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大笔投资不赚钱6 l6 t9 g# P) t" u
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- Q. K! U! r. [7 p3 O2 r( ], ~07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,0 B6 f2 B; j4 x
却用2600万给员工发奖金8 ^4 n0 [, [! w
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万" s/ X7 S/ L) L3 k. m# e! c
06-07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.# D' M0 J% z, u
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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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) R/ Y0 D: K, z) h. O7 k# G( bAuditor 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.
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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 $262 million target.; R e' I2 _3 g" L$ U% J/ H
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.- W8 R. i- K3 o1 x4 g
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake. G0 ^5 q/ V8 |; I
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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6 I* q% H9 Z& x3 H% q4 bATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.' K0 ^, q% v3 g& d4 ^
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.& ]1 d/ h# y t+ i$ x4 y
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.* ]7 ^# S$ A: k
% N$ y) I& [& b2 h& q/ d- bThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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7 }' W. N, I' |/ ~/ RMacDonald 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.+ f7 H: q$ b( v' Y- [9 b* V. Q* v
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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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