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大笔投资不赚钱; t9 p& V8 K" T
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
" `! C7 F3 E6 X07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,! N) K: V4 x% W+ K
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
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9 f3 i E9 a" { D# C4 p" N/ k. jEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.& o1 s7 s3 _) @* [. n# k% D6 Q/ n$ v0 z
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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.
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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.. ^' u1 s5 p- o" B( j* O8 C/ h! L
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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 $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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' _1 V0 g0 z5 y' k# ] B5 o' \7 JThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.& L0 m% s' E- b
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The whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.; M @8 ~2 ?+ k: p2 h5 i
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.: M$ V. F: \/ Z' X t
7 K; |$ J; }/ A2 [) A1 TMacDonald 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.2 m* |# x" C/ L6 c- ?0 Y( g5 a
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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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