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阿尔伯特省库物署
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大笔投资不赚钱
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
; \4 v- q# ?* h07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
: I# s$ c9 }) I9 e却用2600万给员工发奖金$ O. U- L |2 o/ F; K) S
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
& ~& u4 z: L) p( N+ M! l06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — 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.8 I9 Q7 }8 }6 b3 N* _# l& l
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Liberal 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.
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Auditor 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.3 x# x6 A# G% `' W: J( r1 ^8 x1 J
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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 $270 million.' l$ J& h& ]$ ~- Y( ]; Q
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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% I" ~. B% j) q/ I }+ wThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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% g5 c9 ` \- G. t( HThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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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.
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( R% G7 `: k" M9 K5 q; n- tMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer. R! \+ {7 D. D4 i# z
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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.% C. c3 l! u& Q4 ]9 y# k' Q5 e7 T0 E
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.1 Z% c' d4 C0 D* U X T0 [1 p
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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.* x4 D/ ` M9 y8 \8 v6 u
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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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