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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A Deep Dive into NetSuite Accounting

On January 7th (2020) I told you that Insightful Accountant was growing our coverage of products serving the Mid-market and as part of that new...

New Email Error Plaguing QuickBooks Desktop Users of Outlook

QuickBooks Desktop users are inundating QuickBooks technical support with a new round of problems resulting from the sudden inability to send forms...

Revised 'Reclassify Transactions' feature for QBO-Accountant Tools

Intuit has revised the Reclassify Transactions feature available within the QBO-Accountant tools.

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There are several reasons you might see changes posted in the QuickBooks Online Audit Log as System Administration.If you modify an entry that also...

Exporting Data from Sage 50 (US)

A reader wrote in asking how to extract all of their data from Sage 50 (United States version) without having to buy any special tools.  Sage 50...

12 Steps to Manual Payroll in QuickBooks 2018 Desktop

Each New Year a lot of people using QuickBooks try to decide if they are going to renew their 'payroll subscription', or if they can somehow use...

What If: I Need to configure Windows Firewall for QuickBooks

A reader wrote in asking how they should configure the Windows Firewall so that they could use QuickBooks Desktop in multi-user mode on their local...

QuickBooks Basics - Managing Payroll Service Keys

When you purchase QuickBooks Payroll for your QuickBooks Desktop software, you are assigned a 16-digit service key that is specific to your Employer...

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