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大笔投资不赚钱
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L, I5 c/ B& w; B* U: {07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，
: U% X" B+ h7 P, K. c2 \, T却用2600万给员工发奖金
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万3 b/ o0 B+ P1 r1 ^& h
& g+ C4 e0 p! N/ u& ~; v6 {4 q: {Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.; w$ c/ j. e/ i# s
; s1 ?" ?, `5 s+ \9 r% @8 Q2 vLiberal 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.( I1 Q- D4 _& ]0 [$ ]2 g
" m) l# m/ Q6 N1 M! rAuditor 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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+ _* E% v. {1 O5 M1 ?2 `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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o6 N' T1 B. g2 G1 xIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.. n, E$ E) f2 d1 p* O) F% l1 ?! \
+ a0 J( F8 [ B, }The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.. o! X- w! }( O
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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.5 U& I4 J1 f) V$ r8 L* k
4 g2 ?7 N! O2 e% V; v1 l5 _ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.: |6 {. V5 e- W, D2 ~/ U8 {4 @
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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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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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. X4 z. a4 P- X( \( Q! RThe 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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( X5 o! N% e# S- 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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) h1 e. L, u+ e8 ^* x) Q; XATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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