XML 81 R12.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT
v3.6.0.2

Special Charges | 12 Months Ended
--- | ---
Dec. 31, 2016
Text Block [Abstract] |
Special Charges | 4. Special Charges During the year ended December 31, 2016, we recorded special charges of $10.4 million. The charges are related to employee terminations in our Technology segment, health solutions practice of our Forensic and Litigation Consulting segment, and Corporate infrastructure group. The charges consisted of salary continuance and other contractual employee-related costs. There were no special charges recorded during the year ended December 31, 2015. During the year ended December 31, 2014, we recorded special charges of $16.3 million. The charges reflect the contractual post-employment payments and equity award expense acceleration, net of forfeitures of awards and annual bonus payments of former executive officers, the termination of the corporate airplane lease, the closure of the Company’s former West Palm Beach executive office and related lease termination, and updated forecasts of expected sublease income for corporate and segment offices previously vacated. The following table details the special charges by segment.
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
Special Charges by Segment |  | 2016 |  |  | 2014 |
Corporate Finance & Restructuring |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | 84 |
Forensic and Litigation Consulting |  |  | 2,304 |  |  |  | 308 |
Economic Consulting |  |  | — |  |  |  | 12 |
Technology |  |  | 7,529 |  |  |  | 19 |
Strategic Communications |  |  | — |  |  |  | 3 |
|  |  | 9,833 |  |  |  | 426 |
Unallocated Corporate |  |  | 612 |  |  |  | 15,913 |
Total |  | $ | 10,445 |  |  | $ | 16,339 |
The table below summarizes the activity related to the liabilities for these costs for the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015.
|  | Employee |  |  | Lease |  |  |  |  |
|  | Termination |  |  | Termination |  |  |  |  |
|  | Costs |  |  | Costs |  |  | Total |
Balance at December 31, 2014 |  | $ | 13,759 |  |  | $ | 4,854 |  |  | $ | 18,613 |
Additions |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | — |
Payments |  |  | (5,826 | ) |  |  | (1,212 | ) |  |  | (7,038 | )
Foreign currency translation adjustment and other(1) |  |  | (165 | ) |  |  | 403 |  |  |  | 238 |
Balance at December 31, 2015 |  | $ | 7,768 |  |  | $ | 4,045 |  |  | $ | 11,813 |
Additions(2) |  |  | 10,724 |  |  |  | — |  |  |  | 10,724 |
Payments |  |  | (10,264 | ) |  |  | (896 | ) |  |  | (11,160 | )
Foreign currency translation adjustment and other |  |  | (3 | ) |  |  | 186 |  |  |  | 183 |
Balance at December 31, 2016(3) |  | $ | 8,225 |  |  | $ | 3,335 |  |  | $ | 11,560 |
(1) | A fair value adjustment of $0.2 million and $0.4 million related to expected sublease income was recorded to “Selling, general and administrative expenses” within operating income in our Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income during the years ended December 31, 2016 and 2015, respectively.
(2) | Excludes $0.3 million in net non-cash expense reversals.
(3) | Of the $11.6 million remaining liability for special charges, $6.1 million is expected to be paid in 2017, $2.6 million is expected to be paid in 2018, $1.2 million is expected to be paid in 2019, $0.4 million is expected to be paid in 2020 and the remaining balance of $1.3 million is expected to be paid from 2021 to 2025.

X
- Definition Description of non-recurring activities related to our global branding strategy and other strategic branding decisions, a realignment of our workforce and consolidation of office locations, including related costs and liabilities. + References No definition available. + Details
Name: | fcn_SpecialChargesTextBlock
Namespace Prefix: | fcn_
Data Type: | nonnum:textBlockItemType
Balance Type: | na
Period Type: | duration

X
- References No definition available. + Details
Name: | us-gaap_TextBlockAbstract
Namespace Prefix: | us-gaap_
Data Type: | xbrli:stringItemType
Balance Type: | na
Period Type: | duration