I agree with original poster.  This has no benefit, only downsides.  To make it worse, we now cannot update QuickBooks from QuickBooks Point of Sale, because users of QBPOS that normally trigger an update at end of day do not and should not have access to QB or Intuit login.  So the software hangs and requires IT resources to "kill" hung QB and QBPOS programs.  SO, I ether DECREASE security by giving more access to additional employees (who otherwise have no need to access QB or Intuit), or your are forcing owner/manager to do what was a simple shared task by other personnel previously.  

And what about PCI compliance?  For merchant processing, my computer should not be "open" to outside, Intuit or otherwise.

Completely non-customer focused.  Intuit should be embarrassed.