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大笔投资不赚钱! k0 w+ x% ^3 N5 u" x0 S
反而发大笔的奖金
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$ f3 A* s7 t* X0 y0 A" d- n07-08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 W: g$ t/ z, L" D- S5 r8 h, @
5 A; O1 n, x$ d* v6 }6 j( m( _Edmonton — Alberta Treasury Branch officials will have to explain why more than $26 million in bonuses were handed out to staff after a year of dismal performance last year, says the head of the province’s public accounts committee.! W4 S6 T+ w; k* k, I$ h
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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.2 @- A* t2 i/ T4 u
4 u3 e: ?4 v: H" B& ~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." c4 d- e! h) h- u( d0 s
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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., C: o8 I) S; i! Z) n& ~( X
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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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: k& y- V* ~% m2 W% T' [Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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6 D9 c5 v6 L, u4 \6 r3 `The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.3 w9 X8 U, w2 H
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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.
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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.. `3 H: }- _0 n7 A4 P
* ^( w& K# U3 X* j* Z+ Y) qMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.4 E5 k p- V" Q4 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.
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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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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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