Company: CRAI
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-039429
Chunk: 86

Company: CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 86
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 independent registered public accountants. The audit committee is governed by a written charter adopted by our board of directors. A current copy of the audit committee charter is available through the Investor Relations page of our website at www.crai.com. During fiscal 2024, the audit committee consisted of three non-employee directors. Each member of the audit committee is or was “independent” within the meaning of the rules of the Nasdaq Global Select Market. Our management is responsible for the Company’s financial reporting process, including its system of internal controls, and for the preparation of the Company’s consolidated financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The Company’s independent registered public accountants are responsible for auditing those financial statements. Our responsibility is to monitor and review these processes. However, we are not professionally engaged in the practice of accounting or auditing. We have relied, without independent verification, on the information provided to us and on the representations made by our management and independent registered public accountants. In fulfilling our oversight responsibilities, we discussed with representatives of Grant Thornton LLP, or “GT,” our independent registered public accountants for fiscal 2024, the overall scope and plans for their audit of our consolidated financial statements for fiscal 2024. We met with them, with and without our management present, to discuss the results of their audits and their evaluations of our internal controls and the overall quality of our financial reporting. We reviewed and discussed our audited consolidated financial statements for fiscal 2024 with our management and independent registered public accountants. In addition, we reviewed the report of our management contained in our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2024, filed with the SEC, as well as GT’s Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 28, 2024 related to its audit of (1) the Company’s consolidated financial statements and (2) the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. We discussed with the Company’s independent registered public accountants the matters required to be discussed by Auditing Standard No. 1301, Communications with Audit Committees, as adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, including a discussion of the Company’s accounting principles, the application of those principles, and the other matters we were required to discuss with the Company’s independent registered public accountants under generally accepted auditing standards. In addition, we received from the Company’s independent registered public accountants a letter containing the