• Issues related to Lean Six Sigma and creating business practice efficiencies at government agencies. Issues related to Executive Order: Improving Government Program Performance and the Performance Improvement Council and Performance Improvement Officers.
• Issues related to Lean Six Sigma and creating business practice efficiencies at government agencies including Border Fence Initiative implementation.

Duration: April 1, 2008 to April 7, 2009

General Issues: Government Issues, Homeland Security, Defense, Veterans

Spending: about $160,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2008: Office of Management & Budget (OMB),, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Transportation - Dept of (DOT), House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Veterans Affairs - Dept of (VA), Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Defense - Dept of (DOD)

Affiliated organizations: Accenture LLP

Related Foreign Entities: Accenture LTD (Hamilton HM 12, BER); contribution to lobbying: $0; ownership 85%