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大笔投资不赚钱
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，8 q9 {: }8 L/ v+ c8 V! }* A
却用2600万给员工发奖金0 i$ h9 @! h7 j7 i2 o
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万 C' t# k2 r. E' b$ H
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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- ?2 n0 {( \1 o+ Z) } U5 o% [7 pEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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( l3 g5 k2 _/ f6 w& uAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.
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$ T) |; h2 S! o8 tDunn’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.- |6 ?& X; H( k0 u, a. ^# u9 \
' C, Q; F: d3 a- Y- ^7 L0 H. U! XIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.9 }5 ?/ n/ R4 B$ {* N1 b; \! ^
- n. p1 s3 L9 A& SDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.1 k b k' |0 c+ f6 u4 ~# {
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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: i) C/ ?5 x2 }& pThe 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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5 u( K# O1 l4 T" \) G9 xATB’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.% B. o# L' W! Y; T
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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! z: a8 |( o$ D1 O0 vThe 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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7 d1 \0 C4 q$ Z2 b/ `“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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* {1 F5 O# x, X) s% _! L- KMacDonald 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.& J; X+ Z/ Y' y9 \" o+ H& \
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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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