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Accenture on Friday reported an 8% year-on-year rise in revenue to $17.7 billion for the March-May quarter of FY25, supported by growing demand for AI-related services. The Ireland-headquartered IT services firm, which follows –a September-August fiscal calendar, also raised the lower end of its full–year revenue growth guidance to 6-7% in local currency from 5-7% earlier.The company’s Q3 performance included a modest positive foreign exchange impact of 0.5%, it said in a statement. Accenture’s gross margin for the quarter stood at 32.9%, compared with 33.4% in the same period last year.Accenture Chair and CEO Julie Sweet said, “We continue to deliver on our strategy to be our clients’ reinvention partner of choice and lead in Gen-AI,” highlighting that Gen-AI bookings for the quarter hit $1.5 billion, with revenues exceeding $700 million. Year-to-date, Accenture has secured $4.1 billion in Gen-AI bookings and generated $1.8 billion in revenue.According to the company, new bookings in Q3 totalled $19.7 billion, down 6% in US dollar terms. Of this, $9.08 billion came from consulting services and $10.62 billion from managed services. The Americas remained the largest contributor with $8.97 billion in revenue, followed by EMEA at $6.23 billion and Asia-Pacific at $2.53 billion.Accenture said its global workforce stood at 7.9 lakh at the end of the quarter. Its data and AI employee count has reached around 75,000, and the firm aims to expand that to 80,000 by FY26.The company ended the quarter with a total cash balance of $9.6 billion and expects Q4 FY25 revenues in the range of $17 billion to $17.6 billion.

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