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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
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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.
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, C" U* [4 ]' q( k5 i; Z7 }/ oAuditor 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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/ z6 w( t& R0 VDunn’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 $262 million target./ B4 }0 ^* V" O6 I3 Y1 m$ X7 R
0 d1 [, R% g" O- s* Y! E, o. W2 dIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.% r2 j* V: d# }" m- ^- U. {/ f
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Dunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.
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0 N2 W' h% e" ?( U& s9 k( oThe reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.& w5 O5 v& V H: u- f7 x
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The bank’s rocky ride began last summer, when the market in asset backed commercial paper, a form of short-term financing for business, collapsed.' v- ^* f v5 D2 m$ ]
0 b4 `1 y" p) |& y0 zATB’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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( b; R2 z4 A7 H/ v; wMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.
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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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) f W) Q$ c! ]0 Q- a“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. @$ N$ `' E+ j( e3 C" A
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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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