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'<br>June 23 (Reuters) - IT services company Accenture Plc forecast fourth-quarter revenue below expectations and tempered its fiscal 2022 profit forecast on Thursday, threatened by rising inflation and the impact of a stronger dollar on its overseas earnings.<br>Foreign exchange headwinds have also forced companies such as Microsoft and Salesforce to temper their expectations for the year.<br> <br>A hawkish Federal Reserve and heightened geopolitical tensions have driven gains in the dollar against a basket of currencies over the last year.<br> <br>Typically, a stronger dollar eats into the profits of companies that have sprawling international operations and convert foreign currencies into dollars.<br> <br>Accenture, which makes more than half of its revenue from outside the United States, said it now expects a negative foreign-exchange impact of 4.5% in fiscal 2022, [http://oreficeriapezzera.com/forum/welcome-to-varsita/158963-nosara-cbd-gummies-reviews-anxiety-stress-pain?start=6 169258] worse than its previous forecast of a 3% forex hit.<br> <br>Shares of the company fell 2.8% in trading before the bell.<br><br>They were down about 31% so far this year as fears of aggressive interest rate hikes by the U.S. Fed to tame red-hot inflation led to a sell-off in the tech sector.<br> <br>After years of muted forex volatility, many companies are now scrambling to protect their earnings from the impacts of currency fluctuation, leading to increased corporate hedging.<br> <br>Accenture cut the higher end of its annual profit forecast range.<br><br>It expects fiscal 2022 [http://dig.ccmixter.org/search?searchp=earnings earnings] per share to be in the range of $10.61 to $10.70, compared with its previous estimate of $10.61 to $10.81.<br> <br>It also forecast fourth-quarter revenue to be in the range of $15.0 billion to $15.5 billion, compared with analysts' average expectation of $15.70 billion, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.<br> <br>The forecast reflects the company's assumption of a negative 8% foreign-exchange impact, Accenture said.<br> <br>Revenue for the quarter ended May 31 was $16.16 billion. Analysts on average had expected $16.03 billion in revenue.<br><br>(Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)<br><br>adverts.addToArray({"pos":"inread_player"})Advertisement'