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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>As filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission on&nbsp;April 18, 2003 </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Registration No.
333-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR SIZE="3" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="19%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000">FORM S-3
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><I>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 </I></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="19%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000">ACCENTURE LTD </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"
COLOR="#000000"><B>(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter) </B></FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="31%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Bermuda</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="31%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>7389</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="31%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>98-0341111</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="31%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>(State or Other Jurisdiction of</B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Incorporation or Organization)</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="31%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>(Primary Standard Industrial</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Classification Code Number)</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="31%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>(I.R.S. Employer</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Identification No.)</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Cedar
House </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>41 Cedar Avenue </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Hamilton HM12, Bermuda </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>(441) 296-8262 </B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>(Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Registrant&#146;s Principal Executive Offices)
</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="19%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Douglas G. Scrivner </B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Accenture Ltd </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B>1661 Page Mill Road </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Palo Alto, CA 94304 </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>(650) 213-2000 </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>(Name and Address, Including
Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code, of Agent for Service) </B><I> </I></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="19%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Copies to: </I></B></FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="100%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>John B. Tehan</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Alan D. Schnitzer</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Simpson Thacher &amp;
Bartlett</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>425 Lexington Avenue</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>New York, NY 10017</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Telephone: (212) 455-2000</B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Facsimile: (212) 455-2502</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE><HR WIDTH="19%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Approximate date of commencement
of proposed sale to the public:</B>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;From time to time after the effective date of this registration statement. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"
COLOR="#000000">If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box. </FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">&#168;</FONT><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"> </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on
a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, other than securities offered only in connection with dividend or interest reinvestment plans, check the following box. <FONT FACE="WINGDINGS">&#120;</FONT>&nbsp;
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act,
please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. </FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">&#168;</FONT><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"> </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c)
under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. </FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="1"
COLOR="#000000">&#168;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"> </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">If delivery of the prospectus is
expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, please check the following box. </FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">&#168;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"> </FONT></P><HR WIDTH="19%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE
COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE </B></FONT></P><HR SIZE="3" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left">
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="32%" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Title of Each Class of Securities</B></FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>to Be Registered</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Amount to Be Registered</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Unit(1)</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(1)</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Amount of Registration Fee</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="32%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:1%; text-indent:-1%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd Class A common shares, par value $0.0000225 per share</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="18%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&nbsp;<B></B>100,000,000&nbsp;&nbsp;shares</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="16%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">$14.25</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="16%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">$1,425,000,000</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" NOWRAP ALIGN="center" WIDTH="16%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">$115,283(2)</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(c) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and based on the
average of the high and low prices of the Class A common shares on April 14, 2003 as reported on the New York Stock Exchange. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="2%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">(2)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">Pursuant to Rule 457(p) under the Securities Act, Accenture Ltd hereby offsets against the $115,283 filing fee due in connection with this Registration Statement
$542 in filing fee associated with 415,815 Class A common shares unsold under Registration Statement No. 333-100116 initially filed by Accenture Ltd on September 26, 2002, which unsold Class A common shares are hereby deregistered.
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><HR WIDTH="19%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement
on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine. </B></FONT></P><HR SIZE="3" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#de1a1e"><B>The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. These securities may not be
sold until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell nor does it seek an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale
is not permitted. </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Subject to Completion. Dated April
18, 2003. </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000">

<IMG SRC="g76850g02w50.jpg" ALT="LOGO">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;100,000,000 Class A Common Shares </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="21%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd may offer from time to time up to </FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B></B></FONT><FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">65,000,000 Class A common shares. The
selling shareholders identified in this prospectus may offer from time to time up to </FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B></B></FONT><FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">35,000,000 Class A common shares.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">This prospectus describes the general manner in which Class A common
shares may be offered and sold by Accenture Ltd and the selling shareholders. If necessary, the specific manner in which Class A common shares may be offered and sold will be described in a supplement to this prospectus. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The Class A common shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol
&#147;ACN.&#148; The last reported sale price of the Class A common shares on April 17, 2003, was $14.75 per share. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><I>See &#147;
<A HREF="#cov102_1">Risk Factors</A>&#148; beginning on page 4 to read about factors you should consider, along with any supplement to this prospectus, before buying the Class A common shares. </I></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="21%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to
the contrary is a criminal offense. </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="21%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="ARIAL" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Prospectus
dated&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;, 2003. </FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>You should rely only on the information incorporated by reference or contained in this
prospectus or any supplement to this prospectus. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. Neither we nor the selling shareholders are making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer is not
permitted. You should not assume that the information contained in this prospectus or any supplement to this prospectus is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front cover of those documents. You should read all information
supplementing this prospectus. </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="21%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
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<A HREF="#tx102_1">Available Information </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_2">Accenture </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_3">Risk Factors </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_4">Disclosure Regarding Forward-Looking Statements </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_5">Use of Proceeds </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_6">Dividend Policy </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_7">Description of Share Capital </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_8">Certain Income Tax Consequences </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_9">Selling Shareholders </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_10">Plan of Distribution </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_11">Legal Matters </A></FONT></P></TD>
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<A HREF="#tx102_12">Experts </A></FONT></P></TD>
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</TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><HR WIDTH="21%" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The Bermuda Monetary Authority has classified us as non-resident of Bermuda for exchange control purposes.
Accordingly, the Bermuda Monetary Authority does not restrict our ability to convert currency, other than Bermuda dollars, held for our account to any other currency, to transfer funds in and out of Bermuda or to pay dividends to non-Bermuda
residents who are shareholders, other than in Bermuda dollars. The permission of the Bermuda Monetary Authority is required for the issue and transfer of our shares under the Exchange Control Act 1972 of Bermuda and regulations under it.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We have obtained the permission of the Bermuda
Monetary Authority for the issue of the Accenture Ltd Class A common shares that we may sell and for the transfer of the Accenture Ltd Class A common shares which the selling shareholders may sell as described in this prospectus. In addition, we
have obtained the permission of the Bermuda Monetary Authority for the free transferability by shareholders of all Accenture Ltd Class A common shares that may be sold as described in this prospectus. Approvals or permissions received from the
Bermuda Monetary Authority do not constitute a guaranty by the Bermuda Monetary Authority as to our performance or our creditworthiness. Accordingly, in giving those approvals or permissions, the Bermuda Monetary Authority will not be liable for our
performance or default or for the correctness of any opinions or statements expressed in this document. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
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<A NAME="tx102_1"></A>AVAILABLE INFORMATION </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd is required to file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy any documents filed by us at the SEC&#146;s public reference room at 450 Fifth
Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information about the public reference room. Our filings with the SEC are also available to the public through the SEC&#146;s Internet site at http://www.sec.gov
and through the New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005, on which the Class A common shares are listed. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We have filed a registration statement on Form S-3 with the SEC relating to the Class A common shares covered by this prospectus. This
prospectus is a part of the registration statement and does not contain all of the information in the registration statement. Whenever a reference is made in this prospectus to a contract or other document of Accenture, please be aware that the
reference is only a summary and that you should refer to the exhibits that are part of the registration statement for a copy of the contract or other document. You may review a copy of the registration statement at the SEC&#146;s public reference
room in Washington, D.C., as well as through the SEC&#146;s Internet site. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The SEC&#146;s rules allow us to &#147;incorporate by reference&#148; information into this prospectus. This means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to another
document. Any information referred to in this way is considered part of this prospectus from the date we file that document. Any reports filed by us with the SEC after the date of the initial registration statement and prior to effectiveness of the
registration statement and any reports filed by us with the SEC after the date of this prospectus and before the date that the offerings of the Class A common shares by means of this prospectus are terminated will automatically update and, where
applicable, supersede any information contained in this prospectus or incorporated by reference in this prospectus. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd incorporates by reference into this prospectus the following documents or information filed with the SEC: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 31, 2002, filed on November 8, 2002, as amended by Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A, filed on December 20,
2002 (File No. 001-16565); </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended November 30, 2002, filed on January 14, 2003 (File No. 001-16565); </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended February 28, 2003, filed on April 14, 2003 (File No. 001-16565); </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Current Report on Form 8-K, dated March 24, 2003, filed on March 26, 2003 (File No. 001-16565); </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed on January 10, 2003 (File No. 001-16565); </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The description of Class A common shares contained in the Registration Statement on Form 8-A, dated June 25, 2001 (File No. 001-16565), of Accenture Ltd, filed with
the SEC under Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">All documents filed by Accenture Ltd under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 after the date of the initial registration
statement and prior to effectiveness of the registration statement and after the date of this prospectus and before the termination of the offerings to which this prospectus relates. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We will provide without charge to each person, including any
beneficial owner, to whom this prospectus is delivered, upon his or her written or oral request, a copy of any or all documents referred to above which have been or may be incorporated by reference into this prospectus, excluding exhibits to those
documents unless they are specifically incorporated by reference into those documents. You can request those documents from Investor Relations, Accenture, 1345 Avenue of the Americas, 18</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"
COLOR="#000000"><SUP>th</SUP></FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"> Floor, New York, NY 10105, Telephone: +1 (877) ACN-5659 in the United States and Puerto Rico, + 1 (703) 797-1711 outside the United States and Puerto Rico.
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<A NAME="tx102_2"></A>ACCENTURE </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture is
one of the world&#146;s leading management consulting and technology services organizations. Our business consists of using our industry knowledge, our service offering expertise and our insight into and access to existing and emerging technologies
to identify new business and technology trends and formulate and implement solutions for clients under demanding time constraints. We help clients around the world identify and enter new markets, increase revenues in existing markets and deliver
their products and services more effectively and efficiently. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd is organized under the laws of Bermuda. We maintain a registered office in Bermuda at Cedar House, 41 Cedar Avenue, Hamilton HM12, Bermuda. Our telephone number in Bermuda is +1&nbsp;(441) 296-8262. We also have major
offices in the world&#146;s leading business centers, including New York, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Sydney and Tokyo. Our Internet address is www.accenture.com. Information contained on our
Web site is not a part of this prospectus. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We
use the terms &#147;Accenture,&#148; &#147;we,&#148; &#147;our&#148; and &#147;us&#148; in this prospectus to refer to Accenture Ltd and its subsidiaries. We use the term &#147;partner&#148; to refer to the executive employees of Accenture with the
&#147;partner&#148; title. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<A NAME="cov102_1"></A>RISK FACTORS
<A NAME="tx102_3"></A> </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><I>You should
carefully consider each of the risks described below and all of the other information in this prospectus and incorporated herein by reference before deciding to invest in our Class A common shares. Additional risks may be included in an applicable
prospectus supplement. </I></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Risks That Relate to Our Business
</B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Should the current significant economic downturn
continue to affect our clients, it could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our results of operations are affected by the economic conditions, level of business activity and level of change in the industries we
serve. In addition, our business tends to lag behind economic cycles in an industry. As a result of continuing uncertain global economic and political conditions, clients continue to reduce or defer expenditures for consulting services, and we
continue to experience increasing pricing pressure, which has eroded our revenues. Should the significant economic downturn continue to affect the levels of business activity of our clients, it could continue to adversely affect our revenues.
