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; M3 n2 A1 K9 i) L! {) w0 C/ T' }大笔投资不赚钱9 H' z6 J/ S6 c7 M+ ]- F
反而发大笔的奖金& a" m5 \9 e! g) F5 p0 ?
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这个纳税人拥有的银行
1 s4 U6 p6 M( \. K/ ]% q07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
) `- b0 g! L7 Z) H' [# l却用2600万给员工发奖金
6 ~5 [+ t# R; Y6 H3 t+ {而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
5 I6 h+ B9 o9 c$ m2 ?3 A% ]# O3 j/ A06-07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 $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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8 n- H- X( `" @# R8 a$ u$ tLiberal 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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+ C2 T7 `# H, K+ PAuditor 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.5 q+ H3 j9 ~) L5 o7 S2 n) N
" E7 u9 }, p2 w2 }0 l8 ?& k; I! C! T/ YIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets./ J' R" g# c4 [4 w2 L4 |% ]; l
* i1 y- M8 W0 h$ }* wThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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# v( u. f. v7 m6 Y& m* @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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3 \+ X$ e& X* ` G7 \* P; R vATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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& X& I! V2 ~' {& u- Q9 v/ E“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.; y) p8 ^+ _( e
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.+ D" k7 Z9 O. l t! K
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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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+ z' p7 }8 a8 J% P1 T* D“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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$ h' A5 z9 P8 Z1 g$ EMacDonald 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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( j8 F3 h, N, r4 |* v% mATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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