Accenture

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Accenture Plc

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legal form Public Limited Company
ISIN IE00B4BNMY34
founding 1989
Seat Dublin , IrelandIrelandIreland 
management Julie Sweet , CEO
Number of employees around 459,000
sales $ 39.6 billion (2018)
Branch Business consulting
Website www.accenture.com
As of December 31, 2018

Headquarters Accenture ASG, Campus Kronberg im Taunus

The Accenture Plc (formerly Andersen Consulting ) with headquarters in Ireland Dublin is one of the world's largest service providers in the field of business and strategy consulting , technology and outsourcing , with about 459,000 (2018) employees.

The company generated net sales totaling $ 39.6 billion in fiscal 2018 (ended August 31, 2018). In the Forbes Global 2000 of the world's largest companies, Accenture ranks 288 (as of fiscal year 2018). The company had a market value of around US $ 101 billion in mid-2018.

In 2012, 56 percent of this was for consulting and 44 percent for outsourcing . 45 percent of sales were generated in North and South America, 14 percent in the Asia-Pacific region and 41 percent in the European, Middle East / Africa economic region .

history

Accenture emerged on January 1, 2001 through a name change from the management consultancy Andersen Consulting, founded in 1989. The company was originally a sister company of the auditor Arthur Andersen , who was involved in the Enron bankruptcy. The name change took place after the company lost the rights to the Andersen name in 2000 as part of its complete separation. The new name Accenture is an artificial word from Accent on the future .

After being converted into a public company, Accenture has been listed on the NYSE ( New York Stock Exchange ) under the symbol "ACN" since July 19, 2001 . To the Board include, among others Wulf of mold man , the former CEO of Postbank . Since September 1, 2009, the group has been operating as a stock corporation under Irish law and at the same time relocated its headquarters from the Bermuda Islands to Dublin.

Finances

year Sales
in mil. USD $ 		Balance sheet profit
in mil. USD $ 		Assets
in mil. USD $ 		Share
in USD $ 		Employees
2009 23.171 1,590 12.256 28.02
2010 23.094 1,781 12,835 35.20
2011 27,353 2.278 15.732 47.23
2012 29.778 2.554 16.665 54.58
2013 30.394 3.282 16.867 67.91 275,000
2014 31.875 2.941 17,930 74.87 305,000
2015 32.914 3.054 18.203 91.88 358,000
2016 34.798 4,112 20.609 108.54 384,000
2017 36.765 3.445 22.690 126.73 425,000
2018 39,600 4.060 24,449 159.92 459,000

Accenture posted fiscal 2018 earnings of approximately $ 4 billion on annual sales of approximately $ 41.6 billion, up 13.2% year over year. Accenture stock traded for $ 174 each on October 3, 2018. Accenture's market cap was estimated at over $ 104 billion as of October 2018.

Accenture in German-speaking countries

5000 employees work for Accenture in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The head office has been located in the "Kronberg Campus" in Kronberg im Taunus near Frankfurt am Main since 2002 . Further offices are in Basel, Berlin, Bern, Bonn, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Erlangen, Essen, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Hof (Saale), Jena, Kaiserslautern, Munich, Stuttgart, Vienna, Linz , Wolfsburg and Zurich.

In 2017 Accenture took over the majority of the shares in the German internet service provider SinnerSchrader AG.

Awards and recognitions

2017

  • In 2017, Accenture took 14th place (previous year 15th place) in the "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" category.
  • According to Forbes, Accenture is one of the 12 best management consultancies in the USA in 2017 .
  • For the second time in a row (2016 and 2017) Accenture achieved a Top 10 ranking among the best companies for women in India by Working Mother & AVTAR

2018

  • Fortune named Accenture the world's most admired information and technology services company in 2018.
  • CR Magazine named Accenture No. 2 in the Top 100 list of the best corporate citizens for 2018.
  • In 2018, the company was ranked 9th in the Top 50 Diversity Companies by Diversity Inc.

Consultant affair

In the course of the consultant affair with the Bundeswehr , Accenture is accused of nepotism and possible fraud. While advising the German Armed Forces in 2017, Accenture is said to have billed two consulting hours for IT projects. This was initially not noticed because different authorities were involved in the corresponding framework agreements. Accenture is said to have billed at least 25,000 euros too much due to the wrong invoices. Accenture denies the allegations of fraud and wants to refund the amount. Since February 14, 2019, an investigative committee of the Bundestag has been investigating Accenture and the management consultancy McKinsey .

Web links

Commons : Accenture  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Accenture, media release of September 1, 2009
  2. ^ Accenture, Office Locations
  3. ^ Tillmann Neuscheler: Julie Sweet: New boss for Accenture . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed September 1, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b Accenture Fiscal Year 2018 Annual Report
  5. ^ Accenture plc Company Profile - Yahoo Finance. Retrieved March 3, 2014
  6. ↑ Accenture Fiscal Year 2018 Performance Infographic
  7. ^ The World's Largest Public Companies . In: Forbes . ( forbes.com [accessed July 17, 2018]).
  8. ^ Accenture Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year Fiscal 2012 Results , accessed November 10, 2012
  9. ^ Edward Wyatt (2002) Enron's Collapse: Accountants. In: New York Times January 20, 2002
  10. ↑ A new brand name is really expensive ( Memento from June 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), on www.eadp.org.
  11. ^ Board of Directors. ( Memento of February 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved November 13, 2012
  12. ↑ Accenture Total Assets 2006-2020 MAcrotrends Report 2018 October
  13. ↑ Accenture wants to grow by 100 people in Linz by 2021. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Accenture completes takeover of the majority of shares in SinnerSchrader AG , Accenture press release of April 12, 2017
  15. ^ The Diversity Inc Top 50 Companies for Diversity . Diversity Inc. 2017. Archived from the original on July 21, 2017. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  16. ↑ America's Best Management Consulting Firms 2017 (en) . In: Forbes . Retrieved August 16, 2017. 
  17. ↑ Avtariwin, best companies. . Archived from the original on January 21, 2019. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
  18. ^ World's Most Admired Companies . In: Fortune , 2018. Retrieved February 9, 2018. 
  19. ↑ Margie Kuchinski: Corporate Responsibility Magazine Announces 2018 100 Best Corporate Citizens . 3BL Association. May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  20. ↑ The 2018 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity . Diversity Inc. 2018. Retrieved July 26, 2017.
  21. ↑ The committee of inquiry into the consultant affair puts pressure on von der Leyen. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Double billing: German Armed Forces consultancy Accenture denies fraud allegations. Retrieved February 12, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Dangerous witness for Leyen in the Bundeswehr adviser affair. Retrieved February 14, 2019 .