Further deterioration of global economic or political conditions could increase these effects. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Our business will be negatively affected if we are not able to anticipate and keep pace with rapid changes in technology or if growth in the use of technology in business is not as rapid as in
the past. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our success depends, in part,
on our ability to develop and implement management and technology services and solutions that anticipate and keep pace with rapid and continuing changes in technology, industry standards and client preferences. We may not be successful in
anticipating or responding to these developments on a timely basis, and our offerings may not be successful in the marketplace. Also, services, solutions and technologies developed by our competitors may make our service or solution offerings
uncompetitive or obsolete. Any one of these circumstances could have a material adverse effect on our ability to obtain and successfully complete client engagements. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our business is also dependent, in part, upon continued growth in the use of technology in business by our
clients and prospective clients and their customers and suppliers. The growth in the use of technology slows down in a challenging economic environment, such as the one we are experiencing now. There is currently no new technology wave to stimulate
spending. Use of new technology for commerce generally requires the understanding and acceptance of a new way of conducting business and exchanging information. Companies that have already invested substantial resources in traditional means of
conducting commerce and exchanging information may be particularly reluctant or slow to adopt a new approach that may make some of their existing personnel, processes and infrastructure obsolete. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>We may face damage to our professional reputation or legal liability if
our clients are not satisfied with our services. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">As a professional services firm, we depend to a large extent on our relationships with our clients and our reputation for high-caliber professional services and integrity to attract and retain clients. As a result, if a client is not
satisfied with our services or solutions, including those of subcontractors we employ, it may be more damaging in our business than in other businesses. Moreover, if we fail to meet our contractual obligations or fail to disclose our financial or
other arrangements with our alliance partners, we could be subject to legal liability or loss of client relationships. Our exposure to legal liability may be increased in the case of outsourcing contracts in which we become more involved in our
clients&#146; </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">operations. Our contracts typically include provisions to limit our exposure to legal claims relating to our services and the solutions we
develop, but these provisions may not protect us or may not be enforceable in all cases. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Our services or solutions may infringe upon the intellectual property rights of others. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We cannot be sure that our services and solutions, or the solutions of others that we offer to our clients, do not infringe on the
intellectual property rights of third parties, and we may have infringement claims asserted against us or against our clients. These claims may harm our reputation, cost us money and prevent us from offering some services or solutions. Historically
in our contracts, we have generally agreed to indemnify our clients for any expenses or liabilities resulting from claimed infringements of the intellectual property rights of third parties. In some instances, the amount of these indemnities may be
greater than the revenues we receive from the client. Any claims or litigation in this area, whether we ultimately win or lose, could be time-consuming and costly, injure our reputation or require us to enter into royalty or licensing arrangements.
We may not be able to enter into these royalty or licensing arrangements on acceptable terms. Depending on the circumstances, we may be required to grant a specific client greater rights in intellectual property developed in connection with an
engagement than we otherwise do, in which case we seek to cross license the use of the intellectual property. However, in very limited situations, we forego rights to the use of intellectual property we help create and in these cases, this limits
our ability to reuse that intellectual property for other clients. Any limitation on our ability to provide a service or solution could cause us to lose revenue-generating opportunities and require us to incur additional expenses to develop new or
modified solutions for future projects. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Our engagements
with clients may not be profitable. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><I>Unexpected costs or delays could make our contracts unprofitable.</I>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;While we have many types of contracts, including time-and-materials contracts, fixed-price contracts and contracts with features of both
of these contract types, the risks associated with all of these types of contracts are often similar. When making proposals for engagements, we estimate the costs and timing for completing the projects. These estimates reflect our best judgment
regarding the efficiencies of our methodologies and professionals as we plan to deploy them on projects. Any increased or unexpected costs or unanticipated delays in connection with the performance of these engagements, including delays caused by
factors outside our control, could make these contracts less profitable or unprofitable, which would have an adverse effect on our profit margin. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><I>Under many of our contracts the payment of some or all of our fees is conditioned upon our performance.</I>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;We
have been moving away from contracts that are priced solely on a time-and-materials basis toward contracts that also include incentives related to factors such as costs incurred, benefits produced, goals attained and adherence to schedule. For
example, we are entering into an increasing number of outsourcing contracts, including business transformation outsourcing contracts, under which payment of all or a portion of our fees is contingent upon our clients meeting cost-saving or other
contractually defined goals. We estimate that a majority of our contracts have some fixed-price, incentive-based or other pricing terms that condition some or all of our fees on our ability to deliver defined goals. The trend to include greater
incentives in our contracts related to costs incurred, benefits produced or our adherence to schedule may increase the variability in revenues and margins earned on such contracts. Moreover, our failure to meet contractually defined goals or a
client&#146;s expectations in any type of contract may result in an unprofitable engagement. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><I>Our contracts can be terminated by our clients with short notice.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</I>Our clients typically retain us on a non-exclusive, engagement-by-engagement basis, rather than under
exclusive long-term contracts. A majority of our consulting engagements are less than twelve months in duration. While our accounting systems identify the duration of our engagements, these systems do not track whether contracts can be </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">terminated upon short notice and without penalty. However, we estimate that the majority of our contracts can be terminated by our clients
with short notice and without significant penalty. The advance notice of termination required for contracts of shorter duration and lower revenue is typically 30 days. Longer-term, larger and more complex contracts generally require a longer notice
period for termination and may include an early termination charge to be paid to us. Additionally, large client projects involve multiple engagements or stages, and there is a risk that a client may choose not to retain us for additional stages of a
project or that a client will cancel or delay additional planned engagements. These terminations, cancellations or delays could result from factors unrelated to our work product or the progress of the project, but could be related to business or
financial conditions of the client or the economy generally. When contracts are terminated, we lose the associated revenues and we may not be able to eliminate associated costs in a timely manner. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><I>We may fail to collect amounts extended to
clients.</I>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In limited circumstances we extend financing to our clients, which we may fail to collect. A client must meet established criteria to receive financing, and any significant extension of credit requires approval by
senior levels of our management. We had extended $298 million of financing as of February 28, 2003. <B> </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>If our affiliates or alliances do not succeed, we may not be successful in implementing our growth strategy. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We have committed a substantial amount of time and financial resources to our affiliates and our
relationships with our alliance partners, and we plan to commit substantial additional financial resources in the future. The benefits we anticipate from these relationships are an important component of our growth strategy. If these relationships
do not succeed, we may fail to obtain the benefits we hope to derive or lose the financial resources we have committed. Similarly, we may be adversely affected by the failure of one or more of our affiliates or alliances, which could lead to reduced
marketing exposure, diminished sales and a decreased ability to develop and gain access to solutions. Moreover, because most of our alliance relationships are non-exclusive, our alliance partners are able to form closer or preferred arrangements
with our competitors. Poor performance or failures of our affiliates or alliances could have a material and adverse impact on our growth strategy, which, in turn, could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Our global operations pose complex management, foreign
currency, legal, tax and economic risks, which we may not adequately address. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We have offices in 47 countries around the world. In fiscal 2002, approximately 50% of our revenues before reimbursements were attributable to our activities in the Americas, 43% were attributable to
our activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and 7% were attributable to our activities in the Asia/Pacific region. For the six months ended February 28, 2003, approximately 48% of our revenues before reimbursements were attributable to our
activities in the Americas, 45% were attributable to our activities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and 7% were attributable to our activities in the Asia/Pacific region. As a result, we are subject to a number of risks, including:
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">trade barriers. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>The consulting, technology and outsourcing markets are highly competitive and the pace of consolidation, as well as vertical integration, among
competitors in the markets in which we operate continues to increase; we may not be able to compete effectively if we cannot efficiently respond to these developments in a timely manner. </I></B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The consulting, technology and outsourcing markets in which
we operate include a large number of participants and are highly competitive. Our primary competitors include: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">professional services groups of packaged software vendors, resellers and computer equipment companies. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">In addition, a client may choose to use its own resources, rather than engage
an outside firm, for the types of services we provide. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Our marketplace is experiencing rapid changes in its competitive landscape. The pace of consolidation among competitors in the markets in which we operate continues, with vertical integration of hardware and software vendors and
service providers becoming more prevalent. Some of our competitors have sought access to public and private capital and others have merged or consolidated with better-capitalized partners. These changes may create more or larger and
better-capitalized competitors with enhanced abilities to compete for market share generally and our clients specifically, in some cases, through significant economic incentives to clients to secure contracts. These competitors may also be better
able to compete for skilled professionals by offering them large compensation incentives. In addition, one or more of our competitors may develop and implement methodologies that result in superior productivity and price reductions without adversely
affecting their profit margins. Many of our competitors are taking greater advantage of the lower labor costs in certain countries to allow them to reduce prices. Any of these circumstances may impose additional pricing pressure on us, which would
have an adverse effect on our revenues and profit margin. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Our transition to a corporate structure may adversely affect our ability to recruit, retain and motivate our partners and other key employees, which in turn could adversely affect our ability to compete effectively and to grow
our business. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We face additional
retention risk because of our transition to a corporate structure in fiscal 2001. Our partners at the time of our transition to a corporate structure received our equity in lieu of the interests in the partnerships and corporations that they
previously held. Each of these partners, on average, received approximately 329,000 Accenture Ltd Class A common shares, Accenture SCA Class I common shares or Accenture Canada Holdings exchangeable shares (with a value of approximately $4,852,750,
at an assumed price per share of $14.75), and the median number of Accenture Ltd Class A common shares, Accenture SCA Class I common shares or Accenture Canada Holdings exchangeable shares received by each of these partners was approximately 355,000
(with a value of approximately $5,236,250, at an assumed price per share of $14.75). Their ownership of this equity is not dependent upon their continued employment. In addition, in connection with our transition to a corporate structure, </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">our partners accepted significant reductions in their cash compensation. The substitution of equity, equity-based incentives and other
employee benefits in lieu of higher cash compensation may not be sufficient to retain and motivate these individuals in the near or long term. There is no guarantee that the non-competition agreements we have entered into with our partners are
sufficiently broad to prevent them from leaving us for our competitors or other opportunities or that these agreements will be enforceable in all cases. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our non-partner employees also receive equity-based incentives. These incentives to attract, retain and motivate employees may not be as
effective as the opportunity, which existed prior to our transition to a corporate structure, to hold a partnership interest in Accenture. If these incentives and others adopted from time to time are not effective, our ability to attract, retain and
motivate skilled professionals will suffer. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>If we are
unable to attract, retain and motivate employees, we will not be able to compete effectively and will not be able to grow our business. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our success and ability to grow are dependent, in part, on our ability to hire, retain and motivate sufficient numbers of talented people
with the increasingly diverse skills needed to grow our business. The inability to attract qualified employees in sufficient numbers to meet particular demands or the loss of a significant number of our employees could have a serious negative effect
on us, including our ability to obtain and successfully complete important client engagements and thus maintain or increase our revenues. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We have been extending a variable component of compensation, the payment of which is dependent upon our performance, to a larger
proportion of our workforce. We have also begun to include equity-based incentives as a component of our executive employees&#146; variable compensation. Due in part to the continuing difficult global economic environment, this has resulted in a
decrease in the total cash compensation received by many of our senior employees. While we adjust compensation levels in individual geographic markets to reflect market forces, including the demand for technical talent, we may have to adjust our
compensation levels or adopt different methods of compensation in certain markets in order to attract and retain appropriate numbers of employees with the diverse skills we need to grow our business and to motivate these employees&#146; performance.
