From jar-skills
Guides selection and sharpening of accounting research questions for JAR fit, assessing accounting relevance, identification potential, and economic stakes before data work.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/jar-skills:jar-topic-selectionThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
- You have a dataset or a setting but not yet a question that matters for accounting
JAR publishes original research in all areas of accounting and accounting-related topics, drawing on finance, economics, statistics, psychology, and sociology. The journal's gravitational center is empirical-archival capital-markets research in the Ball-Brown tradition: how accounting information is produced, disclosed, audited, and used by investors, analysts, creditors, regulators, and managers. A JAR-fit question almost always (a) concerns an accounting/disclosure/auditing/standard-setting phenomenon, (b) lives in a setting with a credible source of identifying variation (a standard change, a regulation, a discontinuity, a shock), and (c) has clear economic stakes — it changes how we think information flows into prices, contracts, or decisions.
【Question】one sentence (about accounting information)
【Setting & identifying variation】shock / rule / threshold / staggered adoption / none-yet
【Economic stakes】why the magnitude matters
【JAR fit vs. TAR/JAE/RAST/CAR】fit / redirect because ...
【Track】Regular Manuscript / Registered Report / Ray Ball Conference candidate
【Data-and-code feasibility】reproducible package possible? sources ...
【Next step】jar-theory-development
npx claudepluginhub brycewang-stanford/awesome-journal-skills --plugin jar-skillsSharpens and tests research questions for The Accounting Review (TAR) manuscripts, checking contribution, identifiability, and journal fit versus JAR/JAE or section journals.
Tests and sharpens research question fit for the Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE). Distinguishes JAE from JAR/TAR/RAST, ensures positive economics-based framing, and checks data feasibility.
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).