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阿尔伯特省库物署
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大笔投资不赚钱# H2 w9 C3 j' T' ` g7 x: B
反而发大笔的奖金: o% ?0 q9 v% y/ _: ~- M
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2亿七千万5 p. X4 y. |) b" o$ J
1 e" A" k! g1 L& U1 @% {+ NEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday., m0 k0 Z6 r# _4 R* o2 l7 t# @$ R
8 N& L3 t2 o6 |5 y" g6 ^- C3 kAuditor 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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.* i( N7 }9 t8 `0 a5 K. v6 f' j
3 K: O% ?( `9 L# x3 n- JDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets. B) z7 a8 k, U4 N" N0 d& A. ~; v$ ^
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.0 h$ l1 R6 L% K1 h0 M7 _& v f
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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.
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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.# W, v2 ?+ s' A% v6 r, |4 B1 B
3 U( }9 F/ a- F; bMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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2 S( d2 \" T" NThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.3 X# A8 }# r/ n3 z
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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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+ k/ ^2 g0 Z/ W# a B; O2 PMacDonald 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.. \7 A2 V0 Z, Q' P$ [9 n
! P0 Q9 @5 A4 c+ C! _4 G; o, p9 `3 YATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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