@NoLongerRecommend 

RE: It's incredible that Intuit refuses to acknowledge that they made a real mess for consultants who have their own Intuit user IDs-passwords, but now often also need their clients' formerly private Intuit IDs-Passwords to open each company file with its own separate ID-password for desktop databases.

Are you saying that if you open a client's file, even using the QB Accountant version, you might be expected to log in using the client's Intuit account?  If so, yea, that's a real mess.

I've been getting regularly prompted to log into client files when I open them, but so far I've just closed the popup prompt and been able to open the files.  I wonder if that will always be the case.