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ATB
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这个纳税人拥有的银行6 t% u& e; G0 e" W1 m
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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" N; l0 k% }9 d: d5 _而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万" T6 V S6 V7 f0 }2 k$ X
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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* F8 Y' A" ]# h/ O" N, d+ zEdmonton — 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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# a( j3 l8 P* @ a7 v9 hLiberal 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.' l4 ~, t' S4 b
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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.) l; x' z+ A# Y* a0 }
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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.# W. V7 c B) h
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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4 d; P; ?: U, Q, B. q; k& ~3 UDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.2 k# a+ U7 m) o8 \$ k9 P& b
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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3 y3 g3 Q0 L0 v8 qThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed., d, s/ C. g2 S# C4 x
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.) _6 @) S* i3 i
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.6 o: Z; f$ [0 O" D& V
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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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./ Q8 l1 {# T8 Q' }0 @
, ~. R. J4 n, A' i0 n“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said./ ?. a _$ B6 n4 E3 G1 j# J
( |! z. C# Q; w7 WMacDonald 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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ATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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