By default Impact's document merge merge engine uses standard formatting for currency field in ACT! These field will look formatted as such "$123.1234". You can change the formatting rules globally by modifying a configuration file.
1) Close ACT!
2) Go to START - Durkin Impact v4 -> Durkin.Common.DocEngine
3) Edit the file "Generic.v4.Config.xml" using NotePad.exe
4) Find this section and change the value from {0:c} to {0:c4}
5) Save the changes then restart ACT!