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阿尔伯特省库物署
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4 L) o+ J- Q. L9 W; E a大笔投资不赚钱" k# ^. L2 q2 u% p6 d
反而发大笔的奖金6 l$ M% f) v8 B1 E
被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万. @! p, {) o4 V0 [% g% P% b
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Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.7 l! c8 J2 M8 D+ G, H0 w
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.: w& f( J2 A) ~, a6 a) S$ o( N. W
& J6 n: _* a0 X* l- O X, _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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0 c/ j" |7 Q. s& r" C7 ^& [% nDunn’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 $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.! M& k: k8 T- J9 J$ S$ h
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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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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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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.! W5 J! v' M" E* }. t: X( m( c
9 B4 B e; i- ]/ E3 L0 B“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.# {0 b1 b4 a5 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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- a# V' j0 l, e4 VThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.- x7 J+ N7 `% X% T5 B% P3 f
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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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# ^) y. z; E0 oMacDonald 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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: N% u+ s) ]1 m# vATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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