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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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...

QuickBooks Desktop: Passwords, Encryption, Decryption... Part 1

How much do you think you really know about what is going on beneath the QuickBooks User Interface?

What If: Outlook Isn’t an Option in My QuickBooks Desktop Preferences?

Someone wrote in asking, “I tried to set my QuickBooks Send Forms preference to Microsoft Outlook, but it isn’t even listed as an option. What do I...

Tracking Inventory in Xero

You may not even be using a cloud accounting product, or you might be floating on a different cloud then Xero, but our job is to make you aware of...

Changing QuickBooks Units of Measure – No, No, No!

QuickBooks Desktop, depending on the version you're using, may offer either one or two unit of measure (U/M) options – Single U/M Per Item or...

What IF: My Last Payroll Update Didn’t Install Properly

A reader contacted us asking what to do because QuickBooks was displaying a couple of different payroll errors after the last payroll update...

Average Cost to FIFO - The Potential Impact of Converting

There has been a substantial ‘chatter’ in a variety of forums about inventory valuation irregularities that occur when converting a historical file...

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