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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，
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而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万/ H8 f7 |, L8 \
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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) F8 Z) @( X7 Z9 UEdmonton — 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.5 I+ F- c& X# ^9 X; K% A
" Q& O1 v- ~# F) T& ZAuditor 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 $262 million target.
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$ d) D9 \8 O/ y7 ^2 v, LIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million./ C V/ W2 C7 s! E, I
* n* }* @" T& T1 kDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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1 `6 U5 d. E( Y* _2 iThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.) F6 f$ Z' E7 g3 ~4 v2 o6 t
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.& ~ b5 J: a, |% x
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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.* T* W$ Z" d* ^ E% B- w
: e7 w! C( u) N, n, `& ]MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.4 T; f7 Z) ]* B6 `. u1 o
. Z6 w$ R9 o/ j$ b% F" ]The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.& [3 o) ~! |7 b
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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.
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" y2 U% `4 n* J% ?ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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