Is it possible to raise the permissions on the change Owner function so that sales reps can not change the owner of an account that is in their name?
1 Answer
If it is a single record being updated you can write a validation rule to disallow specific profiles from updating the owner.
AND(
ISCHANGED(OwnerId),
PRIORVALUE(OwnerId) = $User.Id, /*was the user the old owner?*/
$Profile.Name = 'Sales Rep Profile'
)