Doing so could adversely affect our operating margins. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>We
have only a limited ability to protect our intellectual property rights, which are important to our success. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our success depends, in part, upon our ability to protect our proprietary methodologies and other intellectual property. Existing laws of
some countries in which we provide services or solutions may offer only limited protection of our intellectual property rights. We rely upon a combination of trade secrets, confidentiality policies, nondisclosure and other contractual arrangements,
and patent, copyright and trademark laws to protect our intellectual property rights. The steps we take in this regard may not be adequate to prevent or deter infringement or other misappropriation of our intellectual property, and we may not be
able to detect unauthorized use of, or take appropriate and timely steps to enforce, our intellectual property rights. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Our profitability will suffer if we are not able to maintain our pricing and utilization rates and control our costs. A continuation of current
pricing pressures could result in permanent changes in pricing policies and delivery capabilities in the markets in which we compete. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our profit margin, and therefore our profitability, is largely a function of the rates we are able to recover for our services and the
utilization rate, or chargeability, of our professionals. Accordingly, if we are not able to maintain the pricing for our services or an appropriate utilization rate for our professionals </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">without corresponding cost reductions, our profit margin and our profitability will suffer. The rates we are able to recover for our services
are affected by a number of factors, including: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">our clients&#146; perceptions of our ability to add value through our services; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the use of globally sourced, lower-cost service delivery capabilities within our industry; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">general economic and political conditions. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our utilization rates are also affected by a number of factors, including: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">seasonal trends, primarily as a result of our hiring cycle and holiday and summer vacations; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">our ability to transition employees from completed projects to new engagements; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">our ability to forecast demand for our services and thereby maintain an appropriate headcount in the appropriate areas of our workforce; and
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">our ability to manage attrition. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our profitability is also a function of our ability to control our costs and improve our efficiency. Our short-term cost-reduction
initiatives, which focus primarily on reducing variable costs, may not be sufficient to deal with all pressures on our pricing and utilization rates. Our long-term cost-reduction initiatives, which focus on global reductions in infrastructure and
other costs, rely upon our successful introduction and coordination of multiple geographic and competency workforces and a growing number of geographically distributed solution centers. As we increase the number of our professionals and execute our
strategies for growth, we may not be able to manage a significantly larger and more diverse workforce, control our costs or improve our efficiency. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">As the continuation of current pricing pressures could result in permanent changes in pricing policies and delivery capabilities, we must
continuously improve our management of costs. Our cost-management initiatives may not be sufficient to maintain our consolidated operating margins if the current challenging economic and political environment continues for several quarters.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Our quarterly revenues, operating results and
profitability will vary from quarter to quarter, which may result in increased volatility of our share price. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our quarterly revenues, operating results and profitability have varied in the past and are likely to vary significantly from quarter to
quarter, making them difficult to predict. This may lead to volatility in our share price. The factors that are likely to cause these variations are: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the business decisions of our clients regarding the use of our services; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the timing of revenue, income or loss from affiliates; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">changes in, or the application of changes in, accounting principles or pronouncements under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, particularly those related
to revenue recognition; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">global economic and political conditions and related risks, including acts of terrorism. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Our strategy to position ourselves to achieve greater percentages of revenue and growth through substantial business
transformation outsourcing engagements could result in higher concentrations of revenue, engagement backlogs and contributions to income among smaller numbers of larger clients. As we continue to accelerate the growth of new outsourcing contracts,
including business transformation outsourcing contracts, we may experience increased pressure on margins during the early stages of these contracts. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We continue to position ourselves to achieve a greater percentage of our revenue and growth through business transformation outsourcing,
our approach that combines outsourcing, including business process outsourcing, with our other capabilities to help clients transform key processes, applications and infrastructure to improve business performance. This strategy could result in
higher concentrations of revenue, engagement backlogs and contributions to income among smaller numbers of larger clients. Outsourcing contracts, including business transformation outsourcing contracts, typically have longer contract terms than
consulting contracts and may not as quickly generate revenue or margins in the early stages of the contract. As we continue to accelerate the growth of new outsourcing contracts, including business transformation outsourcing contracts, we may
experience increased pressure on margins during the early stages of these contracts. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>We may be named in lawsuits as a result of Arthur Andersen&#146;s current legal and financial situation based on misconceptions about the nature of our past relationship with Arthur Andersen firms.
</I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We may be named as a defendant in
lawsuits arising from audits or other services provided by Arthur Andersen firms for Enron Corporation or other companies as a result of concerns of the plaintiffs as to the current legal and financial situation of Arthur Andersen firms. Such
actions would be based on misconceptions about the nature of our past relationship with Arthur Andersen LLP and the other Arthur Andersen firms. We may be more likely to be named in these lawsuits if Arthur Andersen firms are, or are perceived to
be, unable to satisfy judgments against them for any reason. If commenced, litigation of this nature, particularly given the public and media attention focused on the Enron and Arthur Andersen situations, could divert management time and attention,
and we could incur defense costs that we might not be able to recover. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Negative publicity about Bermuda companies may lead to new tax or other legislation that could increase our tax burden and may affect our relationships with our clients. </I></B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Members of the United States Congress have introduced
legislation relating to the tax treatment of U.S. companies that have undertaken certain types of expatriation transactions. It is possible that legislation enacted in this area could reduce the tax benefits of our structure and materially increase
our future tax burden, or otherwise adversely affect our business. Other legislative proposals, if enacted, could limit or even prohibit our eligibility to be awarded U.S. government contracts in the future. In addition, similar state legislative
proposals, if enacted, could adversely affect our eligibility to be awarded U.S. state government contracts in the future. We are unable to predict with any level of certainty the likelihood or final form in which any proposed legislation might
become law or the nature of regulations that may be promulgated under any such future legislative enactments. As a result of these uncertainties, we are unable to assess the impact on us of any proposed legislation in this area. In addition, there
have </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">recently been negative comments regarding Bermuda companies in the media. This negative publicity could harm our reputation and impair our
ability to generate new business if companies or government agencies decline to do business with us as a result of the negative public image of Bermuda companies or the possibility of our clients receiving negative media attention from doing
business with a Bermuda company. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Risks That Relate to
Ownership of Our Class A Common Shares </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>We will
continue to be controlled by our partners, whose interests may differ from those of our other shareholders. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">As of March 30, 2003, our partners owned or controlled shares representing, in the aggregate, a 56% voting interest in Accenture Ltd.
<B></B>These shares are subject to a voting agreement, which requires our partners to vote as a group with respect to all matters submitted to shareholders. Our partners&#146; voting interest in Accenture Ltd may increase to the extent additional
employees we name as partners are required to become parties to the voting agreement. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">As long as our partners continue to own or control a significant block of voting rights, they will control us. This enables them, without the consent of the public shareholders, to: </FONT></P><P
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">elect Accenture Ltd&#146;s board of directors and remove directors; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">control our management and policies; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">determine the outcome of most corporate transactions or other matters submitted to the Accenture Ltd shareholders for approval, including mergers, amalgamations and
the sale of all or substantially all of our assets; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">act in their own interest as partners, which may conflict with or not be the same as the interests of shareholders who are not partners. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Furthermore, as a result of a partner matters agreement, our
partners will continue to have influence with respect to a variety of matters over which neither shareholders nor employees of a public company typically have input. The partner matters agreement provides mechanisms for our partners to:
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">select, for three to five years after our initial public offering, five partner nominees for election to membership on the board of directors of Accenture Ltd;
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">make a non-binding recommendation to the board of directors of Accenture Ltd through a committee of partners regarding the selection of a chief executive officer of
Accenture Ltd in the event a new chief executive officer needs to be appointed within the first four years after our initial public offering; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">vote on new partner admissions; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">approve the partners&#146; income plan as described below; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>

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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">hold a non-binding vote with respect to any decision to eliminate or materially change the current practice of allocating partner compensation on a relative, or
&#147;unit,&#148; basis. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Under the
terms of the partner matters agreement, a partners&#146; income committee, consisting of the chief executive officer and partners he or she appoints, reviews evaluations and recommendations concerning the performance of partners and determines
relative levels of income participation, or unit allocation. Based on its review, the committee prepares a partners&#146; income plan, which then must be submitted to the partners in a partner matters vote. If the plan is approved by a 66<FONT
SIZE="1"><SUP>&nbsp;2</SUP></FONT><FONT SIZE="2">/</FONT><FONT SIZE="1">3</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">% partner matters vote, it is: (1) binding with respect to the income participation or unit allocation of all
partners other than the principal executive officers of Accenture Ltd (including the chief executive officer), subject to the </FONT></FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">impact on overall unit allocation of determinations by the board of directors or the compensation committee of the board of directors of
Accenture Ltd of the unit allocation for the executive officers, unless otherwise determined by the board of directors; and (2) submitted to the compensation committee of the board of directors of Accenture Ltd as a recommendation with respect to
the income participation or unit allocation of the chief executive officer and the other principal executive officers of Accenture Ltd. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>The share price of the Accenture Ltd Class A common shares may decline due to the large number of Class A common shares eligible for future sale.
</I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Sales of substantial amounts of
Accenture Ltd Class A common shares, or the perception of these sales, may adversely affect the price of the Class A common shares and impede our ability to raise capital through the issuance of equity securities in the future. A substantial number
of Class A common shares are eligible for future sale as described below: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">As of March 30, 2003, substantially all of the Class A common shares, Accenture SCA Class I common shares and Accenture Canada Holdings exchangeable shares held
by our partners and former partners and previously received by them in connection with our transition to a corporate structure were subject to the provisions of a voting agreement and/or a transfer rights agreement that permit sales in increasing
amounts over seven years beginning July 24, 2002. Equity awards received by partners under Accenture&#146;s share incentive plan after our transition to a corporate structure, while not subject to the transfer restrictions of the voting agreement
and the transfer rights agreement, are subject to vesting and/or delivery on various deferred schedules. <B></B>Current and former partners, and their permitted transferees, holding as of March 30, 2003 an aggregate of more than 684,801,441
Accenture Ltd Class A common shares, Accenture SCA Class I common shares and Accenture Canada Holdings exchangeable shares, including substantially all of such shares subject to the transfer restrictions of the voting agreement and/or the transfer
rights agreement, have separately agreed not to transfer any equity interests in Accenture acquired from Accenture until July 24, 2005, except for sales in transactions approved by Accenture. We expect that all of our employees who become partners
in the future will agree to these separate July 24, 2005 transfer restrictions. While the transfer restrictions in the voting agreement and the transfer rights agreement will continue to apply, such transfer restrictions will be waived to permit
Accenture-approved transactions. From time to time we may also approve limited relief from the existing share transfer restrictions under the voting agreement and/or transfer rights agreement for specified partners or groups of partners in
connection with particular retirement, employment and severance arrangements that we determine to be important to the execution of our business strategy. After July 24, 2005, however, only the provisions of the voting agreement and the transfer
rights agreement, as well as the deferred vesting and/or delivery schedules that govern equity awards under Accenture&#146;s share incentive plan, will apply. Commencing in the first quarter of fiscal 2003, we have been affording partners and former
partners and their permitted transferees who have agreed not to transfer their equity interests in Accenture until July&nbsp;24, 2005 except in specified Accenture-approved transactions with regular opportunities to sell or redeem their shares.
