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而原计划的净收入目标是2亿6千万1 f* `5 L0 D7 ]" G
06-07财政年度的净收入是2亿七千万. S) b# E) O: F- H7 B- P
+ K: X" i! I j% O% @8 k# g" C- WEdmonton — 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.2 y# z ?7 B8 v7 i/ ]% C p
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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./ O+ |" a! j. a8 N* d8 c
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In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the bank earned a net income of more than $270 million.
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+ @' L/ K6 n' ADunn said management overrode ATB’s policy that bonuses are tied to achieving or exceeding set targets.8 L# L2 R$ g- w* I Y+ S6 r
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The reason given for breaking the rule, Dunn said, was that “staff morale and retention” were at stake.7 K$ ^+ k2 f1 A8 F6 J
' Y. N( O& u6 Y% QThe 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.
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% q9 B8 B2 k8 V- g* i) k7 r7 BMacDonald said that when a government-owned corporation performs poorly, ultimately it’s taxpayers who suffer.. N' c9 @: P1 h v- y7 S
1 F6 [7 w. h; v' K* { O' uThe whole purpose of bonuses is to motivate people to exceed expectations, he said, and giving bonuses when people fail completely defeats that.6 b% a" Z; R% _ p( o+ S/ n0 t
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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.5 k* Z+ Y% k! h, J: K4 y
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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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