Company: CRAI
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001053706-25-000007
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Company: CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7A
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Item 7A.    Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosure About Market Risk

Foreign Exchange Risk

The majority of our operations are based in the U.S. and, accordingly, the majority of our transactions are denominated in U.S. Dollars. However, we have foreign-based operations where transactions are denominated in foreign currencies and are subject to market risk with respect to fluctuations in the relative value of foreign currencies. Our primary foreign currency exposures relate to our short-term intercompany balances with our foreign subsidiaries, intercompany loans with our foreign subsidiaries, and accounts receivable and cash valued in the United Kingdom in U.S. Dollars or Euros. Our primary foreign subsidiaries have functional currencies denominated in either the British Pound or the Euro, and foreign denominated assets and liabilities are remeasured each reporting period with any exchange gains and losses recorded in our consolidated statements of operations. We continue to manage our foreign currency exchange exposure through frequent settling of intercompany account balances and by self-hedging movements between functional currency exchange rates and those in which we transact business. Holding all other variables constant, a hypothetical 10% movement in foreign exchange rates on December 28, 2024 would have affected our income before provision for income taxes for fiscal 2024 by approximately $2.9 million. However, actual 

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gains and losses in the future could differ materially from this analysis based on the timing and amount of both foreign currency exchange rate movements and our actual exposure.

Translation of Financial Results

Our foreign subsidiaries operate in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar. The functional currencies of our foreign subsidiaries are generally denominated in the local currency. Increases or decreases in the value of the U.S. Dollar against these currencies will affect our operating results and the value of our balance sheet items denominated in foreign currencies. Our most significant exposures to translation risk relate to functional currency assets and liabilities that are denominated in the British Pound and Euro. For our foreign subsidiaries whose functional currencies are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. Dollar, the unrealized changes in the net investments were losses of $2.9 million, gains of $2.8 million, and losses of $5.0 million for fiscal 2024, fiscal 2023, and fiscal 2022, respectively. These translation gains and losses are reflected in consolidated statements of comprehensive income.

Interest Rate Risk

Our primary exposure to interest rate risk is associated with our revolving credit facility, which has variable interest rates for our borrowings based on our consolidated