These transactions have included sales of Class A common shares in accordance with the manner of sale provisions of Rule&nbsp;144 under the Securities Act by the holders of these shares and redemptions and repurchases by Accenture of Accenture SCA
Class I common shares and Accenture Canada Holdings exchangeable shares from the holders of those shares. These redemptions and repurchases have been at ratable volume levels and equivalent price levels with the sales of Class A common shares. We
expect to continue to enable these partner share transactions at increased volume levels, and the sales of Class A common shares by the holders of these shares may be covered by this prospectus. We also expect that such partners and former partners
and their permitted transferees will be permitted to transfer shares in connection with </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">future underwritten public offerings or private placements. The contractual restrictions on transfer described in this paragraph may not be
enforceable in all cases. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#159;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT></TD>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">In addition, 52,393,161 Class A common shares underlying restricted share units generally are scheduled to be delivered during the calendar year indicated below:
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Number&nbsp;of&nbsp;Shares</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="112" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="50%" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Calendar Year</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="87" SIZE="1" NOSHADE
COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff">
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">8,579,481</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2003</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">19,925,090</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2004</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff">
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">3,002,221</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2005</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">3,039,979</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2006</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff">
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2,880,395</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2007</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2,722,864</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2008</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff">
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">6,494,627</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2009</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">5,748,504</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">After 2009</FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:7%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The delivery of some of these shares may be deferred based on elections made by the holders. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:7%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">35,046,635 of all Class A common shares issuable pursuant to
restricted share units underlie restricted share units granted to current and former partners, and we expect that, to the extent delivered prior to July 24, 2005, substantially all of these Class A common shares will be subject to the contractual
transfer restrictions lasting until July 24, 2005 described above. Class A common shares delivered pursuant to restricted share units held by our non-partner employees and non-employee directors are not subject to contractual restrictions on
transfer. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR>
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#159;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">In addition, 82,592,532 Class A common shares are issuable pursuant to options, of which options to purchase an aggregate of 18,208,131 Class A common shares are
exercisable and options to purchase an aggregate of 64,384,401 Class A common shares generally will become exercisable during the calendar year indicated below: </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Number&nbsp;of&nbsp;Shares</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="112" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="50%" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Calendar Year</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="87" SIZE="1" NOSHADE
COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff">
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">19,291,840</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2003</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">19,850,581</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2004</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff">
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">19,404,798</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2005</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">4,259,668</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2006</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff">
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="14%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">1,577,514</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="50%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">After 2006</FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:9%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">16,621,576 of all Class A common shares issuable pursuant to options are issuable pursuant to options that have been granted to current and former partners, and we expect that, to the extent purchased prior to July 24, 2005,
substantially all of these Class A common shares will be subject to the contractual transfer restrictions lasting until July&nbsp;24, 2005 described above. Class A common shares delivered under options held by our non-partner employees and
non-employee directors are not subject to contractual restrictions on transfer. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B><I>We may need additional capital in the future, and this capital may not be available to us. The raising of additional capital may dilute shareholders&#146; ownership in us. </I></B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We may need to raise additional funds through public or
private debt or equity financings in order to: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR>
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#159;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">take advantage of opportunities, including more rapid expansion; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR>
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#159;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">acquire complementary businesses or technologies; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TR>
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#159;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">develop new services and solutions; or </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR>
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT><FONT FACE="WINGDINGS" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#159;</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"></FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">respond to competitive pressures. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Any additional capital raised through the sale of equity may dilute shareholders&#146; ownership percentage in us. Furthermore, any
additional financing we may need may not be available on terms favorable to us, or at all. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>We are registered in
Bermuda, and a significant portion of our assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may not be possible for shareholders to enforce civil liability provisions of the federal or state securities laws of the United States.
</I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We are organized under the laws of
Bermuda, and a significant portion of our assets are located outside the United States. It may not be possible to enforce court judgments obtained in the United States against us in Bermuda or in countries, other than the United States, where we
have assets based on the civil liability provisions of the federal or state securities laws of the United States. In addition, there is some doubt as to whether the courts of Bermuda and other countries would recognize or enforce judgments of United
States courts obtained against us or our directors or officers based on the civil liabilities provisions of the federal or state securities laws of the United States or would hear actions against us or those persons based on those laws. We have been
advised by our legal advisors in Bermuda that the United States and Bermuda do not currently have a treaty providing for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters. Therefore, a final judgment for the
payment of money rendered by any federal or state court in the United States based on civil liability, whether or not based solely on United States federal or state securities laws, would not automatically be enforceable in Bermuda. Similarly, those
judgments may not be enforceable in countries, other than the United States, where we have assets. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Bermuda law differs from the laws in effect in the United States and may afford less protection to shareholders. </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Our shareholders may have more difficulty protecting their interests than would shareholders of a corporation
incorporated in a jurisdiction of the United States. As a Bermuda company, we are governed by the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda. The Companies Act differs in some material respects from laws generally applicable to United States corporations and
shareholders, including the provisions relating to interested directors, mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, shareholder lawsuits and indemnification of directors. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Under Bermuda law, the duties of directors and officers of a company are generally owed to the company only.
Shareholders of Bermuda companies do not generally have rights to take action against directors or officers of the company, and may only do so in limited circumstances. Officers of a Bermuda company must, in exercising their powers and performing
their duties, act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the company and must exercise the care and skill that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances. Directors have a duty not to put
themselves in a position in which their duties to the company and their personal interests may conflict and also are under a duty to disclose any personal interest in any contract or arrangement with the company or any of its subsidiaries. If a
director or officer of a Bermuda company is found to have breached his duties to that company, he may be held personally liable to the company in respect of that breach of duty. A director may be liable jointly and severally with other directors if
it is shown that the director knowingly engaged in fraud or dishonesty. In cases not involving fraud or dishonesty, the liability of the director will be determined by the Bermuda courts on the basis of their estimation of the percentage of
responsibility of the director for the matter in question, in light of the nature of the conduct of the director and the extent of the causal relationship between his conduct and the loss suffered. </FONT></P><P
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<A NAME="tx102_4"></A>DISCLOSURE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">This prospectus contains or incorporates by reference forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act relating to our operations that are based on our
current expectations, estimates and projections. Words such as &#147;expects,&#148; &#147;intends,&#148; &#147;plans,&#148; &#147;projects,&#148; &#147;believes,&#148; &#147;estimates&#148; and similar expressions are used to identify these
forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Forward-looking statements are based upon assumptions as to future events that may
not prove to be accurate. Actual outcomes and results may differ materially from what is expressed or forecast in these forward-looking statements. The reasons for this include changes in general economic and political conditions, including
fluctuations in exchange rates, and the factors discussed under the section entitled &#147;Risk Factors.&#148; </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<A NAME="tx102_5"></A>USE OF PROCEEDS </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Unless
otherwise indicated in a prospectus supplement, and except as described in the next sentence, we intend to use the net proceeds from Accenture Ltd&#146;s sale of Class A common shares pursuant to this prospectus from time to time to acquire or
redeem, as the case may be, an equivalent number of Accenture SCA Class I common shares and Accenture Canada Holdings exchangeable shares. Unless otherwise indicated in a prospectus supplement, we intend to use any proceeds from the exercise of any
overallotment option that we may grant to underwriters to fund Accenture&#146;s share employee compensation trust that will provide select Accenture employee benefits, such as equity awards to future partners. Pending specific application of the net
proceeds, we intend to invest them in short-term marketable securities. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Except as described below, we will not receive any proceeds from the sale of any Class A common shares offered by the selling shareholders. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We expect that certain of the Accenture shareholders who will sell Class A common shares pursuant to this
prospectus or from whom we acquire or redeem shares as described above will pay to us an amount equal to 3%-3&#189;% of the gross proceeds from the disposition of their shares, less the amount of any underwriting discount or brokerage costs. We will
apply these amounts to cover all of the expenses of offerings to which this prospectus relates, with the excess being applied to fund our share employee compensation trust. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>
<A NAME="tx102_6"></A>DIVIDEND POLICY </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We
currently do not anticipate that Accenture Ltd or Accenture SCA will pay dividends. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We may from time to time enter into financing agreements that contain financial covenants and restrictions, some of which may limit the ability of Accenture Ltd and Accenture SCA to pay dividends.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Future dividends on the Class A common shares of
Accenture Ltd, if any, will be at the discretion of its board of directors and will depend on, among other things, our results of operations, cash requirements and surplus, financial condition, contractual restrictions and other factors that the
board of directors may deem relevant. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<A NAME="tx102_7"></A>DESCRIPTION OF SHARE CAPITAL </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><I>The following summary is a description of the material terms of Accenture Ltd&#146;s share capital. We encourage you to read Accenture Ltd&#146;s memorandum of continuance and bye-laws which have been filed with the SEC.
