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ATB
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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
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0 v& R$ g2 { h9 V& w9 C. _& CEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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- L6 f9 p+ p" n* ZLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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( t7 h7 }3 k3 @4 T4 K4 IAuditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.% H' v$ [# l7 A% M1 g, B( X5 h
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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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* E4 z* p; F" m- h( j# U3 ZIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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% o) s/ s6 r- W0 `) UDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.# R7 e& _4 q' j, e, ~: ?1 L; T6 U; \
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake." L X6 j x# H, J
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.& k8 I ]3 Y1 I& ]! |% l7 u; N* ~6 ?
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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( ?3 M5 s4 T& x3 C" g7 o9 WMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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8 O: t* \9 l8 C7 Z y, W- dThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.
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9 j* r2 b# d4 f% ?“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.& x6 k3 G5 d0 c+ u, f+ I
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MacDonald said he’s also worried about Dunn’s finding that criminal background checks on new employees are taking up to three weeks after they’ve been hired.$ D8 W5 [8 Y- d% q
) }6 _3 l" s0 d' EATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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