car-contribution-framingUse when turning results into an explicit contribution for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — articulating what the paper adds to accounting knowledge and to practice/standard-setting, adapted to whether the contribution is archival evidence, an experimental mechanism, or an analy
car-data-analysisUse when running and reporting the analysis for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — the right estimator for archival/capital-markets, experimental, or analytical-calibration work, robustness, and CAR's Data Integrity & Code Sharing Policy (code archiving, variable definitions, data
car-literature-positioningUse when positioning a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript within the accounting literature — identifying the conversation it joins, distinguishing it from closely related accounting/finance/economics work, and disclosing overlap with the authors' own related papers as CAR's author dec
car-methodsUse when the research design and identification are the bottleneck for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — choosing and defending an archival, experimental, analytical, field, or survey design and, for human-participant work, meeting CAR's mandatory ethics-approval verification. De
car-rebuttalUse when a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) revise-and-resubmit arrives — planning the revision and drafting a point-by-point response to two reviewers and the subject Editor, including any new analyses, robustness, and updated Data Integrity/code-sharing materials. Drafts the response; it doe
car-review-processUse when you need to understand how Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) evaluates a manuscript — the double-anonymous, two-reviewer process, the role of the subject Editor and the EIC who approves all acceptances, generative-AI rules for reviewers, and CAR's formal appeals process. Explains the p
car-submissionUse when running the final pre-submission preflight for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — Editorial Manager files (blind manuscript, separate title page, author declaration, ethics-approval verification, proof of payment), the $250/$600 submission fee, length/abstract limits, and
car-tables-figuresUse when building the exhibits of a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — descriptive/correlation/results tables for archival work, experimental cell-means and ANOVA tables, model figures, and appendices — formatted to the CAR Style Guide (each exhibit on a new page, variable definitio
car-theory-developmentUse when building the conceptual engine of a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — the economic or behavioral mechanism, predictions/hypotheses, or the formal model — adapted to whether the paper is archival, experimental, analytical, or qualitative. Builds the argument; it does not ru
car-topic-selectionUse when choosing or sharpening a research question for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — testing fit with CAR's deliberately method-agnostic, all-topic-areas accounting scope and picking the research tradition (archival, experimental, analytical, field, qualitative) that the que
car-workflowUse when deciding which car-* sub-skill to invoke next, or when sequencing manuscript work from topic selection through rebuttal for a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript. Routes — it does not replace — the specialized skills.
car-writing-styleUse when polishing the prose of a Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR) manuscript — a front-loaded research question, disciplined accounting terminology, the ≤300-word abstract that states question/predictions/method/findings/implications, and CAR Style Guide conventions (footnotes not endnotes, a