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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询
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1 X! V4 E" h0 Z( L2 b e07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
0 j9 V, a8 W8 E' b) w" ^却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万9 a& ~/ w) B- Z& S, x" g
4 G, l4 u2 B1 HEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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/ u* l* A$ h$ VLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.2 z: f# V M6 v L
/ C- D4 H0 F' c/ [: iAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.0 C2 v4 U7 d9 M% Y- y
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Dunn’s annual report, released last week, said ATB earned a net income of $30 million in the 2007-08 fiscal year, a fraction of its $262 million target.
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets./ v( V! _" C- n0 ]3 Q
! p$ C% e4 j# {2 D: w$ PThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.; Y& g) | O* J g$ F+ u# m" z" f
, J$ c; C& }9 D: AATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.; _- a6 P; H" H
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.8 \' B J: Y3 p7 X( s [. ?
) T2 ?3 E k/ a3 y7 |, u0 l) [7 T) dMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer., P7 I. ^% ~* y5 o
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.3 z4 ]+ t1 D k- @; E2 h
" w; }" N2 C, e" t7 S“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.4 e; c& Z# @, W
m/ m. f' w" t' m* C! {MacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired.
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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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