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Revenue Recognition (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2018
Revenue Recognition |
Schedule of company's disaggregation of revenue by major business line and Geographic Breakdown | Refer to Note 12 to CRA's consolidated financial statements included in the annual report on Form 10-K for fiscal 2017, which was filed with the SEC on March 12, 2018, for further detail on revenues by geographical location (in thousands).
|  | Fiscal Quarter Ended |  | Fiscal Year-to-Date Period Ended |
Type of Contract |  | June 30, 2018 |  | July 1, 2017(1) |  | June 30, 2018 |  | July 1, 2017(1) |
Consulting services revenues |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Fixed Price |  | $ | 20,666 |  | $ | 28,203 |  | $ | 41,385 |  | $ | 46,978 |
Time-and-materials |  |  | 84,872 |  |  | 65,360 |  |  | 163,629 |  |  | 134,756 |
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Total |  | $ | 105,538 |  | $ | 93,563 |  | $ | 205,014 |  | $ | 181,734 |
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|  | Fiscal Quarter Ended |  | Fiscal Year-to-Date Period Ended |
Geographic Breakdown |  | June 30, 2018 |  | July 1, 2017(1) |  | June 30, 2018 |  | July 1, 2017(1) |
Consulting services revenues |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
United States |  | $ | 85,751 |  | $ | 74,564 |  | $ | 164,157 |  | $ | 146,698 |
United Kingdom |  |  | 14,858 |  |  | 13,944 |  |  | 30,064 |  |  | 26,873 |
Other |  |  | 4,929 |  |  | 5,055 |  |  | 10,793 |  |  | 8,163 |
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Total |  | $ | 105,538 |  | $ | 93,563 |  | $ | 205,014 |  | $ | 181,734 |
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(1) | As noted above, prior period amounts have not been adjusted under the modified retrospective method.
Schedule of reimbursable expenses included in revenues | Reimbursable expenses are as follows (in thousands):
|  | Fiscal Quarter Ended |  | Fiscal Year-to-Date Period Ended |
|  | June 30, 2018 |  | July 1, 2017 |  | June 30, 2018 |  | July 1, 2017 |
Reimbursable expenses |  | $ | 12,087 |  | $ | 10,648 |  | $ | 23,315 |  | $ | 19,788 |
Schedule of revenue recognized as a result of changes in the contract liability balance | During the fiscal quarter and fiscal year-to-date period ended June 30, 2018, CRA recognized the following revenue as a result of changes in the contract liability balance (in thousands):
Revenue recognized in the period from: |  | Fiscal Quarter Ended June 30, 2018 |  | Fiscal Year-to-Date Period Ended June 30, 2018 |
Amounts included in the contract liability at the beginning of the period |  | $ | 1,532 |  | $ | 4,517 |
Performance obligations satisfied in previous periods |  | $ | 3,253 |  | $ | 5,392 |

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