acn-20210619

Ireland

001-34448

98-0627530

(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)

(Commission
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(I.R.S. Employer
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Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Class A ordinary shares, par value $0.0000225 per share	ACN	New York Stock Exchange

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On June 24, 2021, Accenture plc (“Accenture”) issued a news release announcing financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2021, which ended on May 31, 2021.

A copy of the news release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99. All information in the news release is furnished but not filed.

•Free cash flow (defined as operating cash flow net of property and equipment additions). Accenture’s management believes that this information provides meaningful additional information regarding the company’s liquidity.

•Percentage changes in revenues and bookings on a local currency basis. 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. This approach is used for all results where the functional currency is not the U.S. dollar. Accenture’s management believes that information regarding changes in its revenues and bookings that excludes the effect of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates facilitates meaningful comparison of its revenues.

•Diluted earnings per share, effective tax rate, income before income taxes, income tax expense, and net income excluding gains on an investment. Accenture’s management believes that information regarding the effect of the investment gains facilitates an understanding as to the impacts of the investment and the company’s financial performance.

Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable financial measures calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP are included in the news release. While Accenture’s management believes that this non-GAAP financial information is useful in evaluating Accenture’s operations, this information should be considered as supplemental in nature and not as a substitute for the related financial information prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

On June 19, 2021, Herbert Hainer, a member of the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Accenture, notified Accenture of his decision to resign from the Board, effective June 19, 2021. Mr. Hainer’s decision to resign was not due to any disagreement between Mr. Hainer and Accenture on any matter relating to the operations, policies or practices of Accenture.


Exhibit No.			Description
99			News Release of Accenture, dated June 24, 2021
104			The cover page from this Current Report on Form 8-K, formatted in Inline XBRL

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.


Date: June 24, 2021	ACCENTURE PLC

	By:	/s/ Joel Unruch
	Name:	Joel Unruch
	Title:	General Counsel & Corporate Secretary


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