</I></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>General </B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The authorized share capital of Accenture Ltd is $517,500
comprising: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">20,000,000,000 Class A common shares, par value $0.0000225 per share; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">1,000,000,000 Class X common shares, par value $0.0000225 per share; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2,000,000,000 preferred shares, par value $0.0000225 per share. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Common Shares </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Voting </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Holders of Accenture Ltd&#146;s Class A common shares and Class X common shares are entitled to one vote per share held of record on all
matters submitted to a vote of shareholders at which they are present in person or by proxy. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Mandatory Redemption </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd may, at its option, redeem at any time any Class X common share for a redemption price equal to the par value of the Class X common share. Accenture Ltd has agreed with each partner who
holds Class X common shares, however, not to redeem any Class X common share of a holder if such redemption would reduce the number of Class X common shares held by such holder to a number that is less than the number of Accenture SCA Class I common
shares or Accenture Canada Holdings exchangeable shares held by that holder, as the case may be. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Dividends </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Each Class A common share is entitled to a pro rata part of any dividend at the times and in the amounts, if any, which Accenture Ltd&#146;s board of directors from time to time determines to declare, subject to any
preferred dividend rights attaching to any preferred shares. Class X common shares are not entitled to dividends. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Liquidation Rights </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Each Class A common share is entitled on a winding-up of Accenture Ltd to be paid a pro rata part of the value of the assets of Accenture
Ltd remaining after payment of its liabilities, subject to any preferred rights on liquidation attaching to any preferred shares. Class X common shares are not entitled to be paid any amount upon a winding-up of Accenture Ltd. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Election of Directors </I></B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The election of the directors of Accenture Ltd is determined
by a majority of the votes cast at the general meeting at which the directors are elected. Shareholders of Accenture Ltd do not have cumulative voting rights. Accordingly, the holders of a majority of the voting rights attaching to our common shares
will, as a practical matter, be entitled to control the election of all directors. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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Ltd&#146;s board of directors has the power to appoint directors to fill vacancies on the board and, if authorized by resolution of the shareholders, to appoint additional directors. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd&#146;s board of directors has adopted guidelines providing that, except for our chief executive
officer and up to two additional inside directors designated by our chief executive officer, Accenture Ltd&#146;s directors will not be allowed to serve more than three consecutive terms. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Under Accenture Ltd&#146;s bye-laws, for so long as the shares owned by partners which are subject to the
voting provisions of the voting agreement represent a majority of Accenture Ltd&#146;s voting power, a director may be removed at the direction of the partners representatives. Once the shares subject to the voting provisions of the voting agreement
no longer represent a majority of Accenture Ltd&#146;s voting power, a director may be removed at the request of not less than 75% of the other directors. Any vacancy created by the removal of a director may be filled by the board of directors.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Other Rights </I></B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Class X common shares are not entitled to any dividend or
liquidation rights or, except as described herein, any other rights. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>No Pre-emptive Rights </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Holders of common shares of Accenture Ltd have no pre-emptive rights. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Transfer </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Under Accenture Ltd&#146;s bye-laws, Class A common shares are transferable by their holders. Class X common shares are transferable by their holders only with the consent of Accenture Ltd. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Preferred Shares </B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd has created 2,000,000,000 authorized preferred
shares, par value $0.0000225 per share, the rights and preferences of which are currently undesignated. The board of directors of Accenture Ltd has the authority to issue the preferred shares in one or more series and to fix the rights, preferences,
privileges and restrictions attaching to those shares, including dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, redemption terms and prices, liquidation preferences and the numbers of shares constituting any series and the designation of any
series, without further vote or action by the shareholders. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Any series of preferred shares could, as determined by our board of directors at the time of issuance, rank senior to our common shares with respect to dividends, voting rights, redemption and/or liquidation rights. These preferred
shares are of the type commonly known as &#147;blank-check&#148; preferred stock. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">At present, Accenture Ltd has no plans to issue any preferred shares. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Bermuda Law </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd is an exempted company organized under the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda. The rights of Accenture Ltd&#146;s shareholders,
including those persons who will become shareholders in connection with this offering, are governed by Bermuda law and our memorandum of continuance and bye-laws. The Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda differs in some material respects from laws
generally </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">applicable to United States corporations and their shareholders. The following is a summary of the material provisions of Bermuda law and
Accenture Ltd&#146;s organizational documents. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Dividends </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Under
Bermuda law, a company may pay dividends that are declared from time to time by its board of directors unless there are reasonable grounds for believing that the company is or would, after payment, be unable to pay its liabilities as they become due
or that the realizable value of its assets would as a result be less than the aggregate of its liabilities and issued share capital and share premium accounts. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Voting Rights </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Under Bermuda law, except as otherwise provided in the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda or Accenture Ltd&#146;s bye-laws, questions brought
before a general meeting of shareholders are decided by a majority vote of shareholders present in person or by proxy at the meeting. Accenture Ltd&#146;s bye-laws provide that, subject to the provisions of the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda, any
question proposed for the consideration of the shareholders will be decided by a simple majority of the votes cast (except in the case of amendments to certain provisions of the bye-laws of Accenture Ltd, such as those relating to amalgamations,
discontinuances, asset sales and the appointment and resignation of directors, where an 80% majority may be required if such amendments are not approved by the board of directors). A description of the voting rights attaching to Accenture Ltd Class
A common shares and Class X common shares is set out above. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Rights in Liquidation </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Under Bermuda law, in the event of a liquidation or winding-up of a company, after satisfaction in full of all claims and creditors and subject to the preferential rights accorded to any series of preference shares and subject to any
specific provisions of the company&#146;s bye-laws, the proceeds of the liquidation or winding-up are distributed pro rata among the holders of common shares. A description of the specific liquidation rights attaching to Accenture Ltd Class A common
shares and Class X common shares is set out above. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Meetings of Shareholders </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Under Bermuda law, a company is required to convene at least one shareholders&#146; meeting each calendar year. Bermuda law provides that a special general meeting may be called by the board of directors and must be called upon the
request of shareholders holding not less than 10% of the paid-up share capital of the company carrying the right to vote. Bermuda law also requires that shareholders be given at least five days&#146; advance notice of a general meeting, but the
accidental omission to give notice to any person does not invalidate the proceedings at a meeting. Under Accenture Ltd&#146;s bye-laws, we must give each shareholder at least 30 days&#146; notice of the annual general meeting and at least 10
days&#146; notice of any special general meeting. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Under Bermuda law, the number of shareholders constituting a quorum at any general meeting of shareholders is determined by the bye-laws of a company. Accenture Ltd&#146;s bye-laws provide that the presence in person or by proxy of
two or more shareholders entitled to attend and vote and holding shares representing more than 50% of the voting power constitutes a quorum (except in certain exceptional cases where a greater number is required). </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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to Books and Records and Dissemination of Information </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Members of the general public have the right to inspect the public documents of a company available at the office of the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda. These documents include a company&#146;s certificate of incorporation or
continuance, its memorandum of association or continuance, including its objects and powers, and any alteration to its memorandum of association or continuance. The shareholders have the additional right to inspect the bye-laws of the company,
minutes of general meetings and the company&#146;s audited financial statements. The register of shareholders of a company is also open to inspection by shareholders without charge and by members of the general public on the payment of a fee. A
company is required to maintain its share register in Bermuda but may, subject to the provisions of Bermuda law, establish a branch register outside Bermuda. Accenture Ltd maintains its principal share register in Hamilton, Bermuda and a branch
register in the United States. A company is required to keep at its registered office a register of its directors and officers which is open for inspection for not less than two hours each day by members of the public without charge. Bermuda law
does not, however, provide a general right for shareholders to inspect or obtain copies of any other corporate records. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Board Actions </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Under Bermuda law, the directors of a Bermuda company owe their fiduciary duty principally to the company rather than the shareholders.
Accenture Ltd&#146;s bye-laws provide that certain actions are required to be approved by our board of directors. Actions must be approved by a majority of the votes present and entitled to be cast at a properly convened meeting of Accenture
Ltd&#146;s board of directors. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture
Ltd&#146;s bye-laws provide that a director of Accenture Ltd, in taking any action (including an action that may involve or relate to a change of control or potential change of control of Accenture Ltd), may (but is not required to) consider, among
other things, the effects that the action may have on other interests or persons (including Accenture Ltd&#146;s shareholders, partners, retired partners and employees and the communities in which we do business) as long as the director acts
honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of Accenture Ltd. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Amendment of Memorandum of Continuance and Bye-laws </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Bermuda law provides that the memorandum of association or continuance of a company may be amended by a resolution passed at a general
meeting of shareholders of which due notice has been given. An amendment to the memorandum of association or continuance, other than an amendment that alters or reduces a company&#146;s share capital, also requires the approval of the Bermuda
Minister of Finance, who may grant or withhold approval at his or her discretion. Accenture Ltd&#146;s bye-laws may be amended by its board of directors if the amendment is approved by shareholders by a resolution passed by the holders of a majority
of the votes cast (except in limited instances, where the bye-law amendment has not been approved by the board of directors and where the approval of a resolution in favor of which the holders of not less than 80% of the voting power have voted is
required). Under Bermuda law, the holders of an aggregate of no less than 20% in par value of a company&#146;s issued share capital or any class of issued share capital have the right to apply to the Bermuda Court for an annulment of any amendment
of the memorandum of association or continuance adopted by shareholders at any general meeting, other than an amendment that alters or reduces a company&#146;s share capital. Where such an application is made, the amendment becomes effective only to
the extent that it is confirmed by the Bermuda Court. An application for the annulment of an amendment of the memorandum of association or continuance must be made within 21 days after the date on which the resolution altering the company&#146;s
memorandum is passed and may be made on behalf of the persons entitled to make the application by one or more of their number as they may appoint in writing for the purpose. No such application may be made by persons voting in favor of the
amendment. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Appraisal Rights and Shareholder Suits </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Under Bermuda law, in the event of an amalgamation of a Bermuda company with another company, a shareholder who is not satisfied that fair value has been paid for his or her shares in the Bermuda company may apply to the
Bermuda Court to appraise the fair value of his or her shares. Under Bermuda law and Accenture Ltd&#146;s bye-laws, the amalgamation of Accenture Ltd with another company requires the amalgamation agreement to be approved by Accenture Ltd&#146;s
board of directors and by a resolution of the shareholders of Accenture Ltd. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Class actions and derivative actions are generally not available to shareholders under Bermuda law. The Bermuda Court, however, would ordinarily be expected to permit a shareholder to commence an
action in the name of a company to remedy a wrong done to the company where the act complained of is alleged to be beyond the corporate power of the company or is illegal or would result in violation of the company&#146;s memorandum of association
or continuance or bye-laws. Further consideration would be given by the Bermuda Court to acts that are alleged to constitute a fraud against the minority shareholders or, for instance, where an act requires the approval of a greater percentage of
the company&#146;s shareholders than that which actually approved it. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">When the affairs of a company are being conducted in a manner oppressive or prejudicial to the interests of some part of the shareholders, one or more shareholders may apply to the Bermuda Court for an order regulating the
company&#146;s conduct of affairs in the future or compelling the purchase of the shares of any shareholder, by other shareholders or by the company. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Transfer Agent and Registrar </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">National City Bank serves as transfer agent and branch registrar for the Class A common shares in the United States. Reid Management Ltd
serves as transfer agent and principal registrar for the Class A common shares in Bermuda. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<A NAME="tx102_8"></A>CERTAIN INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B>Taxation of Accenture Ltd </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Under current Bermuda law, we are not subject to tax in Bermuda on our income or capital gains. Furthermore, we have obtained from the Minister of Finance of Bermuda, under the Exempted Undertakings Tax Protection Act 1966, an
undertaking that, in the event that Bermuda enacts any legislation imposing tax computed on any income or gains, that tax will not be applicable to us until March 28, 2016. This undertaking does not, however, prevent the imposition of any tax or
duty on persons ordinarily resident in Bermuda or any property tax on leasehold interests we may have in Bermuda. We will pay an annual government fee in Bermuda based on our authorized share capital and share premium. We currently pay, and expect
to continue to pay, the maximum annual government fee applicable to us. The annual government fee amounts are subject to review from time to time by the Bermuda authorities. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Taxation of Holders </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Bermuda Tax Considerations </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Under current Bermuda law, no income, withholding or other taxes or stamp or other duties are imposed in Bermuda upon the issue, transfer
or sale of our common shares or on any payments in respect of our common shares (except, in certain circumstances, to persons ordinarily resident in Bermuda). See &#147;Taxation of Accenture Ltd&#148; above for a description of the undertaking on
taxes obtained by us from the Minister of Finance of Bermuda. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B><I>United States Federal Income Tax Considerations </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The following is a summary of the material United States federal income tax consequences, as of the date of this document, of the ownership of our Class A common shares by beneficial owners who
purchase the Class A common shares pursuant to this offering, who hold the Class A common shares as capital assets and who are United States persons under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Under the Internal Revenue Code, you are a
