Financial Reporting for Small Multidivision Company

If you're really small, you might try using Quickbooks or the new Microsoft Office Accounting package. You can easily create departments in either of those, by using the "class" field.

Mircosoft's package is built specically to integrate with the Office products, like Excel and Word.

Can't do CSV files for much though.

Quickbooks has better class management, in that you can create sub-classes, but it doesn't integrate with Excel very well at all.

You might want to hire a CPA, or at least a bookkeeper, even if it's just as a consultant. This is pretty basic fare, really.

Breaking down companies into departments and / or divisions is pretty routine fare.

The Microsoft basic package is free

and there's a free 120 day trial of their "Pro" package, which you'll need to handle classes.

Peachtree is reportedly amazing, but I've never used it.

I'm old fashioned, in that I still prefer to do "simply" in in the chart of accounts....sigh.

Peachtree is very easy to use and integrates well with Excel to prepare reports. Peachtree also uses Crystal Reports. You could have a consultant create exactly the reports you need routinely in Crystal. It is also a good accounting application for exporting CSV (although to go to Excel you don't need to do that). And it is good to accept CSV files if you want to import journal entries vs keying them. It was much easier to do this in Peachtree than it was to use Great Plains Import Manager for Excel. It would bomb out more times than it worked. Buying MS products DOES NOT assure smooth interoperation between products as much as one would think. Great Plains is a product that can run into the tens of thousands of dollars. While it is a good product. For those dollars one would expect more than say from MS's entry level program.

TK