The Accenture Board of Directors updated the company's Code of Business Ethics in January 2014 to provide more guidance on social media use, legal compliance, and political contributions. The Code establishes ethical standards for serving clients, running business operations, and enhancing Accenture's reputation. It emphasizes that complying with laws improves business performance and reflects the company's integrity to clients, partners, and the public. The Code builds on Accenture's core values by detailing ethical behaviors expected of all employees.
The Accenture Board of Directors updated the company's Code of Business Ethics in January 2014 to provide more guidance on social media use, legal compliance, and political contributions. The Code establishes ethical standards for serving clients, running business operations, and enhancing Accenture's reputation. It emphasizes that complying with laws improves business performance and reflects the company's integrity to clients, partners, and the public. The Code builds on Accenture's core values by detailing ethical behaviors expected of all employees.
The Accenture Board of Directors updated the company's Code of Business Ethics in January 2014 to provide more guidance on social media use, legal compliance, and political contributions. The Code establishes ethical standards for serving clients, running business operations, and enhancing Accenture's reputation. It emphasizes that complying with laws improves business performance and reflects the company's integrity to clients, partners, and the public. The Code builds on Accenture's core values by detailing ethical behaviors expected of all employees.
On January 29, 2014, Accenture's Board of Directors adopted amendments
to the Code of Business Ethics. The purpose of the amendments was to update the Code of Business Ethics with respect to business and regulatory developments as well as to provide additional guidance and greater detail about various matters, including the use of social media, compliance with laws, and political contributions. Our Code of Business Ethics, available in 19 languages below, establishes an ethical framework of expected behaviors in everything we do, from serving our clients and running our business, to further enhancing our brand, reputation and transparency as a company. It specifically emphasizes that: Acting with integrity in compliance with laws is not just about doing the right thing and protecting Accenture. It has a tangible impact on our performance and reflects on our character as a businessto our clients, our business partners and the public at large. The Code of Business Ethics builds on our six core values by providing greater detail about expected ethical behaviors of all employees. The Code of Business Ethics provides this detail through a series of action statements associated with each core value that describe how we expect all employees and contractors to behave in relation to specific circumstances.