revacc-workflow

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# RAST Workflow Router (revacc-workflow)

## Overview

This is the router. It tells you **which revacc-* skill to use at the current stage** of a manuscript aimed at *Review of Accounting Studies* (RAST) — the **Springer** top-tier accounting journal edited by Paul Fischer (待核实; 检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). RAST sits squarely in financial accounting and reporting: disclosure, earnings quality and management, valuation and capital markets, analysts and forecasting, audit, taxation, and the economic consequences of accounting. Crucially, RAST publishes **three method lanes side by side** — empirical archival, **analytical (modeling)**, and some experimental work — and is known for methodological rigor with a relatively fast, well-run process.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as RAST. Operational tells that you are at RAST and not a sibling or a generic top journal: submission runs through **Editorial Manager** (Springer), with a **submission fee of USD $500 payable within 7 days or the paper is withdrawn** (待核实; 检索于 2026-06); review is **double-blind**; the journal advertises **prompt turnaround and an explicit tradition of making an accept/reject decision on the first round for most manuscripts** (rather than many R&R cycles); abstracts run roughly **150–250 words** (待核实); and there is a recurring **RAST Conference** whose accepted papers feed a **conference issue** while all conference submissions are also considered for the regular journal. Re-verify volatile specifics on the official Springer page.

## When to trigger

- The user asks "what should I do next?" with a half-built RAST manuscript
- A draft's current bottleneck — fit, model, identification, evidence, exhibits, prose — is unclear
- Work is ping-ponging between modeling/estimation, framing, writing, and the response letter
- A RAST decision letter arrived (often a terse first-round accept/reject) and the user must decide whether to rebut, revise, or redirect