Resources Connection, Inc
Resources Connection, Inc. is a U.S.-based professional services firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Through its RGP brand and related businesses, it provides on-demand talent, consulting, outsourced finance and HR services, and crisis communications support to clients that need flexible expertise for transformation and execution work.
Fiscal year 2026 · change from previous year
Development 2021–2026
Business
Share of revenueFlexible professional staffing and expert resourcing for temporary or project needs.
Advisory and execution work across finance, technology, risk, compliance, and supply chain.
Regional delivery of on-demand and consulting services across Europe and Asia Pacific.
Fractional finance, accounting, and HR services for startups, spinouts, and scale-ups.
Crisis communications and public relations services for corporate and transactional situations.
Customers
The company serves businesses that need specialized expertise without building permanent headcount, especially for transformation, compliance, and transaction-related work. Its client base includes large and middle-market companies, with strategic relationships concentrated in CFO-led functions and industry verticals such as healthcare, technology, and financial services. It also serves startups, spinouts, and scale-up enterprises through outsourced back-office services, and organizations facing reputational or crisis events through Sitrick.
Buy finance transformation, accounting close, SEC compliance, FP&A, and ERP support because these are core buying centers for the firm's services.
Buy flexible experts and consulting teams for project work, transformation, and resource gaps across functions.
Buy specialized consulting and on-demand talent for industry-specific transformation and compliance needs.
Buy outsourced finance, accounting, and HR services through Countsy by RGP to avoid building full internal teams.
Buy crisis communications and public relations services from Sitrick during sensitive corporate events.
Strategy
The company is focused on expanding its share of client spend by deepening relationships with existing accounts and winning more work in strategic client programs. It is also building around higher-value solution areas such as ERP modernization, finance transformation, risk and compliance, data strategy, and AI-enabled digital transformation while refining its talent model to support those offerings. Pricing discipline, technology-enabled delivery, and selective expansion of outsourced services and regional coverage are central to its direction.
The firm believes current clients spend only a small share of their professional services budgets with it.
More specialized transformation work can improve relevance with CFO buyers and support larger engagements.
Value-based pricing and technology-enabled operations can support better monetization of expertise.
The business depends on experienced professionals whose skills must match changing client demand.
Geography
Q1/2026Resources Connection is headquartered in Dallas, Texas and operates through 41 physical practice offices plus virtual offices worldwide. The company serves clients locally while coordinating multi-market and international engagements, with dedicated coverage in Europe and Asia Pacific as a distinct operating segment. Japan is specifically called out in disclosures about foreign earnings, indicating a meaningful operational footprint in that market.
Share of the revenue the company reports by geography.
Risks
Demand for project-based professional services is tied to macroeconomic conditions, client decision-making, and labor-market trends, so slowdowns can reduce billable hours and delay project starts. The company also faces execution risk from cybersecurity, hybrid-work vulnerabilities, foreign exchange, and goodwill impairment, especially where acquisitions or regional operations are involved. Because the business relies on experienced talent and client relationships, pricing pressure and competition from large firms and boutiques can affect utilization and margins.
- Macroeconomic slowdown reduces client demandImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
Clients may delay transformation projects and reduce discretionary consulting spend when conditions weaken.
Exposure: On-demand talent and consulting
- Cybersecurity and systems disruptionImpact: HighLikelihood: Medium
Remote and hybrid work increases exposure to phishing, ransomware, and third-party software vulnerabilities.
Exposure: Global operations and client data
- Goodwill impairmentImpact: High
Reporting units are tested for impairment and weak performance can trigger non-cash charges.
Exposure - Competitive pricing pressureImpact: MediumLikelihood: Medium
Big 4 firms and local boutiques compete for the same transformation and advisory work.
Exposure: Consulting and regional delivery
- Foreign exchange and international execution riskImpact: MediumLikelihood: Medium
Revenue and costs across Europe and Asia Pacific can move with currency and local market conditions.
Exposure: Europe & Asia Pacific
Accounting
Judgemental itemsMost contracts are recognized as services are delivered, so hours worked and project timing drive reported revenue.
Impact: Utilization and bill rate changes affect quarterly comparability.
Reporting units are tested for impairment and weak performance can trigger charges.
Impact: Can materially reduce earnings and reported equity.
Recent acquisitions add transaction costs, retention accruals, and goodwill.
Impact: Affects operating expenses and balance-sheet intangibles.
Unremitted foreign earnings, including Japan, affect deferred tax liabilities and liquidity planning.
Impact: Can change tax expense and cash repatriation assumptions.
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Last updated: 24/09/2026