A Fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland, Ronan’s core expertise is with Charities and Not for Profit organisations and mid size organisations. He regularly performs risk reviews, appraises internal controls policies and procedures and reports to those charged with governance.
Ronan has also spent some time abroad in Australia where he worked on a number of high profile charities and not for profit organisations. He also acts as Responsible Individual on a number of our large audit charity clients. Ronan plays a key role in audit succession planning and staff continuity to ensure increased efficiency and control is an integral part of the audit process.
Ronan is also responsible for a portfolio of Credit Union clients covering external audit, internal audit and Risk and compliance outsourced solutions. Ronan has been a regular speaker at RBK Credit Union conferences on Internal audit and Risk and compliance. He has also contributed articles to Credit Union publications and e-zines issued to Credit Union managers.
Ronan holds an International Commerce with French (Hons) degree from University College Dublin and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2002, Ronan joined RBK in 2006 as Audit Manager. Prior to joining RBK, Ronan trained in Grant Thornton and worked after his articles in PWC for a number of years.
RBK Credit Union Benchmarking Survey Results 2024
This report summarises the findings of a survey of Credit Unions conducted in March/April 2024. It reflects responses from 43 Credit Unions and financial data from 74 published annual reports. This represents €11.04b or 57.1% of the total asset size of the Credit Union movement in the State. (The sector asset size was approximately €20.87b across 192 Credit Unions at 30 September 2023).The Credit Unions included in our research range in size from €17m to €570m and represent a mix of both community and industrial Credit Unions. Prior year data has been updated to reflect additional information that became available after our 2023 Credit Union Benchmarking Report was published. Non-financial data in this year’s report refers to the current year to date and includes prior year comparisons where available.RBK Credit Union Benchmarking Report 2024
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Ronan Kilbane, Partner with RBK presented the results of our annual Credit Union Benchmarking Survey at our Credit Union Seminar in May 2024.
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Results from our Annual Credit Union Benchmarking Survey 2023. This report summarises the findings of a survey of credit unions conducted in March/April 2023. It reflects survey responses from 44 credit unions and financial data used from 72 Credit Unions from published annual reports. Sample of Credit Unions represented €10.54b or 51.9% of total asset size of Credit Union movement in the State (sector asset size was approx. €20.3b across 205 Credit Unions as at 30 September 2022). Prior year data has been updated to reflect additional information that became available after our 2022 Credit Union Benchmarking Report was published. Non-financial data in this year’s report refers to the current year to date and includes prior year comparisons where available.
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Ronan Kilbane, Partner with RBK presented the results of our annual Credit Union Benchmarking Survey at our Credit Union Seminar in May 2023.
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The RBK Credit Union Benchmarking Survey Results 2022 were presented by Ronan Kilbane, Partner, RBK at the 2022 RBK Annual Credit Union Seminar.
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Loan book growth continues to be a top priority for both community and industrial credit unions in an environment where declining investment returns are eroding expense to income ratios, according to a survey published today by RBK.
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