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大笔投资不赚钱' N8 P7 |! i4 ?" |6 a9 ~' [5 I
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2亿6千万8 v% c+ }7 ?$ S# _0 h
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万
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4 a w& i$ n! d- {, D9 Q' @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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: p. H; i0 D0 p! {- Z/ w! @/ S5 [0 _" `' [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.: p2 i- I/ Z+ E" ~/ \
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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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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.* S4 w3 a1 @' S- A3 l/ x) h9 I
3 _+ f( G; e& ^& d9 v0 GIn the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.- J/ o/ c% g3 V3 |! W! c) o
9 G, l% R) T( v% q* J7 TDunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.8 g) |9 O8 u3 n
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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.& P- O& b7 {, q7 v
: P- f0 M4 Z2 y' D, z3 FATB’s global financial markets department was dealing heavily in the paper at the time the market went south.
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4 v9 g" F. a s; f; S0 R“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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6 Z- Q. i# O6 P0 P5 oMacDonald 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.! H# v7 t( M/ Q2 @# O
, h+ ^& {7 K( K. j- f; i+ ]“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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