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大笔投资不赚钱
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被政府调查质询
5 V' b4 g" E2 y这个纳税人拥有的银行
/ B$ b; F, \% k07-08财政年度净收入只有3千万,
# p6 |7 q$ V) l1 E却用2600万给员工发奖金
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; q D; i; x3 u, }, D; }7 T06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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Edmonton — 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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Liberal 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.: s- |/ V" b9 h) M, D# t
V' u( B6 r6 M/ yAuditor 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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! g4 G K1 I" {1 r3 x9 ] FDunn’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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1 u6 J y! D, N0 s& C% o& uIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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5 n C" j0 y: Q6 @0 H4 k$ ZDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.- L' _) i6 o) A N/ s4 Z
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.2 Z( B6 ^8 ^6 l" w% K% Z( K; R/ 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.. j& I8 Z7 L k0 l' N5 C, _, [; ^ M& q
$ H* u* B( Y5 o. R( TATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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$ I9 N1 m' h; t1 P! z“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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; |" I. u1 b' eMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.9 c" K+ E! ^2 X
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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.+ g9 w- e/ R( f; F% h
! C& ^2 P" O8 A" S/ h% x" ^“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.: f# T/ x9 O( x7 A
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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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