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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金
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07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万4 i l) n3 ~, u
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万& x( f# b3 ^# S6 w3 G- u
* ^8 n: S7 W: l- i# [# G1 oEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.9 r4 F4 h. i$ z" O
+ C8 Q: ~* p2 L! l0 l5 XLiberal 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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K' |# ^8 ~" I, }2 P* W' w) jAuditor 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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X- ]; l4 K7 f% K+ H: ]In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million." Y/ H$ Y; E8 E& p9 A
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.2 ^+ c: \5 Y: ]: R! L7 g
5 m# @) Q( Q; y# x! NThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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6 v% ^, j M' Q4 p7 c F5 EThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.6 Q) T. O! ], w& [ O
. H# l [% U( w( ?, u4 zATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.7 v/ h; r/ q5 f% Y- m. X m: T* ?
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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./ d) `1 w6 W) j/ F; c' |# u6 L
, ?3 k1 V, G" r5 W& Y& Z: dMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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. j1 {; p/ s5 p2 ]4 v0 x* ?5 o9 xThe 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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% T/ n- _6 ^! S2 W“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.- F3 G5 u1 Q, Q! M: t: Z1 ^
' Y9 m+ E8 U& m' G: zMacDonald 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./ G6 h7 I9 S' K8 X+ _
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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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