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大笔投资不赚钱
@; t* h7 _$ F0 p: E' S反而发大笔的奖金
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( T* {% ^( L# g: ?07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万，& i9 s4 j5 \# K: O) l3 u3 L+ l
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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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.3 `# Z2 h. J/ a0 d3 f
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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.& u! y1 q& P; s* f6 S
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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 $262 million target.& p: H) f0 U) o( }4 d8 U- b$ |
" H% {, M4 n; i* }2 ?1 z& WIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.2 _* f- ~8 q( F1 o
* b) y, y; U8 V& c' Y5 C7 I3 XThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.8 H+ U! a+ x7 O+ `5 l& f3 u
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.; [* |4 Z4 I, P& b0 g
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.5 }! D) A9 w" b
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.) Z. b7 o, P, A# c, D
" t" I1 |8 r3 C7 E$ h7 kMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.- L: t) i# j: y/ q
9 r1 o5 e$ h# m H) ], c, YThe 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.8 n& g) s3 [# C
6 K" i* ]0 _+ Y/ a8 M# LMacDonald 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.$ o! X u; b3 x/ Q
( s X: m; E2 ^4 @, aATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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