Universal Containers is planning to change its fiscal year structure from a standard calendar year to a custom 4-4-5 quarterly structure to align with its financial reporting practices. Before enabling this feature in Salesforce Setup, the System Administrator is asked to present the administrative consequences to leadership. Which key implication should the administrator highlight before enabling Custom Fiscal Years?
- Enabling custom fiscal years is an irreversible action that impacts standard opportunity forecasting and report filtering.Answer
- BCustom fiscal years can be disabled and reverted back to standard fiscal years at any time from Company Information settings.
- CCustom fiscal year definitions can be selectively assigned to specific user profiles while others remain on standard fiscal years.
- DEnabling custom fiscal years automatically freezes all active user accounts until the new fiscal periods are defined.
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Enabling custom fiscal years is an irreversible action that impacts standard opportunity forecasting and report filtering.
Activating Custom Fiscal Years is an irreversible configuration change in Salesforce. Once enabled, the organization cannot return to standard fiscal years, and standard opportunity forecasting, quotas, and standard date filter behavior in reports are affected.
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Custom Fiscal Year Impact and Irreversibility