Accenture (ACN) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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Thu, December 18, 2025 astatine 8:32 AM CST 48 min read

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Thursday, December 18, 2025 astatine 8:00 a.m. ET

• Chair and Chief Executive Officer — Julie Sweet

• Chief Financial Officer — Angie Park

• Executive Director, Head of Investor Relations — Alexia Quadrani

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Alexia Quadrani: Thank you, operator, and thanks, everyone, for joining america contiguous connected our archetypal 4th 2026 net announcement. As the relation mentioned, I'm Alexia Quadrani, Executive Director, Head of Investor Relations. On today's call, you volition perceive from Julie Sweet, our seat and main enforcement officer, and Angie Park, our main fiscal officer. We anticipation you've had an accidental to reappraisal the quality merchandise we issued a abbreviated clip ago. Let maine rapidly outline the docket for today's call. Julie volition statesman with an overview of our results, Angie volition instrumentality you done the fiscal details, including the income connection and equilibrium sheet, on with immoderate cardinal operational metrics for the archetypal quarter.

Julie volition past supply a little update connected our marketplace positioning earlier Angie provides concern outlook for the 2nd 4th and afloat twelvemonth fiscal 2026. We volition past instrumentality your questions earlier Julie provides a wrap-up astatine the extremity of the call. Some of the matters we'll sermon connected this call, including our concern outlook, are forward-looking and, arsenic such, are taxable to known and chartless risks and uncertainties, including, but not constricted to, those factors acceptable distant successful today's quality merchandise and discussed successful our yearly study and Form 10-K and quarterly reports connected Form 10-Q and different SEC filings. These risks and uncertainties could origin existent results to disagree materially from those expressed connected the call.

During our telephone today, we volition notation definite non-GAAP fiscal measures, which we judge supply utile accusation for investors. We volition see reconciliations of non-GAAP fiscal measures wherever due to GAAP successful our quality merchandise oregon successful the Investor Relations conception of our website astatine accenture.com. As always, Accenture assumes nary work to update the accusation presented connected this call. Now fto maine crook the telephone implicit to Julie.

Julie Sweet: Thank you, Alexia, and everyone for joining this morning. Apologies successful beforehand for my voice. I americium getting implicit a seasonal cold. And my dependable is not rather cooperating. I truly wanted to commencement contiguous by thanking our astir 784,000 radical astir the satellite for your bonzer enactment and your committedness to our clients, which enabled america to present different beardown quarter. Let maine statesman by sharing that we are precise arrogant to person earned the fig 4 spot connected the large spot to enactment database of the world's champion workplaces, our highest ever ranking connected this prestigious list. This designation reflects our strategy to beryllium the astir client-focused, AI-enabled, large spot to enactment for reinventers.