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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Looking for an Alternative to QuickBooks Point-of-Sale?

Are you looking for a cloud-based Point-of-Sale solution that integrates with QuickBooks Desktop like QuickBooks Point-of-Sale? Well, good luck.

The QuickBooks Online App for Windows and Mac Users

When parts of this story first ran back in November 2021, we heard a lot about the QuickBooks Online Advanced App during "QuickBooks Connect." During...

Pending Transactions in QB Desktop

I was working with a client recently who made a very simple statement after finishing a transaction posting in QuickBooks Enterprise. The client...

QuickBooks Payments Now Offering Dispute Protection

Intuit's QuickBooks Payments now is offering a new dispute protection program in which charge-backs are automatically forgiven. The program is...

The Basic 1, 2, 3 of QBO-Advanced Spreadsheet Sync

Believe it or not, I have already been looking at preliminary results from our new Top 100 Applications. Just another reason why this year's form is...

2023 Desktop ProAdvisor Certifications Added to Training Portal

QuickBooks Desktop 2023 ProAdvisor Certifications have just been added to the QuickBooks Training Portal. Over the past week or so, Intuit has added...

QB Desktop Weekly: Reclassify Transactions

Editor's Note about QB Desktop Weekly: Mondays will see a change at Insightful Accountant for 2023. Liz now is incorporating video into her "QBO...

What About QuickBooks Card Readers?

Someone wrote in asking about the different types of QuickBooks card readers for use with Payment Services. There are three different ones that are...

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