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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询
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6 ]& V# r$ q$ t: z4 ^07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,! y$ h* Z8 O3 J- L+ o
却用2600万给员工发奖金
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, Z/ u: h w& L U5 i4 z% [06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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9 V* [) m+ x2 p3 REdmonton — 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.0 `: B Y/ F5 e4 p3 d0 Q
3 P: Y9 I. `+ t4 eLiberal 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.5 ?/ I( T/ N. O- `8 U
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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.9 ?* A0 k0 H5 C' y
" }5 i5 ]" }" `4 gDunn’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 $270 million.
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( `1 L& {0 H4 _. ~4 CDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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. M7 v" A P: m* p2 yThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.# @2 D- V/ P; I9 ~3 _1 g
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.: e- M: h: Q7 p9 Q6 b
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.6 U1 ?3 h) e. c. C' a3 z, C
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer. n0 U& t$ L$ p: e
, u6 M& q7 L! z9 ` G9 HThe 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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. }' v- U5 r& a4 h! a& M& o“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.4 h& X( `- T! P
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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.3 Z. Y; w. U& m
7 x1 C2 m8 A; d. C/ qATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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