Accenture PLC (ACN) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning. Thank you for standing by. Welcome to Accenture's second quarter fiscal 2026 conference call. At this time, all participants will be in listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, we will conduct a question and answer session. To ask a question, you may press star then one on your telephone keypad, and to withdraw your question, please press star then two. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Alexia Quadrani, Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations. Please go ahead. Thank you, Operator, and thanks, everyone, for joining us today on our second quarter 2026 earnings announcement. As the Operator just mentioned, I'm Alexia Quadrani, Executive Director and Head of Investor Relations. On today's call, you will hear from Julie Sweet, our chair and chief executive officer, and Angie Park, our chief financial officer. We hope you've had an opportunity to review the news release we issued a short time ago. Let me quickly outline the agenda for today's call. Julie will begin an overview of our results. Angie will take you through the financial details, including the income statement and balance sheet, along with some key operational metrics for the second quarter. Julie will then provide a brief update on our market positioning before Angie provides our business outlook for the third quarter and full fiscal year 2026. We will then take your questions before Julie provides a wrap-up at the end of the call. Some of the matters we'll discuss on this call, including our business outlook, are forward-looking and as such are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including but...