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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3千万，9 ^: ]& r( f/ Y# R2 R
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而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万' m! D* n, t6 |9 S! n
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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2 ^5 z/ Z+ Z qEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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Liberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.6 ^/ w0 J( J) H. G8 ]! p
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.
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5 h$ `# \( D$ ZDunn’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 $270 million.
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4 H$ H& d7 a+ |' }1 c( h" oDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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9 a3 g* `* x; TThe 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.' k7 p& _# b; Q, C" q. n
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.% D0 f5 j! x$ a5 ?- v
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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.! l6 |# n! C- v" ]
/ @ x9 x; y1 H% L( q& PMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.' ~7 S) R( x1 n, y
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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.1 e* j* V+ ]' z. D
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.' D: K% w' l4 X* ]) j8 z$ P) R
$ h# E! O* o9 m' {; NMacDonald 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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