ACNAccenture
Deals between ACN and its directors, executives, owners of more than 5% or their families: a relative on the payroll, a plane the company charters from its CEO, a director's company that buys from it. SEC rules (Item 404) make the company list every such deal over $120,000 in its proxy statement. Below: what the proxy filed 2025-12-12 reports that the one filed 2024-12-16 did not, quoted as filed.
New this year
Paragraphs about a deal, a person or a relative with nothing like them in the proxy filed 2024-12-16.
Nothing new: every deal in this year's section was reported last year too.
No longer reported 7 paragraphs of the proxy filed 2024-12-16 with nothing like them this year
Certain Related Person Transactions“Avnish Sharma, the brother of Manish Sharma, Accenture’s chief executive officer - the Americas, is employed by Accenture as a managing director. During fiscal 2024, he earned approximately $311,000 in total compensation.”
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Certain Related Person Transactions“Timothy McClure, the brother of KC McClure, Accenture’s former chief financial officer, is employed by Accenture as a cloud advisory senior manager. During fiscal 2024, he earned approximately $222,000 in total compensation.”
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Certain Related Person Transactions“Vikram Renduchintala, the son of Venkata (Murthy) Renduchintala, a member of our Board, joined Accenture in April 2024 as a technology development specialist at an annual base salary of $155,000 plus bonus opportunity.”
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Certain Related Person Transactions“The compensation for Messrs. Sharma, McClure and Renduchintala is commensurate with their peers’ compensation and established in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices applicable to employees with equivalent qualifications, experience and responsibilities. Messrs. Sharma, McClure and Renduchintala participate in employee benefit plans and programs generally made available to employees of similar responsibility levels.”
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Political Contributions and Lobbying“The Company has a long-standing global policy against making contributions to political parties, political committees or candidates using Company resources (including monetary and in-kind services), even where permitted by law.”
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Political Contributions and Lobbying“In the United States, Accenture maintains a political action committee (the “PAC”) that is registered with the Federal Election Commission and makes federal and state political contributions on a bipartisan basis to political parties, political committees and candidates. The PAC is governed by a board of directors, responsible for providing governance and oversight over the strategy, operations, management and contributions. Any contributions made by the PAC are not funded by corporate funds and are fully funded by voluntary contributions made by Accenture leaders in the United States. The Company does not penalize in any way Accenture leaders who do not contribute to the PAC. Accenture does not maintain any PACs outside of the United States.”
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Political Contributions and Lobbying“In addition, when we determine it is in the best interest of the Company, we work with governments to provide information and perspective that support our point of view, through our lobbyists and grassroots lobbying communications. We disclose our U.S. federal, state and local lobbying activity and expenditures as required by law. The Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee and senior management have oversight over political, lobbying and other grassroots advocacy activities. The Company’s political contributions and lobbying policy is available on our website at https://www.accenture.com/us-en/about/governance/political-contributions-policy.”
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The whole section 4 paragraphs, proxy filed 2025-12-12
Review and Approval of Related Person Transactions“The Board has adopted a written Related Person Transactions Policy, which provides that all related person transactions covered by the policy must be reviewed and approved by the Board or by the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee, or ratified if advance review and approval is not reasonably feasible. The Related Person Transactions Policy applies to any transaction that would be required by the SEC to be disclosed in our proxy statement.”
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Review and Approval of Related Person Transactions“The Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee or the Board, as applicable, will not approve or ratify any related person transaction unless, after considering all relevant information, it has determined that the transaction is in, or is not inconsistent with, the best interests of the Company and our shareholders and complies with applicable law. In reviewing related person transactions, the committee or the Board will consider all relevant facts and circumstances, including, among others:”
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Review and Approval of Related Person Transactions“the nature of the related person’s interest in the transaction and the material terms of the transaction, including the importance of the transaction both to the related person and to Accenture;”
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Review and Approval of Related Person Transactions“whether the transaction would likely impair the judgment of a director or an executive officer to act in the best interest of the Company and, in the case of an outside director, whether it would impair their independence; and • whether the value and the terms of the transaction are fair to the Company and on a substantially similar basis as would apply if the transaction did not involve a related person.”
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