Your budget book, built from your BS&A data.

Save time with Larsa

Upload your unformatted Excel budget exports and Word narrative content. Larsa produces a beautiful, GFOA-friendly annual budget book in minutes.

You work hard to build a great budget. Larsa makes formatting and publishing it effortless.

Export your budget from BS&A. Larsa reads the chart of accounts, joins it to your budget data, and produces the budget tables you need.

1. What you export

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An unformatted GL export from BS&A

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2. What Larsa produces

Budget tables by fund, department, and any other category you choose, with consistent headers and totals

What’s in a generated book

Front matter summary tables. Showing overall revenues and expenditures by fund, category, and department.

Descriptive graphics.
Optional sankey charts showing flows of revenues and expenditures.

Your department chapters. Department narratives in the correct order, formatted with correct headings based on your selections.

Department budget tables. Automatically generated and placed in the correct chapter, by fund, major category, and program.

How it works

Upload your data to the web module

Data can include:

  • BS&A data exports

  • Personnel information

  • Optional front matter

  • Narrative material

Confirm your departments

Map your BS&A chart of accounts to parent departments that will appear in the book.

Generate and download the budget book file

Double-check that you have all your sections, and generate the book!

Customize your book

Select your own colors, upload your own cover design, and define your fiscal year.

Larsa seamlessly handles tedious production details

Once you’ve configured Larsa, updating your budget data is as simple as uploading a new BS&A export, and re-generating the book as many times as you’d like! Larsa automatically saves previous versions of your book.

Larsa guarantees:

  1. Seamless page-by-page formatting

  2. Internally consistent budget numbers throughout the book

  3. The ability to visually adjust design elements while budget numbers and content remain pre-decisional

Pricing

$10,000 annually

  • Can be used for both proposed and adopted budget production.

  • Eliminates dozens of hours of staff time spent manually editing, formatting, and converting data.

  • Allows local finance directors to spend more time getting the budget content right, and less time making a printable budget book.

Schedule your Larsa Demo today!

Implementing Larsa is easy, and it starts right here.

  1. Schedule a demo

  2. Follow your procurement process

  3. We implement Larsa within 10 business days