87 billion, the company is showing growth in many areas. The internal financial analysis of the company gave following figures: Year 2012 2011 2010 Liquidity Ratios Current Ratio Cash Ratio 21% 27% 36% Quick Ratio Profitability Ratios Operating Margin 10% 11% 11% Profit Margin 3% 4% 3% Pre-Tax ROE 30% 41% 55% After Tax ROE 16% 23% 29% Data Interpretation The company's ratio analysis shows that the current ratio has decreased over period (HMA Company Financials, 2013)
The company's financial health can also be improved by managing overhead costs. The overhead costs have an inverse impact on the company's profitability (Newman, 2007)
S. Supreme Court ruled against them in several cases challenging the constitutionality (under the First Amendment) of state prohibitions of what they claimed was a religious practice (Dougherty & Johnson, 2007)
Ironically, while this arrangement may conflict tremendously with contemporary notions of the concept and definition of marriage, it is often much healthier than the manner in which traditional marriages are affected by infidelity. Specifically, marital infidelity is virtually epidemic in traditional marriage, with even conservative statistical evidence suggesting that as many as three-quarters of all traditional American marriages experience at least one episode of sexual infidelity during the marriage (Gerrig & Zimbardo, 2007)
S. where polygamy is illegal, there are no such prohibitions whatsoever prohibiting consensual adults from maintaining polygamous sexual relationships provided the individuals involved do not seek to formalize their relationships in a state-recognized marriage (Henslin, 2002)
Generally, polygamous marriages begin with a traditional marriage arrangement of one man and one woman rather than a pre-existing dating relationship or courtship involving a third party. Most often, the married partners are mutually involved in incorporating subsequent partners into the marriage (Macionis, 2003)
It was commonly practiced in ancient times and is referenced throughout the Old and New Testaments. In modern human societies, polygamy is still practiced in numerous countries but is prohibited by state and federal law in the United States (Witte, 2008)
Yet polygamy among Mormon sects still exists today and represents an interesting lens with which to view this concept from the American perspective. Polygamy is relatively commonplace in Saudi Arabia, where men can take up to four wives (Aarts and Nonneman, 2005)
From the standpoint of a polygamous culture, women have generally a lower societal value than men. Women cannot take multiple husbands, and in Saudi Arabia as well as in many Mormon sects, the wives are to be subordinate to their husbands at the risk of social ostracization or other harsher punishments (Ahmed, 1982)
This is interesting because it shows that a sense of community is centered not on the number of wives and the family structure per se, but on the inclusion of the individual in their every day life and the practicality of their routines and their daily existence. Community, in Saudi Arabia, is affected by polygamy, and it is beginning to appear as though Saudi community ties are being established on the individual level, and come from defining an individual's value to society and not their family's worth or potential for child creation (Al Rasheed, 1997)
This creates a cultural and social value for women, and they are not to be subjugated or limited by the men in their lives. The Mormon sects that still embrace the practice of polygamy use women as status symbols or symbols of religious power and purity (Altman and Ginat, 1996)
The cultural and community implications of this practice in Saudi Arabia are far different than those within certain Mormon sects in the United States. The Saudi culture of polygamy goes back thousands of years, and religiously, like the Mormon sects, polygamy is supported through scripture (Embry, 1987)
Much in the way the Saudi's use polygamy. But instead of changing with the times and realizing that polygamy is no longer practical in the modern world, the Mormon sects choose to cut themselves off from modernity to a large degree, maintaining the social order and polygamy as a reflection of religious power and might (Iversen, 1984)
But in the Saudi society, modern-day polygamists are a dying breed, existing as symbols of how higher status men were previously supposed to behave (Souryal, 1987). Polygamy is far too awkward and requires too much attention from the husband for many in the Saudi middle class to adopt the practice (Rugh, 1973)
In places where children have a labor value, polygamy makes sense culturally as well as logically. But in the Saudi society, modern-day polygamists are a dying breed, existing as symbols of how higher status men were previously supposed to behave (Souryal, 1987)
In a polygamous relationship, there are unique relationships between the wives, as well as between the husband and each individual wives. "Each husband-wife pair in a plural family achieves a unique and distinctive relationship from other couples in the family" (Altman and Ginat 337)
Ironically, the Mormon Church is saner on its political stance than the United States Supreme Court. The Mormon Church condemns gay marriage as well as plural marriage (Hall)
Polygamy On the surface, and with the most shallow of analyses, polygamy would seem to be protected by the First Amendment freedom of religion clause because polygamy in the United States is mainly a phenomenon among specific religious groups -- namely Mormons, fundamentalist Christians, and Muslims (Turley). In fact, even a polygamous marriage that was not rooted in religious tradition could be protected under the Due Process clause, which basically encompasses right to privacy (Hamilton)
Maybe it would, and maybe it should. Denying gay couples the right to marry violates state constitutional guarantees of equality, as the California and Massachusetts high courts have rightly ruled," (Kaminer)
Polygamy On the surface, and with the most shallow of analyses, polygamy would seem to be protected by the First Amendment freedom of religion clause because polygamy in the United States is mainly a phenomenon among specific religious groups -- namely Mormons, fundamentalist Christians, and Muslims (Turley)