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大笔投资不赚钱
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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,
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而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万
- t3 T! j( N+ d! [6 Q06-07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 $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.
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2 Q! P$ Y+ f3 [/ h; uLiberal 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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- i+ ], ]1 N; V9 v/ cAuditor 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 $262 million target.
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. a9 g$ N/ f- `9 hIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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" l' P0 `+ R5 @The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.( ^2 o" ?; C+ F
~" ~; R( n' d: O8 G“If there are no consequences for not achieving objectives, then individuals in GFM are being rewarded for not achieving corporate objectives,” Dunn wrote.. d$ r- x) N8 G7 g& u6 R2 M: `
" W; j& O! N9 d/ D8 fMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.$ z; m. _, R. I' i
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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.
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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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) g- e/ p( M- e0 e. z8 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.9 a3 W8 @$ f* G. }
4 a# R5 ~# @0 d6 VATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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