AI & Jobs Accenture's First Bookings Dip Tests the AI Consulting Boom
Accenture's Q3 beat on revenue but new bookings fell to $19.3B from $19.7B — the first crack in the story that selling AI transformation is an infinite growth engine.
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AI & Jobs Accenture's Q3 beat on revenue but new bookings fell to $19.3B from $19.7B — the first crack in the story that selling AI transformation is an infinite growth engine.
AI & Jobs Accenture booked $865M in restructuring charges last September to exit workers who can't be retrained for AI. By Q2 FY26 (March) the firm had 85,000 AI/data specialists — beating its 80,000-by-year-end target. CEO Julie Sweet's April 29 Fortune line was that the hardest part is still ahead.