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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).

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# 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
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