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被政府调查质询
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/ N+ V, d& K+ J' f07-08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
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* C: C2 M1 T- B" j2 ~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.
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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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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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; {8 t0 S* e5 o! ^; t; fIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.2 s# N0 a/ C: i' y4 M- i
4 f4 w3 ^4 S) M6 b4 BThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.3 G: X- I9 z1 Y z) M& r7 S
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.8 y; z; H4 c9 R9 t* v
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.& H" B: g6 x( }8 v& ^+ K# L0 Y7 \/ C
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer. d- L4 A4 e: |' m1 ~. N6 v) |
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.& r0 n. ]- ?5 F$ `( V k* `
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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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P# d3 r9 A( D b# B7 d& W' SATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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