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大笔投资不赚钱
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, h! }; E6 t0 y+ q, Y* `4 e被政府调查质询
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,7 l* Y% Z( V* N4 c0 n3 m! ~
却用2600万给员工发奖金% R& p/ j( w2 }" C8 H0 a( t4 O& D& w
而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万; s& I# g& U: g: Q4 T4 x+ \- _8 F
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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* z( f- c$ N4 e: P5 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 C+ G, `6 u3 Y) y0 F
0 t3 C! N+ N4 N+ U. hLiberal 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.
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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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& p- ?! V2 N9 `1 K% P, T8 qIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.+ d4 o. Q2 ~# D
! F3 d7 D2 o: J% j# VDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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+ t p% [& j% l! x- A$ [, WThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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! O; V. t( O3 {1 P' W4 I$ {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.1 t" s- T. G: x# O+ `( m( `
# T3 |/ b+ p& e# a8 T- S! W$ k( iATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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5 o9 d1 p/ b- o( S“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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: d5 _ Y; g0 c3 }5 SMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.! @ x: j8 h5 ?0 S* Z7 d7 U
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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.8 B2 B! ]# Y/ U% X
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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: N* @1 Z( g2 d" VMacDonald 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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$ U1 M' Z+ q, F- F) K+ `% Q4 F4 Q/ ?* UATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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