As always, Intuit misses the point.  We all know it isn't "more secure" to use an intuit account with QuickBooks Desktop.  It was fine the way it was.  I don't need assistance on how to add an account to our file - I want to know how we bypass that and not use it.  The whole point of QBD was to not get involved with the cloud for use - and we don't want to maintain an online list of employees with access to our file - we want to manage it specifically in QuickBooks Desktop and not create intuit accounts for our whole team.  This is not how we want to use this software, and we completely disagree with intuit forcing users to do this (like everyone else on this forum, which now appears to be 100's of people).  Listen to your user base and remove this requirement.