Accenture spent $923 million mostly on severance. Its headcount still rose to 814,000.
Accenture reported its fiscal 2026 results on 1 October.
Revenue rose 6% to $74.2 billion, and bookings, the value of new client contracts, reached $84.5 billion, including a record 141 client bookings of $100 million or more in the last quarter. The shares rose 23% that day, 24/7 Wall St reported.
The filing also lists $307.5 million of "business optimization" costs this year, mostly employee severance. The programme began in the last quarter of fiscal 2025, which carried another $615.3 million. Together that is about $923 million.
A year ago Accenture reported about 779,000 people. The new figure is about 814,000, roughly 35,000 more after the severance programme ended.
The release does not say how many people left, or which roles the new hires fill, so the totals alone do not show whether the staff mix changed.
"We exceeded our fourth-quarter revenue guidance range," chief executive Julie Sweet said in the release. Accenture expects revenue to grow 3% to 6% in local currency in fiscal 2027.
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