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大笔投资不赚钱
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,& u" f& F- {4 E$ S
却用2600万给员工发奖金) C0 s% H* {$ F5 v8 x) k
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万' U5 P) k6 X$ y% e/ L" O
06-07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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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." D. B+ x; e+ ~; ^& S* B
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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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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.4 z- E3 X- v, {+ K4 a. Y% h0 [ C
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.- {! D2 I' C" t7 `8 j. ?5 {9 t& a
& q( i6 w; n1 s1 t( R5 @- R9 m( tDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.6 ?$ o( o# n S8 z q) G
) a0 F, C/ ~( F) u" \The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.' R: D8 Y, X* i& |& U& V* M m% c6 q
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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.7 u/ q5 q9 ?8 j- {3 s; m
. a+ }* x6 M) v" @3 m: h5 o2 a* \' DATB’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.
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! b; F! D$ b m3 n6 ?1 x0 |. FMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.# B) N/ A8 ^$ [# T+ W/ B7 T" V- 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.
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.! k' g4 a- u9 o; j- H* G9 G
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MacDonald 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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