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被政府调查质询
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7 {9 }, `4 Z2 w$ A07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
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06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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- w. O* ` T0 V9 ?1 yEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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# V. n( ]1 Z9 J, @( ] }6 iLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.* ]$ ^8 M; a3 e/ J- @& P- P
1 R2 x( n0 E" d1 L# R: h, DDunn’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.# g* X5 |. v; `
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.5 d" R( n3 N( b. x$ Q) t
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The 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.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south., u0 f. y! {! c7 U: x8 m( [
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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.( B& `: G1 t! m5 p) a" v
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.- U, X( C: U: p/ \ {+ y& A
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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. k4 w0 N) q, e Z! |4 ]& s) T
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“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.! K5 R. g* U. Z% V& _9 v8 W( L& z
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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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