Pre-tax profits at Amdocs’ Irish arm fall 62% to €15m in 2009

PRE-TAX profits at the Irish arm of US software company, Amdocs, last year decreased by 62% to $20.1 million (€15m).

The drop follows revenues at the Dublin-based Amdocs Software Systems Ltd (ASSL) slipping by 17% from $957m (€715m) to $793.1m to the end of December 2009.

The Dublin-based operating centre for Amdocs employs 132 of the company’s 17,000 strong global workforce. However, the unit accounted for 28% of the software company’s global revenues of $2.8 billion in 2009.