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大笔投资不赚钱
( P. {3 ?' b9 `7 p/ A4 S反而发大笔的奖金
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9 u6 K# t2 j0 z. n" f07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，1 X7 I* i& ?$ j
却用2600万给员工发奖金
5 b& L1 [ r" \. q) c而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
0 N$ c! L M Z5 l* a06-07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 $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.: h- ~' g3 z& k0 w1 _; V3 H% Z) H! j
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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. l$ \* O1 E* @! X0 f: J$ A6 ~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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$ b8 | a9 U! {0 Y7 X* e3 DDunn’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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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+ f; f( _4 z( {, {Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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5 d4 T* N+ Y a6 _6 T6 XThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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( s7 }7 o9 G+ `. ]ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.7 ^. i. B( f' G$ N, O
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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.$ q# `) m8 P& O9 s* e
& E# P8 m0 C) T; \MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.0 t' t8 U' j7 F4 r
5 A1 Z( k5 Z; O; Q6 y/ sThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.8 F s1 S3 y( q& Y+ j
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.- x% e9 c6 F" Q' N
: r! k+ T9 V6 ? w2 xMacDonald 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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" _3 {+ `% q% _; E& @( fATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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