- published: 29 Aug 2012
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Accenture (NYSE: ACN) is a multinational management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 244,000 employees across 120 countries. Accenture's current clients include 96 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500. The international company was first incorporated in Bermuda in 2001. Since September 1, 2009 the company has been incorporated in Ireland.
Accenture is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the S&P 500.
Accenture originated as the business and technology consulting division of accounting firm Arthur Andersen. The division's origins are in a 1953 feasibility study for General Electric. GE asked Arthur Andersen to automate payroll processing and manufacturing at GE's Appliance Park facility near Louisville, Kentucky. Arthur Andersen recommended installation of a UNIVAC I computer and printer, which resulted in the first commercially owned computer installation in the United States in 1954. Joe Glickauf was Arthur Andersen's project leader responsible for the payroll processing automation project. Now considered to be the father of computer consulting, Glickauf headed Arthur Andersen's Administrative Services division for 10 years.
Open your eyes, take a look around,
there's an ill-boding wind, blowing into your face
You can sense it
The weak are swept away,
insignificance, lying on the side of a street
Indifference, passed by
Open you eyes, awake from you dreams,
this is the only way
Open your eyes, awake from your dreams,
only this is the way, only way
Enveloped by your myopic dreams,
make up your mind and prepare yourself
have you taken your stance?
No second chance
You've made your decision, despite derision
Who believes in you, who believes in me,
I believe in me
Don't stand still, open your mind,
it's all right, you will find
Come on this is the way
Your path on dusty streets
Open you eyes, awake from your dreams
this is the only way
Open your eyes, awake from your dreams
Who believes in you, who believes in me,
I believe in me