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0 a9 _' P8 Y4 N. b07-08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% X7 H, B* X m: j, v1 N
N! |# L5 m; @" y3 UEdmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.+ Z2 ?- z9 c" t) g2 p8 a, d5 x
% o5 ]8 V6 V& W- x& WLiberal MLA Hugh MacDonald, who chairs the 17-member, all-party committee, told Sun Media, “I expect they will have some very direct questions” when representatives of the taxpayer-owned bank appear before them on Wednesday.
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Auditor General Fred Dunn questioned the massive bonuses, given that the bank fell short of its net income goal by nearly 90% in the 2007-08 year.% C- ~4 r: W9 Z9 S: v$ _
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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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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.6 _9 S5 Q. Z7 p; D, t
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake." ~+ `' Z" k' u8 D/ J4 S4 C% |* b
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.6 `* \! X) P, p* T: s: j: C5 j1 y
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.
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MacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.0 I( o5 \0 B6 e9 P5 [4 q" `
`& T5 @5 n$ C6 fThe 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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4 f4 J& ^8 |- @" L$ P% y“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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/ q' W8 M1 _2 z! T2 H* Z `5 TMacDonald 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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