Company: CRAI
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001053706-25-000007
Chunk: 51

Company: CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 51
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 all of them, which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

Additionally, from time to time, we may derive a significant amount of revenue from contracts with government agencies in the United States. Because of this, changes in federal government budgetary priorities could directly affect our financial performance. This could result in the cancellation of contracts and/or the incurrence of substantial costs without reimbursement under our contracts with the federal government, which could have a negative effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Risks Related to Our Operations

Changes in global economic, business, health and political conditions could have a material adverse impact on our revenues, results of operations, and financial condition

Overall global economic, business, health and political conditions, as well as conditions specific to the industries we or our clients serve, can affect our clients' businesses and financial condition, their demand or ability to pay for our services, and the market for our services. These conditions, all of which are outside of our control, include but are not limited to merger and acquisition activity levels, the availability, cost and terms of credit, the state of the United States and global financial markets, including the impact of rising inflation rates, the levels of litigation and regulatory and administrative investigations and proceedings, global health crises and pandemics, political developments, geopolitical unrest or other conflicts in foreign nations, natural disasters and the potential impact such developments, uncertainties or further unrest could have on our clients, on the markets in which we operate and on general economic and business conditions. In addition, many of our clients are in highly regulated industries, and regulatory and legislative changes affecting these industries could impact the market for our service offerings, render our current service offerings obsolete, or increase the competition among providers of these services. 

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Although we are not able to predict the positive or negative effects that general changes in global economic, business and political conditions will have on our individual practice areas or our business as a whole, any specific changes in these conditions could have a material adverse impact on our revenues, results of operations and financial condition.

Our results of operations and consequently our business may be adversely affected if we are not able to maintain our current bill rates, compensation costs and/or utilization rate

Our revenues and profitability are largely based on the bill rates charged to our clients, compensation costs and the utilization of our consultants. We calculate utilization by dividing the total hours worked by our employee consultants on engagements during the measurement period by the total number of hours that our employee consultants were available to work during that period