Financial Highlights - Accenture

About Accenture
Accenture
Accenture is the world's leading management
and technology services organization. Through
its network of businesses approach—in which the
company enhances its consulting and outsourcing
expertise through alliances, affiliated companies
and other capabilities—Accenture delivers innovations
that help clients across all industries
quickly realize their visions.
With more than 75,000 people in 47 countries,
Accenture can quickly mobilize its broad and deep
global resources to accelerate results for clients.
The company has extensive experience in 18
industry groups in key business areas, including
customer relationship management, supply chain
management, business strategy, technology and
outsourcing. Accenture also leverages its affiliates,
alliances and venture capital activities to help drive
innovative solutions. Strong relationships within
this network of businesses extend Accenture's
knowledge of emerging business models and
products, enabling the company to provide its
clients with the best possible tools, technologies
and capabilities. Accenture uses these resources to
serve as a catalyst, helping clients anticipate and
gain value from business and technology change.
Recognizing the important role of business in
society, Accenture supports the active involvement
of its people in community volunteer initiatives
all around the world. The company also is
involved in major projects where it can leverage its
capabilities in cooperation with other businesses,
governments and organizations to make a positive
contribution to the communities in which it operates.
For example, Accenture is co-chairing the
World Economic Forum task force on the digital
divide and is taking a lead role in the G8 Digital
Opportunities task force. Both initiatives seek to
ensure that far more of the world's people are
given the chance to benefit from the combination
of entrepreneurship and new technology to create
a virtuous circle of economic development.
Accenture’s home page is www.accenture.com.
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Accenture Technology Ventures
Accenture Technology Ventures helps talented
entrepreneurs build companies that can transform
entire industries, create new markets and ultimately
generate superior economic returns. Its
portfolio includes innovative companies that are
building key components of tomorrow's commerce
infrastructure. Launched in December 1999,
Accenture Technology Ventures is the venture
capital unit of Accenture. Its home page is
www.accenturetechventures.com.
Forward-looking Statements and Certain Factors that May Affect Our
Business—We have included in this report and in our Annual Report on
Form 10-K filed with the SEC, forward-looking statements relating to
our operations that are based on our current expectations, estimates
and projections. Words such as “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “projects,”
“believes,” “estimates” and similar expressions are used to identify
these forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees
of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and
assumptions that are difficult to predict. Forward-looking statements
are based upon assumptions as to future events that may not prove to
be accurate. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from
what is expressed or forecast in these forward-looking statements.
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