Accenture Ltd. (ACN)

Accenture, Ltd. operates as a management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. Its management consulting services include customer relationship management; finance and performance management, which offers financial transaction processing, risk management, and business performance reporting solutions; talent and organization performance that assists clients on talent management, workforce, and organizational issues; process and innovation performance, which helps clients in operational and innovation performance, and growth; strategy service line that helps clients turn insights into results; and supply chain management. The company also provides various system integration and technology consulting services, such as enterprise solutions and enterprise resource planning, industry and functional solutions, information management services, service-oriented architecture, custom solutions, software as a service, mobility solutions, and Microsoft solutions, as well as, IT strategy and transformation, enterprise architecture, infrastructure and security consulting, application portfolio optimization and renewal, research and development, and digital solutions. In addition, Accenture offers application outsourcing services comprising application testing, application management of enterprise-wide software programs and capacity services, application enhancement and development, and application portfolio rationalization and consolidation; infrastructure outsourcing services, including IT spend management, data center, service desk, security and network, and workplace services; and business process outsourcing services in the areas of finance and accounting, human resources, learning, procurement, and customer contact. It primarily serves the communications, electronics, high technology, media, and entertainment industries in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.

For the three months ended 30 November 2006, Accenture Ltd.'s revenues rose 14% to $5.17B. Net income rose 32% to $284.2M. Revenues reflect increased sales from the Communications & High Tech operating group due to growth in the Electronics & High Tech industry group across all geographic regions and higher sales from the Financial Services group. Net income also reflects improved operating margins and an increase in interest income.