car-contribution-framing
Use 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 analytical insight. Frames the contribution; it does not position the literature (car-literature-positioning).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill car-contribution-framing --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Contribution Framing (car-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - Results exist but the "so what for accounting" is thin or implicit - A reviewer says "the contribution is incremental" or "this is descriptive" - The discussion lists findings without stating what we now understand differently - You need to state the contribution in the abstract's required "key implications" ## CAR weighs "interesting and intellectually rigorous" contributions CAR explicitly seeks work that is *interesting and intellectually rigorous in all topic areas of accounting*. A strong CAR contribution changes how the field understands the production, properties, use, or consequences of accounting information — not merely that an association exists. State it as a claim the field did not previously hold, and frame it for both scholarship and the accounting community (preparers, auditors, investors, regulators/standard-setters), since accounting research is judged partly on real-world relevance. ## Frame the contribution by tradition The *form* of a CAR contribution differs by research tradition, and the framing should make the form unmistakable: - **Archival / capital-markets.** The contribution is new, c
- When to trigger
- CAR weighs "interesting and intellectually rigorous" contributions
- Frame the contribution by tradition
- Make implications explicit
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Contribution pass for Contemporary Accounting Research
- Output format
What does the car-contribution-framing skill do?
Use 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 analytical insight. Frames the contribution; it does not position the literature (car-literature-positioning).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill car-contribution-framing --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.