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Guides researchers in selecting and sharpening a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript question, testing fit with CAR's method-agnostic scope and choosing the appropriate research tradition (archival, experimental, analytical, field, qualitative).
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
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/car-skills:car-topic-selectionThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- You have a phenomenon or dataset but no sharp accounting research question
CAR welcomes "interesting and intellectually rigorous work in all topic areas of accounting, using any appropriate method, and based in any discipline or research tradition." This is a genuine big-tent mandate: financial reporting, auditing and assurance, managerial/cost accounting, taxation, disclosure, accounting information in capital markets, governance, and accounting's role in organizations and society are all in scope. The defining test is therefore not method but whether the question advances understanding of accounting — its production, properties, use, or consequences. A question that merely uses accounting data to answer a pure-finance asset-pricing or pure-economics question is a weaker fit than one whose answer changes how we understand accounting itself.
CAR's broad scope means the same topic can be pursued several ways; choose the tradition that can actually deliver the inference:
| If the question is about… | Lean toward… |
|---|---|
| Capital-market consequences of reporting/disclosure | Archival / capital-markets empirical |
| How preparers, auditors, or investors process information | Experiment (causal, mechanism) |
| Optimal contracting, disclosure incentives, equilibria | Analytical / modeling |
| Practice inside firms, audit teams, or standard-setting | Field study / qualitative |
| A new construct's measurement or external validity | Survey, or multi-method triangulation |
car-methods).Use this as a second-pass capability check. First lock the accounting construct, setting, identification or theory, and disclosure/market/organizational implication; then test whether the manuscript addresses accounting reviewers who expect accounting-specific constructs, credible design, and contribution to reporting, auditing, tax, or governance debates.
claim / evidence / blocker / next edit rows so the next pass can patch the manuscript directly.resources/official-source-map.md for volatile rules and name the one unresolved fact that could change the recommendation.【Question】one sentence: phenomenon / who / consequence ...
【CAR fit】advances accounting understanding? broad-tent area ...
【Tradition】archival / experimental / analytical / field / qualitative — why ...
【Tension】competing predictions or puzzle ...
【Feasibility】data/instrument; ethics if human subjects ...
【Next step】car-theory-development
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin car-skillsSharpens and tests research questions for The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscripts, checking contribution, identifiability, and journal fit versus JAR/JAE or section journals.
Guides selection and sharpening of accounting research questions for JAR fit, assessing accounting relevance, identification potential, and economic stakes before data work.
Routes to the appropriate car-* sub-skill for Contemporary Accounting Research manuscript tasks, from topic selection through rebuttal. Invoke when deciding next step in a CAR manuscript workflow.