial
Services
Health & Public
Service
Products
Resources
*Financial results “in local currency” are calculated by restating current-period activity into U.S. dollars using the comparable prior-year period’s foreign-currency exchange rates.
Profitability and capital allocation
Strong profitability and execution of our capital allocation strategy, with significant cash return for shareholders.
Diluted earnings per share
$10.71
A 17% increase from $9.16 in fiscal 2021, and a 22% increase from adjusted fiscal 2021 EPS of $8.80, which excluded $0.36 in gains on an investment.
Operating margin
15.2%
Returning cash to shareholders
Record free
cash flow
$8.8B
Free cash flow to net income ratio of 1.3
Total cash returned
$6.6B
Share repurchases
$4.1B
Cash dividends paid
$2.5B
$3.88 per share, a 10% increase
over prior-year dividends
Highlights of services and strategic priorities
Broad-based double-digit growth across services and strategic priorities.
Services
Approximate FY22 Revenues
Highlights of Strategic Priorities
Approximate FY22 Revenues (includes overlap)
*Updated definition in connection with our rebranding from Interactive to Song. Song revenues for FY21 would have been $14B.
Footnotes
Accenture discloses information about its Services and Strategic Priorities to provide additional insights into the company’s business. Revenues for Services and Strategic Priorities are approximate and may be modified to reflect periodic changes in definitions. Judgment is required to allocate revenues for client arrangements with multiple offerings into individual Services. Revenues for Strategic Priorities overlap so revenues for the same client arrangement may be included in multiple Strategic Priorities. For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2022 fourth quarter news release issued on September 22, 2022 and available at investor.accenture.com
Ongoing investments
We continue to invest to create 360º value across our business and people including in the following key areas during fiscal 2022.
$3.4B
deployed across
38 acquisitions
that are well-balanced across markets,
services and strategic priorities.
$1.1B invested in training and development of our people
to provide meaningful opportunities to grow and learn, while allowing us to quickly pivot to changing markets and client needs.
$1.1B invested in R&D in our assets, platforms and industry and functional solutions,
to extend our capabilities in new and emerging technologies including blockchain, robotics, 5G, edge computing, metaverse and quantum computing.
Q2 FY23 financial performance
Revenues and new bookings
Total revenues
$15.8B
Increase of 9% in local currency* and 5% in USD
New bookings
$22.1B
Book-to-bill 1.4
17% increase in local currency*
13% increase in USD
Geographic markets
(Revenues and growth in local currency*)
$7.4B
North America
$5.3B
Europe
$3.1B
Growth Markets
Industry groups
(Revenues and growth in local currency*)
Communications,
Media & Technology
Financial
Services
Health & Public
Service
Products
Resources
*Financial results “in local currency” are calculated by restating current period activity into U.S. dollars using the comparable prior-year period’s foreign currency exchange rates.
For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2023 second quarter news release issued on March 23, 2023, which accompanies this information and is available at investor.accenture.com.
For the 3 months ended February 28, 2023
Profitability and capital allocation
EPS (Adjusted)
$2.69
*After adjusting Q2 FY23 GAAP EPS of $2.39 to
exclude business optimization costs of $0.30
per share. On a GAAP basis, including these
costs, Q2 FY23 EPS decreased 6%.
Operating margin (Adjusted)
13.8%
*After adjusting Q2 FY23 GAAP operating margin of 12.3% to exclude business optimization costs of 150 bps. On a GAAP basis, including these costs, Q2 FY23 EPS decreased 140 bps.
Returning cash to shareholders
Free cash flow
$2.2B
Share repurchases
$1.1B
Dividends paid
$708M
Quarterly cash dividend declared in March 2023
$1.12 per share
Increase of $0.15 per share or 15% over the quarterly dividend rate in fiscal year 2022
For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2023 second quarter news release issued on March 23, 2023, which accompanies this information and is available at investor.accenture.com.