United States person if you are: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a citizen or resident of the United States; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a corporation or partnership created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">an estate, the income of which is subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source; or </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a trust that is subject to the supervision of a court within the United States and the control of one or more United States persons or that has a valid election in
effect under applicable United States Treasury regulations to be treated as a United States person. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">This summary is based upon current laws and regulations and relevant interpretations of these laws and regulations, all of which are
subject to change, possibly with retroactive effect, and is for general purposes only. We cannot assure you that a later change in law will not significantly alter the tax considerations that we describe in this summary. We have not requested a
ruling from the Internal Revenue Service with respect to any of the United States federal income tax consequences of the offering. As a result, there can be no assurance that the Internal Revenue Service will not disagree with or challenge any of
the conclusions described below. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">This summary
does not represent a detailed description of the United States federal income tax consequences to you in light of your particular circumstances and prospective investors should consult their own tax advisors as to the tax consequences of an
investment in our Class A common shares, </FONT>
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<FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">including the application to their particular situations of the tax considerations discussed below and the application of state, local,
foreign or other federal tax laws. In addition, it does not present a description of the United States federal income tax consequences applicable to you if you are subject to special treatment under the United States federal income tax laws,
including if you are: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a dealer in securities or currencies; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a trader in securities if you elect to use a mark-to-market method of accounting for your securities holdings; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a financial institution; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">an insurance company; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a tax-exempt organization; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a person liable for alternative minimum tax; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a person holding Class A common shares as part of a hedging, integrated or conversion transaction, constructive sale or straddle; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a person owning, actually or constructively, 10% or more of our voting stock or 10% or more of the voting stock of any of our non-United States subsidiaries; or
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">a person whose functional currency is not the United States dollar. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">If a partnership holds our Class A common shares, the tax treatment of a partner will generally depend upon
the status of the partner and the activities of the partnership. If you are a partner of a partnership holding our Class A common shares, you should consult your tax advisor. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">You should consult your own tax advisor concerning the particular United States federal income tax
consequences to you of the ownership and disposition of the Class A common shares, as well as the consequences to you arising under the laws of any other taxing jurisdiction. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Taxation of Dividends </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The gross amount of distributions you receive on your Class A common shares will generally be treated as
dividend income to you if the distributions are made from our current and accumulated earnings and profits, calculated according to United States federal income tax principles. Such income will be includible in your gross income as ordinary income
on the day you actually or constructively receive it. You will not be entitled to claim a dividends received deduction, generally allowed to United States corporations in respect of dividends received from other United States corporations, with
respect to distributions you receive from us. To the extent that the amount of any distribution exceeds our current and accumulated earnings and profits for a taxable year, the distribution will first be treated as a tax-free return of capital,
causing a reduction in your adjusted basis in the Class A common shares, thereby increasing the amount of gain, or decreasing the amount of loss, you will recognize on a subsequent disposition of the shares, and the balance in excess of your
adjusted basis will be taxed as capital gain recognized on a sale or exchange. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">If, for United States federal income tax purposes, we are classified as a United States-owned foreign corporation, distributions made to you with respect to your Class A common shares that are taxable
as dividends generally will be treated for United States foreign tax credit purposes as: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">foreign source passive income or, in the case of some holders, foreign source financial services income; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">United States source income, </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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and profits in the year of such distribution allocable to foreign and United States sources, respectively. For this purpose, we will be treated as a United States-owned foreign corporation so long as stock representing 50% or more of the voting
power or value of our shares is owned, directly or indirectly, by United States persons. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Foreign Personal Holding Company </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">A foreign corporation will be classified as a foreign personal holding company if: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">at any time during the corporation&#146;s taxable year, five or fewer individuals who are United States citizens or residents own, directly or indirectly (or by
virtue of certain ownership attribution rules), more than 50% of the corporation&#146;s stock by either voting power or value (we refer to this as the &#147;shareholder test&#148;); and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the corporation receives at least 60% of its gross income, or 50% after the initial year of qualification, as adjusted, for the taxable year from certain passive
sources (we refer to this as the &#147;income test&#148;). </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">If we or one of our non-United States subsidiaries were classified as a foreign personal holding company, you and some indirect holders would be required, regardless of your percentage ownership, to include in income as a
dividend, your pro rata share of our (or our relevant non-United States subsidiary&#146;s) undistributed foreign personal holding company income if you were a holder on the last day of our taxable year or, if earlier, the last day on which we
satisfied the shareholder test. Foreign personal holding company income is generally equal to taxable income with certain adjustments. In addition, if we were classified as a foreign personal holding company, shareholders who acquired our shares
from decedents would not receive a &#147;stepped-up&#148; basis in that stock. Instead, these shareholders would have a tax basis equal to the lower of the fair market value of the shares or the decedent&#146;s basis. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Because of the application of complex ownership attribution
rules, we are likely to meet the shareholder test in a given year. To the extent we have gross income, we are also likely to satisfy the income test and be treated as a foreign personal holding company. However, even if we are classified as a
foreign personal holding company, subject to the discussion of our non-United States subsidiaries below, we do not anticipate having any material amounts of undistributed foreign personal holding company income because we do not expect to have any
material amounts of net taxable income. In the unlikely event we have net taxable income, we intend to distribute it to you so as to avoid having taxable income imputed to you under these rules. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">In addition, because of the application of complex ownership
attribution rules, our non-United States subsidiaries are likely to meet the shareholder test in a given year. It is also possible that one or more of our non-United States subsidiaries will meet the income test in a given year and be treated as a
foreign personal holding company. If any of our non-United States subsidiaries is a foreign personal holding company, then any undistributed foreign personal holding company income of that subsidiary may be deemed paid to us as a dividend, with the
result that you could be required to include currently your ratable share of such deemed dividend as undistributed foreign personal holding company income. In addition, your tax basis in the shares of the foreign personal holding company would be
increased by the amount of the income inclusion. However, we intend to manage the affairs of our non-United States subsidiaries so as to attempt to avoid or minimize having income imputed to you under these rules, to the extent this is consistent
with our business goals, although there can be no assurance in this regard. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Depending on a variety of factors, it is possible that we and/or any of our non-United States subsidiaries that are foreign personal holding companies may cease to be classified as foreign personal
holding companies in the future, although there can be no assurance in this regard. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Disposition of the Class A Common Shares </I></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">When you sell or otherwise dispose of your Class A common shares you will recognize capital gain or loss in an amount equal to the difference between the amount you realize for the shares and your adjusted tax basis in them.
Subject to any basis adjustments described in &#147;&#151;Foreign Personal Holding Company,&#148; your adjusted tax basis in the Class A common shares will generally be your cost of obtaining the shares reduced by any previous distributions that are
not characterized as dividends. For foreign tax credit limitation purposes, this gain or loss will generally be treated as United States source. If you are an individual and the Class A common shares being sold or otherwise disposed of have been
held by you for more than one year, your gain recognized will be taxed at a maximum tax rate of 20%. Your ability to deduct capital losses is subject to limitations. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><I>Information Reporting and Backup Withholding </I></B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">In general, unless you are an exempt recipient such as a
corporation, information reporting will apply to dividends in respect of the Class A common shares or the proceeds received on the sale, exchange or redemption of those Class A common shares paid to you within the United States and, in some cases,
outside of the United States. Additionally, if you fail to provide your taxpayer identification number, or fail either to report in full dividend and interest income or to make certain certifications, you will be subject to backup withholding. Any
amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules will be allowed as a refund or a credit against your United States federal income tax liability, provided that you furnish the required information to the United States Internal Revenue Service.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>
<A NAME="tx102_9"></A>SELLING SHAREHOLDERS </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">The following table sets forth, for each selling shareholder that is one of our directors or executive officers, the name, the number of Class A common shares beneficially owned as of March 30, 2003, the maximum number of Class A
common shares that may be offered pursuant to this prospectus and the number of Class A common shares that would be beneficially owned after the sale of the maximum number of Class A common shares. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="47%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Name</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="35" SIZE="1" NOSHADE ALIGN="left" COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Number&nbsp;of&nbsp;Class&nbsp;A</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>common&nbsp;shares<BR>beneficially owned</B></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Maximum&nbsp;number&nbsp;of</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Class A common</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>shares to be
offered</B></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Number&nbsp;of&nbsp;Class&nbsp;A</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>common&nbsp;shares<BR>beneficially owned&nbsp;immediately after</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"
COLOR="#000000"><B>sale of maximum number&nbsp;of&nbsp;Class&nbsp;A common shares</B></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff">
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="47%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Mark Foster</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="16%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">751,638</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="18%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">230,573</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="17%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">521,065</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="47%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Karl-Heinz Fl&ouml;ther</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="16%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">833,713</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="18%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">250,121</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="17%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">583,592</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR BGCOLOR="#cceeff">
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="47%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Masakatsu Mori</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="16%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">791,113</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="18%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">216,350</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="17%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">574,763</FONT></P></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="47%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Gill Rider</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="16%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">738,193</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="18%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">225,867</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="17%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">512,326</FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">In
addition to the selling shareholders named in the preceding table, a maximum of 34,077,089 Class A common shares now held by 1,508 partners or former partners or their Accenture-approved transferees may be offered. The number of Class A common
shares that may be so offered by each such selling shareholder ranges from 6,580&nbsp;to 1,189,875, and such selling shareholders may offer, on average, 22,598 Class A common shares. Certain partners and former partners hold their Class A common
shares through personal holding companies. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">No
selling shareholder owns more than 1% of Accenture Ltd&#146;s Class A common shares, and no selling shareholder will own more than 1% of Accenture Ltd&#146;s Class A common shares after the offers and sales contemplated by this prospectus.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We have been advised by our partners and former
partners in certain countries and by our external risk advisors that publication of net worth-related information subjects those partners and former partners to increased personal security risks. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<A NAME="tx102_10"></A>PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd and the selling shareholders, and their pledgees, donees, transferees or other successors in interest, may from time to time offer and sell, separately or together, some or all of the Class A common shares covered by
this prospectus. Registration of the Class A common shares covered by this prospectus does not mean, however, that those Class A common shares necessarily will be offered or sold. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The Class A common shares covered by this prospectus may be sold from time to time, at market prices
prevailing at the time of sale, at prices related to market prices, at a fixed price or prices subject to change or at negotiated prices, by a variety of methods including the following: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">on the New York Stock Exchange (including through at the market offerings); </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">in the over-the-counter market; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">in privately negotiated transactions; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">through broker-dealers, who may act as agents or principals; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">through one or more underwriters on a firm commitment or best-efforts basis; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">in a block trade in which a broker-dealer will attempt to sell a block of Class A common shares as agent but may position and resell a portion of the block as
principal to facilitate the transaction; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">through put or call option transactions relating to the Class A common shares; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">directly to one or more purchasers; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">through agents; or </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR>
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">in any combination of the above. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd may also deliver Class A common shares to which this prospectus relates upon redemption of Accenture SCA Class I common
shares, and, unless indicated otherwise in a prospectus supplement, no broker, dealer or underwriter will be engaged in connection therewith. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">In effecting sales, brokers or dealers engaged by us or the selling shareholders may arrange for other brokers or dealers to participate.
