• Data Privacy & Cyber Security Accenture’s Environmental, Social • Ethics & Integrity • Climate Change & Carbon Emissions • Responsible Technology and Governance materiality matrix HIGH & Innovation Y • Inclusion, Diversity & Equal Opportunity Following a full refresh in fiscal 2019, we completed relevant nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), VER • Enabling Clients’ our standard annual review of Accenture’s industry bodies and academics; new frameworks Sustainability • Employee Well-being & Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and good practices, such as the universal ESG eholders Engagement materiality matrix in fiscal 2020. Our goal was to metrics from the World Economic Forum; and the ak understand emerging issues—including the effects SDG Ambition benchmarks. We worked with our • Community Giving • Human Rights • Working Conditions of the global pandemic—and potential changes to Investor Relations team to understand emerging • Responsible Buying • ESG Management how we prioritize our ESG topics. investor requirements captured through our annual ance to St • Societal Impact • Talent Attraction, shareholder outreach process, and analyzed our t • Public Policy & Retention & Development We continue to capture the importance of our clients’ ESG requests and emerging priorities using HIGH Advocacy Impor • Water highest-priority ESG topics to our stakeholders and our client request tool, where we log and respond • Waste, including e-waste our business in our ESG materiality matrix. This to clients’ requests for ESG information (e.g., as serves as a consistent framework for articulating part of proposals or supplier compliance reviews). our priorities and engaging with our stakeholders • Nature, Biodiversity & about the journey we are taking. At the summary Wildlife level, the process we undertook was: Inputs to the business axis MEDIUM Inputs to the stakeholder axis We reviewed our business prioritization in light MEDIUM HIGH VERY HIGH of Accenture’s new purpose and governance changes, our new ESG targets, our Enterprise Importance to Business We used specialist third-party software to conduct Risk Management program, and other related Notes: detailed benchmarking and analysis of recent and impacts on our people and global operations. • Topics not included on this matrix are not considered relevant for our non-financial disclosures. • For GRI purposes, the outlined sections of the above matrix contain the most material non-financial topics in scope for reporting with emerging ESG issues across peers, competitors We also worked directly with a number of our the GRI Standards that are included in our GRI Content Index. For each topic, our list of definitions of material topics references the and others. We also reviewed the latest insights senior leaders to identify possible changes to specific Standards used as well as Management Approach information. This report has been prepared referencing the GRI Standards. For more information about these Standards, please visit the GRI website. on ESG materiality in the context of 2020 from our issues or how we prioritize them. • To view the high priority SDGs mapped to Accenture’s ESG material issues, please see page 65. United Nations Global Compact: Communication on Progress 2020 | 8