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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询
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3 W" U9 E" q* ]' A% u) H07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，0 N4 {4 i }/ P
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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! U9 H# `. r) h4 B06-07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 $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.! [$ o! ~- M) c4 t" z' 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.2 g; N; y2 z' @/ F
- i0 Q3 ~& x+ R& C. Z3 Z3 b/ [0 v; ]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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[ x$ @# _; M: m! b3 [' lDunn’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 $270 million.# w& s# X/ t% ~0 J+ \
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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( ]9 F6 Y/ g; p) q1 n! `The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote. l ?* w8 A! Y% t) R9 k
8 z e' X$ o G# fMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.6 b6 s1 r) \7 w8 ^
; ?+ L! `4 `4 e- EThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.
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) P' `; |2 i! O% T4 _* @“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.& X3 J9 e' {+ ^7 U/ p4 u
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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.2 f9 l8 d7 @9 @; U+ G$ u
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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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