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Revenue Recognition (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Apr. 02, 2022
Revenue from Contract with Customer [Abstract] |
Schedule of disaggregate CRA's revenue by type of contract and geographic location | The following tables disaggregate CRA’s revenue by type of contract and geographic location (in thousands):
|  | Fiscal Quarter Ended |  |
Type of Contract |  | April 2, 2022 |  | April 3, 2021 |  |  |  |
Consulting services revenues: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Fixed-price |  | $ | 28,773 |  |  | $ | 33,433 |  |  |  |  |
Time-and-materials |  | 119,609 |  |  | 113,085 |  |  |  |  |
Total |  | $ | 148,382 |  |  | $ | 146,518 |  |  |  |  |
|  | Fiscal Quarter Ended |  |
Geographic Breakdown |  | April 2, 2022 |  | April 3, 2021 |  |  |  |
Consulting services revenues: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
United States |  | $ | 116,919 |  |  | $ | 117,247 |  |  |  |  |
United Kingdom |  | 22,410 |  |  | 23,286 |  |  |  |  |
Other |  | 9,053 |  |  | 5,985 |  |  |  |  |
Total |  | $ | 148,382 |  |  | $ | 146,518 |  |  |  |  |
Schedule of bad debt expense, net of recoveries | The following table presents CRA's bad debt expense, net of recoveries, of previously written off allowances (in thousands):
|  | Fiscal Quarter Ended |  |
|  | April 2, 2022 |  | April 3, 2021 |  |  |  |
Bad debt expense (recovery), net |  | $ | (121) |  |  | $ | (13) |  |  |  |  |
Schedule of expenses are subject to reimbursement | The following expenses are subject to reimbursement (in thousands):
|  | Fiscal Quarter Ended |  |
|  | April 2, 2022 |  | April 3, 2021 |  |  |  |
Reimbursable expenses |  | $ | 16,204 |  |  | $ | 16,479 |  |  |  |  |
Schedule of opening and closing balances and result of changes in contract liability balance (in thousands) | The following table presents the closing balances of CRA's contract liabilities (in thousands):
|  | April 2, 2022 |  | January 1, 2022
Contract liabilities |  | $ | 4,572 |  |  | $ | 8,811 |
CRA recognized the following revenue that was included in the contract liabilities balance as of the opening of the respective period or for performance obligations satisfied in previous periods (in thousands):
|  | Fiscal Quarter Ended |  |
|  | April 2, 2022 |  | April 3, 2021 |  |  |  |
Amounts included in contract liabilities at the beginning of the period |  | $ | 6,543 |  |  | $ | 4,355 |  |  |  |  |
Performance obligations satisfied in previous periods |  | $ | 1,665 |  |  | $ | 2,183 |  |  |  |  |

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