Income Taxes	3 Months Ended
Apr. 01, 2017
Income Taxes
Income Taxes	15. Income Taxes CRA's effective income tax rates were 38.6% and 46.5% for the first quarters of fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2016, respectively. The effective tax rate for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 was lower than the prior year primarily due to a more favorable geographical mix of earnings as well as the tax benefit on stock-based compensation related to the adoption of ASU 2016-09, partially offset by unfavorable discrete items in the first quarter of fiscal 2017. The effective tax rate in the first quarter of fiscal 2017 was lower than the combined federal and state statutory tax rate due to a favorable geographical mix of earnings. The effective tax rate in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 was higher than the combined federal and state statutory tax rate primarily due to a loss in GNU for the quarter that was not benefited, as well as other permanent items, offset partially by a benefit for jurisdictional mix of earnings. CRA has not provided for deferred income taxes or foreign withholding taxes on undistributed earnings from its foreign subsidiaries as of April 1, 2017 because such earnings are considered to be indefinitely reinvested. CRA does not rely on these unremitted earnings as a source of funds for its domestic business, as it expects to have sufficient cash flow and availability from its U.S. revolving credit facility to fund its U.S. operational and strategic needs.

Income Taxes

3 Months Ended

Apr. 01, 2017

15. Income Taxes

CRA's effective income tax rates were 38.6% and 46.5% for the first quarters of fiscal 2017 and fiscal 2016, respectively. The effective tax rate for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 was lower than the prior year primarily due to a more favorable geographical mix of earnings as well as the tax benefit on stock-based compensation related to the adoption of ASU 2016-09, partially offset by unfavorable discrete items in the first quarter of fiscal 2017. The effective tax rate in the first quarter of fiscal 2017 was lower than the combined federal and state statutory tax rate due to a favorable geographical mix of earnings. The effective tax rate in the first quarter of fiscal 2016 was higher than the combined federal and state statutory tax rate primarily due to a loss in GNU for the quarter that was not benefited, as well as other permanent items, offset partially by a benefit for jurisdictional mix of earnings.

CRA has not provided for deferred income taxes or foreign withholding taxes on undistributed earnings from its foreign subsidiaries as of April 1, 2017 because such earnings are considered to be indefinitely reinvested. CRA does not rely on these unremitted earnings as a source of funds for its domestic business, as it expects to have sufficient cash flow and availability from its U.S. revolving credit facility to fund its U.S. operational and strategic needs.