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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金
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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" Q+ f1 F+ f/ f) Q
7 I6 y, i; d. jEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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" U2 h- k( R- J0 ]; aLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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4 y+ w: k& g$ G4 x$ ^' }2 xAuditor 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 $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.2 b. k) t' ]* p# x: E, M
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.; t, k" x0 \3 X; s0 p% s. t
N" [3 a' J7 W+ hThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.5 P I) Y. K2 ~% D5 ]
) \ { I% |, w8 |, ?“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.2 x( _, @& T- Y. O. C2 x
6 v+ W5 C& }. u$ @' q) M2 ]( j8 jThe 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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; o Q1 i, E4 s5 o" ], D8 r' f/ S' V“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.5 n6 h5 T x/ C; Q8 w- w
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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.
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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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