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大笔投资不赚钱
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这个纳税人拥有的银行, I3 P% `0 L7 ?! g6 U2 X& F
07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，9 E) ?; A+ N9 }/ { I9 |2 h
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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& F+ C* w1 Z6 W1 ]2 r06-07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 $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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8 [; t5 L8 Q$ V4 c, d0 v2 JLiberal 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.* o5 t( Q B) O, M
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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.4 J" [+ l1 D7 A+ 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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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0 |: F. U9 ?) k7 B! x# WThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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/ m9 t4 C* \6 L5 M! \# o/ u8 s8 HATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.' s& o( ~2 v# G1 q" l( X: H0 C
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.1 T( G$ `: g o9 F
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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.
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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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: P6 ^- F$ G% H" P+ QMacDonald 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.( t( n8 S$ z8 x7 E' f! s0 g! H
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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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