What are containers for grouping actuals or planning values called?

The correct term for containers that group actuals or planning values is "levels." Levels in Workday Adaptive Planning serve as a hierarchical structure allowing users to organize various financial data points or planning metrics. By utilizing levels, organizations can create more nuanced reports and analyses, categorizing information for different scenarios, such as departmental budgets, time periods, or specific projects.

Levels provide the ability to drill down into different aggregated data, enabling users to capture a comprehensive view of their financial landscape. They play a crucial role in structuring data in a way that enhances clarity and insight into performance against plans or actual results, facilitating better decision-making.

The other terms mentioned, such as accounts, models, and metrics, while relevant in the context of financial planning, do not specifically serve the purpose of grouping actuals or planning values in the same structured manner as levels do. Accounts typically refer to specific financial items (like revenue, expenses, or assets), models represent possibly larger frameworks for forecasting or budgeting, and metrics are measurements used to evaluate performance, but none of these provide the hierarchical grouping function that levels do.