The leadership team at Orion Global Logistics decides to realign their corporate accounting calendar. The Salesforce administrator is instructed to change the organization's Standard Fiscal Year start month from January to May within Setup. Which outcome should the administrator expect after saving this change?
- AThe organization is automatically converted to a Custom Fiscal Year structure, permanently disabling standard fiscal year functionality.
- Salesforce automatically recalculates report date ranges and opportunity forecasting quotas based on the newly selected start month.Answer
- CThe administrator must freeze all active user accounts before modifying the setting to prevent data loss during processing.
- DThe change requires updating organization-wide login IP ranges to prevent user logins while the system applies the update.
Answer
Salesforce automatically recalculates report date ranges and opportunity forecasting quotas based on the newly selected start month.
When modifying the start month under Standard Fiscal Year settings, Salesforce updates relative date references across reporting and forecasting automatically. It remains a standard fiscal year without requiring complex migration steps.
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