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ATB
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反而发大笔的奖金
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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) Y. [; n4 n; @
06-07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.6 t- Q- T1 M1 @ R3 a) R
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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.
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: {* q' j# ]% O0 ^2 ZDunn’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. M8 o, Z7 F1 ^ g: Q) k
* ]# S! v" w9 kIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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7 u! T7 T/ r- gDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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4 T. H# D1 z. _: {" l0 T0 l$ o5 d1 gThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.
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' w9 r0 d9 w- O0 RThe bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.2 }0 @+ q8 B, m1 s5 L% ]
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ATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.& Q0 g5 W+ d4 h+ a* u' X8 L
3 P& }" M7 h4 ]( l% a“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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! V3 L/ |6 w# [# M* UMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.1 D/ c! C0 C& Y5 \1 A
: Q2 z I" R/ o9 S+ h) zThe 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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/ _* m4 l/ G% c# y% j8 t! L0 H' H+ g3 J“We have to make sure our state-owned bank is managed in an efficient and prudent way,” MacDonald said.
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: Z$ A. J: @1 h* {/ Z/ gMacDonald 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.5 z$ G6 T- I0 g" S% j
4 Z+ A. P+ z6 M1 I: cATB, a Crown corporation, has 660,000 customers across Alberta and more than $24 billion in assets. |
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