Formula Field in Conversion File

Hi,
I have a scenario where I need to multiply the values of accounts of a particular entity (say entity External "9000", Internal "EntityA"). I have created a Conversion File as shown below
External Internal Formula
9000 EntityA Value*0.371996
Now when I upload the data file using this conversion file the data of 9000 directly goes into EntityA without the formula being applied. Why is that so? What is then the use of the Formula Column?
Thanks,
Prasanth.

Hi Patrick,
I did what you said. I added the following in the options section of the transformation file
CONVERTAMOUNTWDIM=LEGALENTITY
In the Conversion section I already had the reference to the conversion file as follows
Legalentity=entityconversion.xls
I add the second line
Amount=entityconversion.xls
When I process the transformation file with a datafile I get the following error messaga
"Index was outside the bounds of the array"
When I remove the line Amount=entityconversion.xls from the conversion section, the transformation file gets validated succesfully but the Formula value is not getting applied.
Any idea what could be wrong?
Thanks,
Prasanth.

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