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AGEC $424$ AgBusiness Finance Academic Honesty Purdue prohibits "dishonesty in connection with any University activity. Cheating, plagiarism, or knowingly furnishing false information to the University are examples of dishonesty."  Furthermore, the University Senate has stipulated that: "the commitment of acts of cheating, lying, and deceit in any of their diverse forms (such as the use of ghost-written papers, the use of substitutes for taking examinations, the use of illegal cribs, plagiarism, and copying during examinations) is dishonest and must not be tolerated. Moreover, knowingly to aid and abet, directly or indirectly, other parties in committing dishonest acts is in itself dishonest." (See University Regulations, Part 5). The following are a few examples of academic dishonesty: substituting on an exam for another student substituting in a course for another student obtaining a paper from the internet and submitting it as one's own work arranging to give or receive answers by use of signals during an exam copying with or without the other person's knowledge during an exam doing class assignments for someone else plagiarizing published material or class assignments padding items on a bibliography obtaining a copy of a test in advance of its scheduled administration using unauthorized notes during an exam collaborating with other students on assignments when it is not allowed obtaining a test from the exam site, completing, and submitting it later altering answers on a scored test and submitting it for a regrade stealing class assignments and submitting them as one's own, particularly computer programs fabricating data destroying or stealing the work of other students In AGEC 424 academic dishonesty will be dealt with severely, including at a minimum that a student will receive a score of zero on any exam or other item for which academic dishonesty is discovered. There are several situations in AGEC 424 where collaboration is not only allowed but encouraged.  First, the problems in lab are done in teams -- you are obviously encouraged to work together.  Second, the term project is a team project. And third, you may consult with other students on homework.  Homework constitutes a gray area.  If you have any trouble, I want you to get help -- from your instructor, a TA, or from other students.  However, I expect you to hand in work that you understand, not work copied from files or from other students.  Doing so will not only risk a zero on that work, but it will also fail to prepare you for exams.