Company Overview

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With more than 126,000 people in 48 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$15.55 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2005.

About Accenture's Health & Life Sciences Group

Accenture's Health & Life Sciences professionals deliver innovation and insight to both the private and public sectors of the marketplace, including integrated healthcare providers, health insurers, managed care organizations, public health organizations and pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical products companies. With approximately 6,000 professionals focused on helping industry organizations around the globe achieve high performance, Accenture has worked with 22 of the 30 healthcare and related companies in the Fortune Global 500. Our Mission is to improve the Quality, Access and Affordability of Health Care around the World by delivering our Patient Centred Connected Health Vision. Accenture's services to Health and Life Sciences organisations in the public and private sectors accounted for approximately $1 billion of Accenture's net revenues in fiscal 2005

About Corporate Citizenship at Accenture.
Corporate citizenship is about companies taking a positive approach in managing their relationships with key stakeholders. This aims to deliver mutual benefit and includes supporting the local community, non profit organizations, employee volunteerism and involvement, trying to minimize any negative impact on the environment, treating the workforce with respect and being ethical in all that we do.

Accenture Corporate Citizenship Statement
Accenture is committed to being a good corporate citizen, playing our full part in society. We seek to understand the impact of our actions on all our clients, employees and the broader community, and we are building mutually beneficial relationships with these groups. Furthermore, we are passionate about making positive contributions to the communities in which we operate.

Accenture recognizes the importance of taking the positive approach of good corporate citizenship in every way. Not only in maintaining high ethical standards in our dealings with clients and business partners and maintaining positive relationships with other key stakeholders, and minimizing any negative impacts, but in making a positive contribution where possible towards solving intractable problems.

Accenture has worked in international forums and with other companies, governments and non-profits in providing and developing ideas and taking part in projects, task forces and action groups addressing such issues as the global digital divide and access to medicines in developing countries.

Accenture, and our employees have also contributed through volunteering, the innovative Accenture Development Partnerships organization and philanthropic initiatives in a global development context:

• Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO): Accenture is partnering with VSO, an international volunteering charity, to allow selected Accenture people to work as grassroots volunteers in developing countries. Regions include Africa, Eastern Europe and the Far East. In VSO Business Partnerships volunteers contribute their skills in areas such as management, finance and IT.
• Accenture Development Partnerships is a charitable organization through which Accenture people apply their business and technology consulting skills for the benefit of the developing world. A unique opportunity to combine a business career with the opportunity to contribute tangible social impact of business skills in international development. Accenture employees have undertaken ADP projects in Asia, Central America, Africa and Central and Eastern Europe.
• Our global giving program supports a wide variety of educational, 'digital opportunities' and other charitable activities through grants from our global foundations and pro-bono assistance from within our businesses. More than just lending our name and financial support, Accenture strives also to make a difference in each of our sponsorships by lending our technology and management expertise.