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3 f) G: v" J1 y0 Y( }07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
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+ L7 _6 K! d1 `7 _" d; S& R而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
! P8 S" m# u' N" k06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万( D* q- y! k" }) o" D+ A# Z/ U& \
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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.6 v. @ ]4 C! h0 b1 c& g+ p' C! g
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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.
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+ a9 W4 j! K+ X1 PDunn’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.8 v% m! Q) G; O6 D) z( B; k4 A
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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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4 ~& G6 s/ b+ D/ n' X& A: IDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.2 e7 X6 F2 G+ f, @
$ @( t1 F/ n8 k; \. k* w6 mThe 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.
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- u4 U/ I3 D l4 R) KATB’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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer." e5 p6 Z1 u- E9 @, R( V! _
8 i" l+ q, T" F& ~The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that./ C$ C0 B% r+ M$ a& V6 |1 j
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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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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.7 w- g P& B/ C' ]5 }# A
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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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