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• Multiple currencies can only be enabled by sending a request to Salesforce customer support. When activated, the Currency Locale field and its value are passed to a new field, which is Corporate Currency, as well as to Company Profile. The corporate currency reflects the currency in which your company reports revenue and is used as the rate that al...
• Only active currencies can be used in currency amount fields.
• The Manage Currencies option appears when your organization has enabled Multiple Currencies, which are currently available by sending a request to Salesforce customer support. Changing the conversion rates will update all existing records with the new conversion rates—even the closed opportunities. As a result, you will not be able to measure finan...
• Updating currency conversion rates will not change the original opportunity amounts; it will only change the converted amounts. Accounts and their associated contacts must use the same default currency. Account and contact records can be imported using active or inactive currencies. However, importing lead records requires the use of active currenc...
• Dated exchange rates are not currently used in forecasting. When Advanced Currency Management is first enabled, your existing exchange rates automatically become the first set of dated exchange rates.