Accenture Ltd is a major consultancy operating in a whole
range of industries and commercial activities all over the world but
how many people would recognize the group of three letters ACN? ACN is
the Stock Market Symbol for Accenture Ltd. When an investor wants to
check the current price of his stock, or find news of companies in
which he holds stock or perhaps is thinking about investing in, he’ll
go to an appropriate web site and, in the search box, type the Stock
Market Symbol of the company concerned.
Next to that, there’ll usually be check boxes asking the searcher to
nominate share price or news. Next to that may well be another check
box offering the opportunity to find any symbol not already known.
There are numerous web sites offering services like that. The most
obvious ones are those of the stock exchanges themselves. NYSE (New
York Stock Exchange), the Toronto stock exchange, NASDAQ, the Paris
Bourse, London, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Tokyo all have web sites that
will have the information sought. There are plenty of other places to
get stock prices and news too. Sometimes, the web pages of the
exchanges themselves can be a little daunting - too busy and perhaps
with far more detail than most people need or want. The option then is
the web site of a financial publication like the Wall Street Journal or
in Europe, The Financial Times (London) or La Monde (Paris). Then there
are the magazines like Businessweek and Investors Chronicle.
Last in the possibilities for finding news and prices of stock, are the
Internet Service Providers like AOL, Yahoo and MSN. For the ordinary
individual who holds a small number of shares in a company, these
Internet Portals are probably as good a place as any to get
information. Usually, the home page will offer a link to "Finance or
Business page which will then have stock market data (as well as
currency exchange rates) very prominently offered and in a format
that’s easy to use and understand. Accenture provides services to
businesses as diverse as banking and airlines. Clients have included
The Bank of Montreal, one of Canada’s largest and British Airways, one
of the world’s most extensive - not to mention the United States Air
Force. The fields in which Accenture advise include procurement
strategy to manufacturing companies and transportation operators,
claims management systems for insurance companies and the installation
of sound distribution and recording systems to an opera house (La
Scala, Milan). It’s no exaggeration to say that Accenture is a
world-class operator in a market place that is truly world-wide -
there’s no country on earth (of any consequence) is which Accenture is
not active.
Accenture stock appreciated sharply from initial quotation in the
summer of 2001 and then took a dive in the mini-crash of 2002 but that
price has been very stable over the last year and a half. The company
is striving to capitalize on its reputation for excellence in
innovation and predictions for its future are very positive - many more
investors may soon be typing ACN into their web browsers.
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