William Murphy

William (Bill) Murphy, better known as "Murph," is responsible for day-to-day technical content. He is also serves as Administrator for the Top Advisor Awards Program. Murph is an Advanced Certified ProAdvisor with over 30 years of QuickBooks consulting experience. He has more than 45 years of experience in Business, Finance and Public Accounting. For many years Murph was the “anchor” of the National Advisor Network’s online forum (now the Woodard forum) and three-time consecutive winner of the NAN Online MVP award. Murph has published numerous articles in industry publications and served as Technical Editor for Business Analysis with QuickBooks by Wiley Publishing.
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QuickBooks 2018 Desktop: Line Copy & Paste Shortcuts

All versions of the QuickBooks 2018 Desktop product line have new keyboard command to copy and paste transactional rows of data. Even though we...

AI from the Perspective of HAL 9000

On April 2, 1968, "2001: A Space Odyssey" was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Stanley Kubrick’s epic science-fiction film was based on a screenplay...

What If: QuickBooks Payroll Taxes Are Not Computing?

A QuickBooks user asked us: "I have been using QuickBooks Enhanced Payroll for QuickBooks Desktop, and my payroll has been working just find. Today,...

QuickBooks Online Database and API

Two of the courses I'll be teaching this year at "Scaling New Heights" deal with the QuickBooks Online Database in one way or another. One class –...

Simply the Best – Our Top 10 Anti-virus Software

No, I don't have my very own testing lab. I don't have time to test out each and every product that comes out. And no, I don't have anyway to bombard...

What If: I Want to Upload a Logo in QuickBooks Self-Employed?

The number of QuickBooks Self-Employed users is growing quickly. And like other QuickBooks users, they have learned they can ask for stuff....

The Mysterious QBW.TLG file

I have written several articles recently under the banner, "Fracturing QuickBooks Desktop." A couple of those covered the mysteries of passwords,...

What If: I Need to Customize Check Forms in QuickBooks?

A reader wrote in to ask about customizing QuickBooks check forms, which are a type of QuickBooks form not associated with "templates." Fortunately,...

QuickBooks Desktop: Passwords, Encryption, Decryption... Part 2

In Part 1 of his two-part miniseries, Murph examined the fundamental design of QuickBooks files and the concepts used in safeguarding your data. He...

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