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Revenue Recognition (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 29, 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 |  | Fiscal Year-to-Date
|  | Ended |  | Period Ended
|  | September 29, |  | September 30, |  | September 29, |  | September 30,
Type of Contract |  | 2018 |  | 2017 (1) |  | 2018 |  | 2017 (1)
Consulting services revenues |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Fixed Price |  | $ | 25,047 |  | $ | 23,330 |  | $ | 66,440 |  | $ | 70,235
Time-and-materials |  |  | 78,824 |  |  | 67,995 |  |  | 242,445 |  |  | 202,824
Total |  | $ | 103,871 |  | $ | 91,325 |  | $ | 308,885 |  | $ | 273,059
|  | Fiscal Quarter |  | Fiscal Year-to-Date
|  | Ended |  | Period Ended
|  | September 29, |  | September 30, |  | September 29, |  | September 30,
Geographic Breakdown |  | 2018 |  | 2017 (1) |  | 2018 |  | 2017 (1)
Consulting services revenues |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
United States |  | $ | 80,721 |  | $ | 70,910 |  | $ | 244,878 |  | $ | 217,609
United Kingdom |  |  | 17,253 |  |  | 13,572 |  |  | 47,317 |  |  | 40,444
Other |  |  | 5,897 |  |  | 6,843 |  |  | 16,690 |  |  | 15,006
Total |  | $ | 103,871 |  | $ | 91,325 |  | $ | 308,885 |  | $ | 273,059
| (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 |  | Fiscal Year-to-Date
|  | Ended |  | Period Ended
|  | September 29, |  | September 30, |  | September 29, |  | September 30,
|  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Reimbursable expenses |  | $ | 11,422 |  | $ | 9,675 |  | $ | 34,737 |  | $ | 29,463
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 September 29, 2018, CRA recognized the following revenue as a result of changes in the contract liability balance (in thousands):
|  |  |  | Fiscal
|  | Fiscal Quarter |  | Year-to-Date
|  | Ended |  | Period Ended
Revenue recognized in the period from: |  | September 29, 2018 |  | September 29, 2018
Amounts included in contract liabilities at the beginning of the period |  | $ | 1,505 |  | $ | 6,022
Performance obligations satisfied in previous periods |  | $ | 3,442 |  | $ | 8,834

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