For the 3 months ended February 28, 2023
Highlights of services and strategic priorities
Services
Revenue growth in local currency
Highlights of Strategic Priorities
Revenue growth in local currency
(includes overlap)
Footnotes
Accenture discloses information about its Services and Strategic Priorities to provide additional insights into the company’s business. Revenues for Services and Strategic Priorities are approximate and may be modified to reflect periodic changes in definitions. Judgment is required to allocate revenues for client arrangements with multiple offerings into individual Services. Revenues for Strategic Priorities overlap so revenues for the same client arrangement may be included in multiple Strategic Priorities. For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2023 second quarter news release issued on March 23, 2023, which accompanies this information and is available at investor.accenture.com
For the 3 months ended February 28, 2023
Q2 YTD FY23 financial performance
Revenues and new bookings
Total revenues
$31.6B
Increase of 12% in local currency* and 5% in USD
New bookings
$38.3B
Book-to-bill 1.2
12% increase in local currency*
5% increase in USD
Geographic markets
(Revenues and growth in local currency*)
$15.0B
North America
$10.4B
Europe
$6.2B
Growth Markets
Industry groups
(Revenues and growth in local currency*)
Communications,
Media & Technology
Financial
Services
Health & Public
Service
Products
Resources
*Financial results “in local currency” are calculated by restating current period activity into U.S. dollars using the comparable prior-year period’s foreign currency exchange rates.
For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2023 second quarter news release issued on March 23, 2023, which accompanies this information and is available at investor.accenture.com.
For the 6 months ended February 28, 2023
Profitability and capital allocation
EPS (Adjusted)
$5.77
*After adjusting Q2 YTD FY23 GAAP EPS of $5.47
to exclude business optimization costs of $0.30
per share. On a GAAP basis, including these
costs, Q2 YTD FY23 EPS increased 3%.
Operating margin (Adjusted)
15.2%
*After adjusting Q2 YTD FY23 GAAP operating margin of 14.4% to exclude business optimization costs of 80 bps. On a GAAP basis, including these costs, Q2 YTD FY23 GAAP operating margin decreased 60 bps.
Returning cash to shareholders
Free cash flow
$2.6B
Share repurchases
$2.5B
Dividends paid
$1.4B
Cash dividends
$2.24 per share
Increase of 15% over the dividend rate in fiscal year 2022
For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2023 second quarter news release issued on March 23, 2023, which accompanies this information and is available at investor.accenture.com.
For the 6 months ended February 28, 2023
Highlights of services and strategic priorities
Services
Revenue growth in local currency
Highlights of Strategic Priorities
Revenue growth in local currency
(includes overlap)
Footnotes
Accenture discloses information about its Services and Strategic Priorities to provide additional insights into the company’s business. Revenues for Services and Strategic Priorities are approximate and may be modified to reflect periodic changes in definitions. Judgment is required to allocate revenues for client arrangements with multiple offerings into individual Services. Revenues for Strategic Priorities overlap so revenues for the same client arrangement may be included in multiple Strategic Priorities. For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2023 second quarter news release issued on March 23, 2023, which accompanies this information and is available at investor.accenture.com
For the 6 months ended February 28, 2023

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exploreFY2022 financial performance
$61.6B in total revenues
a 26% increase in local currency
$71.7B in new bookings
a 1.2 book-to-bill
$8.8B in free cash flow
a 1.3 FCF to net income ratio
For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2022 fourth quarter news release issued on September 22, 2022, which accompanies this information and is available at investor.accenture.com.
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$15.8B in total revenues
a 9% increase in
local currency
$22.1B in
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a 1.4 book-to-bill
$2.69 EPS (Adjusted)
a 6% increase*
*After adjusting Q2 FY23 GAAP EPS of $2.39 to exclude business optimization costs of $0.30 per share. On a GAAP basis, including these costs, Q2 FY23 EPS decreased 6%.
For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2023 second quarter news release issued on March 23, 2023, which accompanies this information and is available at investor.accenture.com.
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$31.6B in total revenues
a 12% increase in
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$38.3B in
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$5.77 EPS (Adjusted)
an 8% increase*
*After adjusting Q2 YTD FY23 GAAP EPS of $5.47 to exclude business optimization costs of $0.30 per share. On a GAAP basis, including these costs, Q2 YTD FY23 EPS increased 3%.
For full financial data, non-GAAP financial disclosure and cautionary language regarding forward-looking statements, please refer to Accenture’s fiscal year 2023 second quarter news release issued on March 23, 2023, which accompanies this information and is available at investor.accenture.com.
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