Broker-dealer transactions may include: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">purchases of the Class A common shares by a broker-dealer as principal and resales of the Class A common shares by the broker-dealer for its account pursuant to this
prospectus; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">ordinary brokerage transactions; or </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&#149;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="006" VALIGN="top">&nbsp;</TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers on a best efforts basis. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Neither we nor the selling shareholders have entered into any agreements, understandings or arrangements with
any underwriters or broker-dealers regarding the sale of the Class A common shares covered by this prospectus. At any time a particular offer of the Class A common shares covered by this prospectus is made, a revised prospectus or prospectus
supplement, if required, will be distributed which will set forth the aggregate amount of Class A common shares covered by this prospectus being offered and the terms of the offering, including the name or names of any underwriters, dealers, brokers
or agents. In addition, to the extent required, any discounts, commissions, concessions and other items constituting underwriters&#146; or agents&#146; compensation, as well as any discounts, commissions or concessions allowed or reallowed or paid
to dealers, will be set forth in such revised prospectus supplement. Any such required prospectus supplement, and, if necessary, a post-effective amendment to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, will be filed with the SEC
to reflect the disclosure of additional information with respect to the distribution of the Class A common shares covered by this prospectus. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We or the
selling shareholders may also authorize agents or underwriters to solicit offers by certain types of institutional investors to purchase securities from us at the public offering price set forth in the revised prospectus or prospectus supplement
pursuant to delayed delivery contracts providing for payment and delivery on a specified date in the future. The conditions to these contracts and the commission that we or the selling shareholders must pay for solicitation of these contracts will
be described in a revised prospectus or prospectus supplement. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">In connection with the sale of the Class A common shares covered by this prospectus through underwriters, underwriters may receive compensation in the form of underwriting discounts or commissions and may also receive commissions
from purchasers of Class A common shares for whom they may act as agent. Underwriters may sell to or through dealers, and such dealers may receive compensation in the form of discounts, concessions or commissions from the underwriters and/or
commissions from the purchasers for whom they may act as agent. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Any underwriters, broker-dealers or agents participating in the distribution of the Class A common shares covered by this prospectus may be deemed to be &#147;underwriters&#148; within the meaning of the Securities Act, and any
commissions received by any of those underwriters, broker-dealers or agents may be deemed to be underwriting commissions under the Securities Act. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We estimate that the total expenses in connection with the offer and sale of Class A common shares pursuant to this prospectus, other than
underwriting discounts and commissions, will be approximately $1,750,000, including fees of our counsel and accountants, fees payable to the SEC and listing fees. We expect that certain of the Accenture shareholders who will sell Class A common
shares pursuant to this prospectus or from whom we acquire or redeem shares as described in this prospectus will pay to us an amount equal to 3%-3<FONT SIZE="1"><SUP>&nbsp;1</SUP></FONT><FONT SIZE="2">/</FONT><FONT SIZE="1">2</FONT><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">% of the gross proceeds from the disposition of their shares, less the amount of any underwriting discount or brokerage costs. We will apply these amounts to cover all of the expenses of offerings to
which this prospectus relates, with the excess being applied to fund our share employee compensation trust. </FONT></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd, Accenture SCA and the selling shareholders may agree to indemnify underwriters, broker-dealers or agents against certain
liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, and may also agree to contribute to payments which the underwriters, broker-dealers or agents may be required to make. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Certain of the underwriters, broker-dealers or agents who may become involved in the sale of the Class A
common shares may engage in transactions with and perform other services for us in the ordinary course of their business for which they receive customary compensation. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Some of the Class A common shares covered by this prospectus may be sold by selling shareholders in private
transactions or under Rule 144 under the Securities Act rather than pursuant to this prospectus. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<A NAME="tx102_11"></A>LEGAL MATTERS </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Appleby
Spurling &amp; Kempe, Bermuda, will pass upon the validity of the Class A common shares offered by this prospectus. Certain legal matters may be passed upon for us by Simpson Thacher &amp; Bartlett as to matters of United States and New York law.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>
<A NAME="tx102_12"></A>EXPERTS </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The
consolidated financial statements as of August 31, 2002 and for the year then ended incorporated in this prospectus by reference to the Form 8-K filed on March 26, 2003 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report of KPMG LLP, independent
auditors, given on authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The combined and consolidated financial statements as of August 31, 2001 and for each of the two years in the period ended August 31, 2001 incorporated in this prospectus by reference to the Form 8-K
filed on March 26, 2003 have been so incorporated in reliance on the report of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, independent accountants, given on authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting. </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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</B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS
</B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Item 14.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</B><B><I>Other Expenses
of Issuance and Distribution </I></B><B></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The
following table sets forth the various expenses in connection with the sale and distribution of securities being registered, other than discounts, concessions and brokerage commissions. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="65%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">SEC registration fee</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">$</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">115,283&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="65%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">New York Stock Exchange listing fees</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;257,800&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">*</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="65%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Legal fees and expenses</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">1,000,000&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">*</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="65%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accounting fees and expenses</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">90,000&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">*</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="65%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Miscellaneous</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">286,917&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">*</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="65%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:7%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Total</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">$</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">1,750,000&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">*</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="65%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">*&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Estimated</FONT></P></TD>
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</TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Item
15.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</B><B><I>Indemnification of Directors and Executive Officers </I></B><B></B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The bye-laws of the Registrant provide for indemnification of the Registrant&#146;s officers and directors against all liabilities, loss,
damage or expense incurred or suffered by such party as an officer or director of the Registrant; <I>provided </I>that such indemnification shall not extend to any matter which would render it void pursuant to the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The Companies Act provides that a Bermuda
company may indemnify its directors and officers in respect of any loss arising or liability attaching to them as a result of any negligence, default or breach of trust of which they may be guilty in relation to the company in question. However, the
Companies Act also provides that any provision, whether contained in the company&#146;s bye-laws or in a contract or arrangement between the company and the director or officer, indemnifying a director or officer against any liability which would
attach to him in respect of his fraud or dishonesty will be void. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The directors and officers of the Registrant are covered by directors&#146; and officers&#146; insurance policies maintained by the Registrant. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Item 16.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</B><B><I>Exhibits.</I></B>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I></I>The following is a complete list
of exhibits filed as part of this Registration Statement, which are incorporated herein:<I></I> </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="94%" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Description</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="50" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="94%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Form of Underwriting Agreement.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="94%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Form of Specimen Certificate for Registrant&#146;s Class A common shares (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to
the Registrant&#146;s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A filed on June 9, 2001).</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="94%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Opinion of Appleby Spurling &amp; Kempe.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="5%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">23.1</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="94%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Consent of KPMG LLP.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="5%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">23.2&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="94%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="5%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">23.3</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="94%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Consent of Appleby Spurling &amp; Kempe (included in Exhibit 5.1).</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="5%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">24.1</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="94%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to the registration statement).</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="2%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">*</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="97%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">To be filed by a Current Report on Form 8-K pursuant to Item 601(b) of Regulation S-K if the securities are sold
through one or more underwriters.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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17.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</B><B><I>Undertakings</I></B><B> </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:9%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:14%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(i)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the
Securities Act of 1933; </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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COLOR="#000000">(ii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the
aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not
exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in
volume and price represent no more that a 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the &#147;Calculation of Registration Fee&#148; table in the effective registration statement; and </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:14%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(iii)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To include any
material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement; </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><I>Provided</I>, <I>however</I>, that paragraphs 1 (i) and (ii) do not apply
if the registration statement is on Form S-3 or Form S-8 or Form F-3, and the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the
registrant pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such
post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial <I>bona fide</I> offering thereof.
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:9%; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;To
remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing
of the Registrant&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 13(a) or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan&#146;s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to
be the initial <I>bona fide</I> offering thereof. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 15, or otherwise, the
registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against
such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer
or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question of
whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>SIGNATURES </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has
reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-3 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Frankfurt, Germany, on
April&nbsp;10, 2003. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><DIV STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right">
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3" WIDTH="43%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">A<SMALL>CCENTURE</SMALL> L<SMALL>TD</SMALL></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="3%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">By:</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="43%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;J<SMALL>OE</SMALL> W.
F<SMALL>OREHAND</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="43%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000">Name: Joe W. Forehand</FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1"
COLOR="#000000">Title: Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board</FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE></DIV><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B>POWER OF ATTORNEY </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">KNOW
ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Joe W. Forehand, Harry L. You and Douglas G. Scrivner and each of them, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with
full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her in his or her name, place and stead, in any and all capacity, in connection with this Registration Statement, including to sign and file in the name and on behalf of the undersigned as
director or officer of the Registrant (1) any and all amendments or supplements (including any and all stickers and post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith,
and (2) any and all additional registration statements, and any and all amendments thereto, relating to the same offering of securities as those that are covered by this Registration Statement that are filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) promulgated under
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and any applicable securities exchange or securities self-regulatory body, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and
authority to do and perform each and every act and things requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them, or their substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="36%" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Title</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="23" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="21%" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Date</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="23" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="42%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;J<SMALL>OE</SMALL> W.
F<SMALL>OREHAND</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Joe W. Forehand</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="36%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board (principal executive
officer)</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="21%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;April 10&nbsp;,
2003</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;S<SMALL>TEPHAN</SMALL> A. J<SMALL>AMES</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Stephan A. James</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="36%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="21%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">April 10, 2003</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;S<SMALL>TEVEN</SMALL> A. B<SMALL>ALLMER</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Steven A. Ballmer</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="36%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="21%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">April 10, 2003</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="42%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;D<SMALL>INA</SMALL> D<SMALL>UBLON</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Dina Dublon</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="36%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="21%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;April 10, 2003</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="36%" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Title</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="18" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="21%" ALIGN="center"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Date</B></FONT></P><HR WIDTH="20" SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000"></TD></TR>

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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;K<SMALL>ARL</SMALL>-H<SMALL>EINZ</SMALL> F<SMALL>L&Ouml;THER</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Karl-Heinz Fl&ouml;ther</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="36%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="21%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">April 10, 2003</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="center" WIDTH="42%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;J<SMALL>OEL</SMALL> P. F<SMALL>RIEDMAN</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Joel P. Friedman</B></FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="36%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="21%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">April 10, 2003</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;W<SMALL>ILLIAM</SMALL> D. G<SMALL>REEN</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>William D. Green</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="36%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="top" ALIGN="right" WIDTH="21%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">April 10, 2003</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;R<SMALL>OBERT</SMALL> I. L<SMALL>IPP</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Robert I. Lipp</B></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top" WIDTH="36%"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Director</FONT></P></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="3%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;B<SMALL>LYTHE</SMALL> J. M<SMALL>C</SMALL>G<SMALL>ARVIE</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Blythe J. McGarvie</B></FONT></P></TD>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;S<SMALL>IR</SMALL> M<SMALL>ARK</SMALL> M<SMALL>OODY</SMALL>-S<SMALL>TUART</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Sir Mark Moody-Stuart</B></FONT></P></TD>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;M<SMALL>ASAKATSU</SMALL> M<SMALL>ORI</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Masakatsu Mori</B></FONT></P></TD>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;C<SMALL>ARLOS</SMALL> V<SMALL>IDAL</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Carlos Vidal</B></FONT></P></TD>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;W<SMALL>ULF</SMALL> <SMALL>VON</SMALL> S<SMALL>CHIMMELMANN</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"
ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Wulf von Schimmelmann </B></FONT></P></TD>
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Jr.</B></FONT></P></TD>
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COLOR="#000000">/<SMALL>S</SMALL>/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;H<SMALL>ARRY</SMALL> L. Y<SMALL>OU</SMALL></FONT></P><HR SIZE="1" NOSHADE COLOR="#000000" ALIGN="left"> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000"><B>Harry L. You </B></FONT></P></TD>
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COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Cedar House </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">41 Cedar Avenue </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Hamilton HM12 </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">Bermuda </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Dear Sirs <B><U></U></B> </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000"><B><U>Accenture Ltd (the &#147;Company&#148;)</U> </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We have acted as legal counsel in Bermuda to the Company in connection with the preparation and filing by the Company with the Securities and Exchange
Commission under the Securities Act of 1933 of a registration statement (the <B>&#147;Registration Statement&#148;</B>) on Form S-3 in relation to a registration under which up to 35,000,000 class A common shares of par value US$0.0000225 each in
the Company (<B>&#147;Class A Common Shares&#148;</B>), may be offered and sold by certain selling shareholders (the <B>&#147;Selling Shareholders&#148;</B>) and up to 65,000,000 Class A Common Shares may be offered and issued and sold by the
Company. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The aggregate of 35,000,000 Class A Common Shares which
may be sold by the Selling Shareholders are collectively referred to as the <B>&#147;Selling Shareholder Shares.&#148;</B> </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The aggregate of up to 65,000,000 Class A Common Shares which may be issued and sold by the Company are collectively referred to as the <B>&#147;Company
Shares.&#148;</B> </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">For the purposes of this opinion we have
examined and relied upon the documents listed (which, in some cases, are also defined) in the Schedule to this opinion (the <B>&#147;Documents&#148;</B>). </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the authenticity, accuracy and completeness of all Documents (including, without limitation, public records) submitted to us as originals and the conformity to
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the genuineness of all signatures on the Documents; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the authority, capacity and power of each of the persons signing the Documents (other than directors or officers of the Company); </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that any factual statements made in any of the Documents are true, accurate and complete; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that there are no provisions of the laws or regulations of any jurisdiction other than Bermuda which would have any implication in relation to these opinions;
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that the records which were the subject of the search made on 14 April 2003 of the Register of Companies at the office of the Registrar of Companies referred to in
paragraph 7 of the Schedule to this opinion were complete and accurate at the time of such search and disclosed all information which is material for the purposes of this opinion and such information has not since such date been materially altered;
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that the Resolutions are in full force and effect, have not been rescinded, either in whole or in part, and accurately record the resolutions passed by the board of
directors or shareholders of the Company (as applicable) in meetings which were duly convened and at which a duly constituted quorum was present and voting throughout or by written resolution signed by all of the shareholders or directors at the
relevant time and that there is or was, at the relevant time of allotment, no matter affecting the authority of the directors to issue and allot the Selling Shareholder Shares or the Company Shares, not disclosed by the Constitutional Documents or
the Resolutions, which would have any adverse implication in relation to the opinions expressed in this opinion; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that, if any Company Shares to which this opinion relates are resolved to be issued by a committee of, or person authorised by, the board of directors of Accenture
Ltd, that committee or person is, at the time of issue, duly constituted or authorised with the necessary power to issue those Class A Common Shares on behalf of the Company; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(i)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that, when the directors of the Company passed or pass those of the Resolutions which are directors&#146; resolutions and any resolution referred to in opinion (3),
each of the directors discharged or discharges his fiduciary duties to the Company and acted or acts honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Company; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(j)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that the Selling Shareholder Shares to which this opinion relates are existing issued shares as at the date of this opinion and that, at the relevant time of sale of
any Selling Shareholder Shares by any Selling Shareholder, that Selling Shareholder is the registered holder of the Selling Shareholder Shares to be sold by him or her free of any encumbrance and that such Selling Shareholder Shares are fully-paid;
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>



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SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(k)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that the Company will, at the relevant time of issue and sale by it of any Company Shares, have sufficient remaining reserves of its authorised but unissued Class A
Common Share capital as at the date of this opinion from which to issue such Company Shares; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(l)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that, to the extent applicable to any issue of Company Shares, the Company will comply with the prospectus requirements of Part III of the Companies Act 1981 of
Bermuda in relation to that issue of Class A Common Shares; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(m)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that the Company will at the relevant time of issue by it, or sale by Selling Shareholders, of any Class A Common Shares to which this opinion relates, continue to
hold the permissions of the Bermuda Monetary Authority set out in the Document referred to at paragraph 5 of the Schedule; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(n)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that the price at which any Company Shares are agreed to be issued will be equal to or greater than their par value per share ; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(o)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that the Company will receive, at the relevant time of issue by it of any Company Shares, cash (or other assets) with a value equal to the full subscription or
purchase price payable by the subscriber or purchaser to the Company for the relevant Class A Common Shares; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(p)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">that, immediately prior to its continuance into Bermuda on 21 February 2001, Accenture N.V. was a company limited by shares registered and existing under the laws of
the Netherlands Antilles, with an authorised share capital of US$30,000 divided into 30,000 shares of par value US$1.00 each, of which 16,000 shares were in issue, fully-paid and held jointly by Vernon J. Ellis, Michael G. McGrath, Karl-Heinz
Fl&ouml;ther, Joe W. Forehand, Stephan A. James and David Hunter as the general partners of Accenture Holdings C.V. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>Opinion </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Based upon and subject to the foregoing, and subject to the reservations set out below and to any matters not disclosed to us, we are of the opinion that: </FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(1)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The Company is an exempted company incorporated with limited liability and existing under the laws of Bermuda and is in good standing under the laws of Bermuda.
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(2)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The Selling Shareholder Shares, when sold by the Selling Shareholders and transferred and paid for as contemplated by the Registration Statement, will be duly
authorised, validly issued, fully-paid and non-assessable Class A Common Shares of the Company. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(3)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The Company Shares have been duly created as authorised but unissued Class A Common Shares and, when duly resolved by the board of directors (or by a duly appointed
committee of, or person authorised by, the board of directors) of the Company to be issued and when issued and allotted, and paid for, as contemplated by the Registration Statement, will be duly authorised, validly issued, fully-paid and
non-assessable Class A Common Shares of the Company. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><U>Reservations</U> </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We have the following reservations: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(a)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We express no opinions as to any law other than Bermuda law and none of the opinions expressed in this opinion relates to compliance with or matters governed by the
laws of any jurisdiction except Bermuda. This opinion is limited to Bermuda law as applied by the courts of Bermuda at the date of this opinion. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(b)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Any reference in this opinion to shares being &#147;non-assessable&#148; shall mean, in relation to fully-paid Class A Common Shares, (subject to any contrary
provision in any agreement between the Company and the holders of such shares) that no holder of such Class A Common Shares shall be bound by an alteration of the memorandum of continuance or bye-laws of the Company after the date on which he became
a shareholder, if and so far as the alteration requires him to take, or subscribe for, additional shares, or in any way increases his liability to contribute to the share capital of, or otherwise to pay money to, the Company.
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(c)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Searches of the Register of Companies at the office of the Registrar of Companies are not conclusive and it should be noted that the Register of Companies does not
reveal: </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(i)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">details of matters which have been lodged for filing or registration which as a matter of general practice of the Registrar of Companies would have or should have
been disclosed on the public file but have not actually been registered, or to the extent that they have been registered have not been disclosed or do not appear in the public records at the date and time the search is concluded; or
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(ii)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">details of matters which should have been lodged for registration but have not been lodged for registration at the date the search is concluded.
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(d)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">In order to issue this opinion we have carried out the search referred to in paragraph 7 of the Schedule to this opinion at 9:00 am on 14 April 2003 and have not
enquired as to whether there has been any change since that time and date. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(e)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">In this opinion, the term &#147;good standing&#148; means only that the Company has received a certificate of compliance from the Registrar of Companies in Hamilton,
Bermuda. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(f)</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We have relied upon the contents of the document referred to in paragraph 6 of the schedule to this opinion for the purposes of this opinion. We have made no
independent verification of the matters stated in that document and we qualify this opinion to the extent that the statements made in that document are not accurate in any respect. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><U>Disclosure</U> </B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:-6px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">This opinion is addressed to you in connection with the filing by the Company
of the Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the purposes of registering 100,000,000 of its Class A Common Shares under the Securities Act of 1933 (as amended). We consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit
to the Registration Statement (including, for this purpose, any and all registration statements and any and all amendments to them, relating to the same offering of securities as those that are covered by the Registration Statement, that are filed
pursuant to Rule 462 (b) promulgated under the United States Securities Act 1933 (as amended) with the Securities and Exchange Commission). We also consent to the reference to our name under the heading &#147;Legal Matters&#148; in the Registration
Statement in the form in which it appears. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">This
opinion is addressed to the Company solely for the benefit of the Company and (save as referred to in the preceding paragraph) is neither to be transmitted to any other person, nor relied upon by any other person or for any other purpose nor quoted,
nor referred to in any public document, nor filed with any governmental agency or person without our prior written consent, except as may be required by law. Further, this opinion speaks as of its date and is strictly limited to the matters stated
in it and we assume no obligation to review or update this opinion if applicable law or the existing facts or circumstances should change. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">This opinion is governed by and is to be construed in accordance with Bermuda law. It is given on the basis that it will not give rise to
any legal proceedings with respect to it in any jurisdiction other than Bermuda. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Yours faithfully </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;Appleby Spurling &amp; Kempe </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>



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</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><U>THE SCHEDULE</U> </B></FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">1.</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">An electronic copy of the Registration Statement (which includes a prospectus in relation to the Company, excluding the exhibits to it). </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2.</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Certified copies dated 17 April 2003 of:&#150; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2.1</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the certificate of continuance of the Company; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR>
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2.2</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the memorandum of continuance of the Company; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
<TR>
<TD WIDTH="4%"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">2.3</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the bye-laws of the Company, </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(together, the &#147;Constitutional Documents&#148;). </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD WIDTH="3%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">3.</FONT></TD>
<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Certified copies dated 17 April 2003 of:&#150; </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">the resolutions of the sole shareholder of the Company passed on 12 April 2001; and </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">minutes of a meeting of the shareholder of the Company held on 9 May 2001 (together with a signed form of consent to the variation of the rights attaching to certain
class X common shares of the Company dated 18 May 2001). </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">A certified copy of an extract from the minutes of the meeting of the board of directors of the Company held on 10 April 2003. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%; text-indent:1%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">(The resolutions contained in the Documents
referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4 of this schedule are together referred to as the &#147;Resolutions&#148;). </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">A copy of a letter dated 25 June 2001 evidencing the consent of the Bermuda Monetary Authority to the issue and transfer of certain Class A Common Shares in the
Company. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">An officer&#146;s certificate dated 17 April 2003 and issued by M. Hughes (as assistant company secretary of the Company) confirming details of the authorised and
issued share capital of the Company as of that date. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The entries and filings shown in respect of the Company on the file of the Company maintained in the Register of Companies at the offices of the Registrar of
Companies in Hamilton, Bermuda, as revealed by a search on 14 April 2003 in respect of the Company. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<TABLE STYLE="BORDER-COLLAPSE:COLLAPSE" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%">
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<TD WIDTH="1%" VALIGN="top"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">A certificate of compliance dated 14 April 2003 issued by the Registrar of Companies, Hamilton, Bermuda in respect of the Company. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="right"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Exhibit 23.1
</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B><U>Independent Auditors&#146; Consent</U> </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">The Board of Directors and Shareholders of </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Accenture Ltd: </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"
COLOR="#000000">We consent to the use of our report dated October 10, 2002, except as to Note 20, which is as of January 31, 2003, with respect to the consolidated balance sheet of Accenture Ltd as of August 31, 2002, and the related consolidated
statements of income, shareholders&#146; equity and comprehensive income, and cash flows for the year then ended, incorporated herein by reference and to the reference to our firm under the heading &#147;Experts&#148; in the prospectus.
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COLOR="#000000">/s/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;KPMG LLP </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Chicago, Illinois </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
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</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000"><B>CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS </B></FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-3 of our report dated October
11, 2001, except as to Note 20, which is as of February 7, 2003, relating to the combined and consolidated financial statements of Accenture Ltd, which appears in Accenture Ltd&#146;s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 26, 2003. We also
consent to the reference to us under the heading &#147;Experts&#148; in such Registration Statement. </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
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FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">Chicago, Illinois </FONT></P><P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000">April 16, 2003 </FONT></P>
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