Accenture posts 6.1% quarterly revenue growth, sets measured FY2027 outlook

Accenture’s latest earnings pair growing demand for AI projects with a restrained forecast for the business as a whole. The consulting company posted fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $18.68 billion, up 6.1%, and projected 3%–6% revenue growth in local currencies for FY2027, according to Simply Wall St’s account of the results published by Yahoo Finance.

Profit rose faster than sales. Fourth-quarter net income excluding extra items reached $1.99 billion, up 40.9% from a year earlier. Basic earnings per share increased to $3.31 from $2.27. For the full fiscal year, Accenture generated $74.2 billion in revenue. Those figures establish the scale of the existing business against which its AI opportunity is being measured.

The results follow a period of investor anxiety about that business model. In its September 28 earnings preview, Investor’s Business Daily described pressure on Accenture shares amid concern that AI could reduce demand for labor-intensive consulting. It also said enterprise technology spending had slowed as companies evaluated AI. The concern was not simply whether customers wanted AI, but what that demand would mean for consulting work.

AI work inside a larger pipeline

Accenture said it had booked approximately $11.5 billion in advanced-AI work across 11,000 projects since the third quarter of FY2023. That is a cumulative figure covering several fiscal years, not AI revenue earned during the latest quarter or year. The distinction is important when comparing the AI total with the company’s annual sales and its forecast for the coming year.

The work includes generative AI and agentic AI—systems intended to carry out tasks—and is increasingly built into larger transformation programs, according to the Simply Wall St account. It described advanced-AI demand across about 1,300 of Accenture’s roughly 9,000 clients. That gives a sense of its reach within the customer base, rather than treating every client relationship as an AI engagement.

Across the whole company, annual bookings reached $84.5 billion, with $22.2 billion booked in the fourth quarter. Managed-services bookings accounted for $12.8 billion in that quarter. These broader contract totals provide context for the AI opportunity; they are not a breakdown of AI-only sales or a measure of how much AI work has already become revenue.

1.2FY2026 book-to-bill ratio

Full-year bookings exceeded revenue, giving Accenture a larger contracted pipeline than the sales it recorded during FY2026.

A measured forecast, not an AI surge

For FY2027, Accenture’s guidance also calls for margin expansion of 10–30 basis points, equivalent to 0.1–0.3 percentage points. Alongside the revenue-growth range, that points to incremental improvement rather than a sharp jump in the company’s financial trajectory. Both measures are forecasts for the overall business, not promises about the growth or profitability of its AI projects alone.

Simply Wall St’s cautious interpretation centers on implementation: customers’ data and business-process problems can slow AI deployment, delaying the contribution to revenue and earnings. Its more optimistic interpretation is that embedding AI in large transformation programs creates work that can extend over multiple years. The difference is less about whether contracts exist than about how quickly those projects scale into financial results.